TSB Photography Geek film camera edition

[Frog]

The current thread from Studog telling us that he is going into full-time "picking" made me wonder if any of our photo geeks are geeky enough to play with film cameras?
Though I have a few in my collection, I don't use 'em, but my brother does. He repairs and deals, and teaches.
So, when I see deal, I usually snatch 'em up for him. (I'm a bit of a picker and garage saler as well)
Last Thursday, I happened upon an odd-day garage/moving sale and picked up a box for $20.
It included a Pentax K1000 - the classic simple workhorse, an Olympus OM-1, an OM-10, and a funky junky plastic Rebel EOS-X which has an EF 50-80 lens that will fit our digital stuff. This camera still appears to be available, but perhaps it's just NOS.
Also, some Tamron long telephoto lens and some sort of adapter.

[Sbrem]

I loved my Pentax K1000, it taught me all the basics, moved up to a SuperME, had auto exposure, and now I have Pentax K100D, but time to move up to more MP's...

Steve

[jvanick]

someplace in a dark corner of a closet in my house I have my first 'real' film camera... an old canon FTb and a handful of FD lenses.

[blue moon]

still have my EOS 630, the third of the EOS cameras released back in the late 80's. I keep thinking it will be worth something as a collectors item, but alas, I think they sell for $30 or so. Maybe in another 20 years.
I sold my medium format camera, just in time few years back. 'thought I'd keep using it as it was medium format, but was just too expensive to use. Other than that, it's been digital only since the Canon D10 back a little over 10+ years ago.

pierre

[Command-Z]

I still have and use two Canon AE-1s for archaeological recording projects. Most sites are shot with both digi camera and BW film, which has a certain archival shelf life of over 100 years if processed properly.

In the field, I carry a 28-70mm zoom, a 24mm prime for wide angle and a 200mm prime for tele shots. I still love this gear, so small and well-built when compared to the DSLR gear. Everything fits in the pockets of a photo vest when scrambling over rocks to get to rock-art sites.

I miss analog gear, but I don't miss film.

I also have an adapter ring set that allows me to reverse-mount my old Canon FD-Mount lenses to my EOS DSLR for low-tech macro shooting. I put that 24mm on there and get super macro with the smoothest bokeh you've ever seen. You have to set everything manually, of course, and focus by moving the camera. Lighting has to be great as well, since with that wide of a lens, you're almost touching the subject. But a fun and cheap way to get extreme close-ups.