The Cold is Stirring Things Up.

SELF | Jan 16,2009 | swampsniper

[maine-iac7]

Panasonic FZ30 with an Olympus TCON 17 Tele lens.

OHHHHHhhhh

_{note to self: it's not good to envy}

[Westlander]

When you spit and it freezes and crackles upon hitting the ground, it’s at least -30F, that’s real F temp and not windchill. Class dismissed.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Not sure where the 33 number came from on this thread.

It was -29 this morning...right here...86 hours below zero.

Keeps the riff-raff out.....

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"Film or digital? I have to know as I am a purist".

Digital. About 50 years ago I messed with Kodak TriChem packs and little round tanks and pans and red lights and all that other stuff, no way will I do that now, I ain't gonna live long enough, LOL! I can shoot to my hearts content and a bad shot doesn't cost me the same as a good one, film is too expensive to waste, for a Po' Boy like me! Kodak is almost out of the film business, just a matter of time and it will be extinct.

[maine-iac7]

Brrrrrr...it’s been over 70 for the last week out here and I like it.

[PLMerite]

Man, it’s going down to +3 degrees tonight. The Kee-Kee birds are out for sure.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I figure it will hit mid 20s here, that’s enough! Maybe ALGORE will freeze his globals off!

[blackbart.223]

"Kodak is almost out of the film business, just a matter of time and it will be extinct."

And that is a shame. Kodak made two of the best films I ever worked with. Ektar 25 in color and Technical Pan in black and white. I do landscapes and nothing was better than those two. A little difficult to work with due to the slow speed of the film but they produced fantastic results.

[maine-iac7]

Digital. About 50 years ago I messed with Kodak TriChem packs and little round tanks and pans and red lights and all that other stuff, no way will I do that now, I ain't gonna live long enough, LOL! I can shoot to my hearts content and a bad shot doesn't cost me the same as a good one, film is too expensive to waste, for a Po' Boy like me! Kodak is almost out of the film business, just a matter of time and it will be extinct.

LOL - I fought the switch over for years - but getting film and chemicals got to be too hard - and I gotta admit, I don't miss the darkroom...I'm a portrait artist - gave away my old Rolliflex but still have my Pentax K-100 with lens/wide angle/zoom that was my workhorse for newspaper work, and my mother's and aunt's Kodaks from the early 1900's...with the bellows. Wish I had mama's old Brownie Box tho' - she took great pics with that...I still love black and white for portraits.

And now my daughter is doing B & W portraits and one of my granddaughters has "The Eye" - 100 years of camera bugs in the family...

[tabor]

Somebody who knows Whitefield! Have spent a fair bit of time up there, where stepmother and stepsister live. Didn’t realize it was -40. Yikes!
Love swampsniper’s threads:)

[SWAMPSNIPER]

It’s still what you want to put in to the effort, no matter what you shoot. You just have to want every shot to be better than the one before, and don’t let the failures get you down. I see a lot of people spend a lot of money on cameras, then find out that there is a learning curve involved, and sell the camera or put it in a drawer. The popular misconception now seems to be that a lot of megapixels will guarantee great pictures, all that is guaranteed is BIG pictures, LOL. I can make decent 8X10 prints with my old Olympus C2100UZ with 2.1 MP, if I take a decent pic to begin with. Also, a camera is only obsolete when it is stone dead, this years model isn’t sure to take better pics than last years model.

[blackbart.223]

" I fought the switch over for years - but getting film and chemicals got to be too hard - and I gotta admit, I don't miss the darkroom...

Some of the best stuff came from a darkroom. Remember Ansell Adams?

[aruanan]

Also, a camera is only obsolete when it is stone dead, this years model isn’t sure to take better pics than last years model.

One interterm I checked out an old range finder 35mm Leica from school for a trip to Mexico. I didn't even have a light meter. I just set it according to the film package (Kodachrome), underexposed by half a stop, and got really, really beautiful slides.

[aruanan]

Some of the best stuff came from a darkroom. Remember Ansell Adams?

I miss the smell of fixer and Ilfobrom paper.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Neat photos!

[blackbart.223]

"Also, a camera is only obsolete when it is stone dead, this years model isn’t sure to take better pics than last years model."

I couldn't agree more. I just miss some of my favorite films.

[blackbart.223]

"I miss the smell of fixer and Ilfobrom paper."

It is an art form. What else can I say.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“Is there a digital Canon camera on which I can attach/use the assorted lenses I have for my Canon T-50?”

If you know: I know that there are some (obviously the bigger) digi-cameras that can take SLR film-camera lenses; but are these truly direct interchange; in the sense that yes, they will bayonet or screw onto the new digi-camera, but don’t they also require a factory (or technician) adjustment for back focus (eg; to accomodate the different distance to the “taking” surface)?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Some DSLRs have a sensor the same size as a 35mm film frame, and the lenses should work. Am I sure, nope, but I’ve heard of a lot of folks using older 35mm lenses. Lenses are so expensive that it might be worth having them fitted. Lens expense is the main reason I don’t shoot a DSLR, I just can’t afford it.

[maine-iac7]

Some of the best stuff came from a darkroom. Remember Ansell Adams?

As a matter of fact, quite familiar - I lived in Carmel-By-The-Sea in the late 70's (population 5,000) He had a gallery there then -