I was cleaning out my closets and discovered my two 35mm point-and-shoot cameras. I realized I haven't used either since a trip to Hawaii in 2002. Seems a shame - one of them my mom gave to me for my birthday about 2000 (just before the digital boom). Its an http://www.amazon.com/Olympus-Stylus-Epic-QD-CG/dp/B000021YU8 and took really good photos for an auto 35mm. I look at them and ones from my current digital and they still are better. Kind of gives me the itch to buy some film and shoot a couple rolls. It was sort of fun opening that package of processed pictures after developing (although digital sure is handy and cheap). Do any of you guys still use film cameras?

I used an old SLR film camera (20 years old at the time) for a photography class. It was really fun to develop my own photos, but less fun trying to find black and white film.

I love shooting and developing in film. There's something about it that beats digital any day. Maybe it's the excitement of submerging the paper in the solutions and watching my photograph emerge, or something. Whatever it is, I like it. Unfortunately though, I don't have a film camera with me here at university.

I found the most thrilling aspect was when you were prepping to expose the photo paper. Having to focus in everything was just fun for some reason.

I've got a 30 year old Pentax that hasn't seen the light of day in about 20 years. I've got it...somewhere.

Damn. Now I'm going to have to go searching. <_<

I still use my Canon AE-1. I'm your average hobbyist, but mostly, I use it to take celestial time-elapsed photos.

I have a SLR lying around that I bought for photo class a while back. I too loved developing the film/photos by hand, but sadly I've graduated and my house doesn't have a dark room.

I have another Olympus thats 25+ years old. Its an http://www.kenrockwell.com/olympus/xa.htm and had a really high quality glass lens for a compact camera. A relative passed it along to me and from what I understand its something of a collector's item now. I never got the hang of using it consistently well. Some shots were absolutely spectacular (as in magazine quality). Unfortunately most were pretty poor - I just don't know what I'm doing.

A what now?

I have an old Minolta XE-7. Not even going to bother looking for film. I wouldn't even know where to get the film developed these days. I'm happy with digital.

still have my old mamaya bought in the 80′s,was slightly old even then,and have everything still in my photobag stashed away in a storageroom.
as others said,hopeless to get film for it, and I don′t have access to a dark room nowadays anyway.
last time it got used was sometime in the 90′s.

Nikon FM2. I nicked the lens off that to use on the D70 body.

I still have my Nikon F3H that I used in a Photography class during undergrad. I would probably use it more if I had a darkroom available.

My wife claims she will still use hers, but it hasn't been borken out in a few years. If we go on a vacation she might because she has a macro and another lense for it. I can't remember if our digital camera can take lenses....

No not anymore. We used to get disposable ones for a long time but we never had an SLR or anything. I used an old film SLR when I was in photography class at school and didn't like it. I'm used to a digital camera with a preview screen where you can change the exposure and other settings through menus. The pictures came out blurred and too dark because I set them wrong. I had to take new photos with a roll of film I had to pay for. I did like developing the photos in the dark room though that was fun. Using different chemicals and sponges to make different effects was great.

I have a Canon F-1 SLR and a case full of additional lenses, filters and other accessories. Its in good shape even though it has been through a few conflicts such as UN peacekeeping operation in Israel in the eighties.

Very fun camera to shoot albeit its massive weight compared to modern DSLR like my Canon 1000D.

I have an old Pentax 35mm camera that I bought used, but I haven't used it in months at least. My wife and I have ended up using her digital camera instead. It's amazing how many more photos you can take with a digital, and without the fuss of loading and unloading the film, and sending it to be developed. I've considered buying myself a digital camera also, but I haven't decided yet how badly I want one.

We went digital in the mid-nineties. Very rudimentary and cumbersome compared to modern digital cameras. I haven't used a film based camera since 1998.

The older quality 35mm cameras are built like a tank, compared to today's quality cameras. No sense in making them too good I suppose. They will be obsolete in 5 years anyway. Industry learns these things....and they want to sell you a new one someday soon.

Oh yeah. I still have my Pentax, a 120 Holga, and a 4x5 Maxwell House pinhole from college. 99% of what I do is B&W in IR and selenium toned on archival paper. As cheap and convenient as digital photography is, it's yet to accomplish the same longevity of traditional processes.





K1000? If so you'll have a camera for life. Those things are nearly as tough as a Leica. Dig it out from "somewhere" and have some fun.