An ad for a film camera on TV! Vivitar's back...

[imokruok]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/08/vivitars-new-full-frame-35mm-film-camera/

What a piece of garbage. Two cameras and film for the low price of $10. 🙄

 

[pevelg]

LOL. I was just about to start a new thread on this..... I was going to title it: "The death of Leica."

 

[wolfpeterson]

I remember seeing a thread a while back discussing a lab's development boom. Older people were buying up high end film P&S because good images were easier and more reliably achieved than on a digital camera. And no need to flick 10 dials to get what you want. Not saying that this vivitar is high end of course...

But as much as this ad makes me cringe, we still have our grannies/grampies or mom/dad to thank for keeping our labs alive! 😀

 

[Pickett Wilson]

Since I'm 60 years old, I know a lot of grannies, and they all shoot digital. We aren't all knitting on the porch or making wooden toys in our workshops! 🙂

 

[NathanJD]

I watched this in work so i had no sound and the tag line that appears half way through saying "real photos" got me chuckling 😀 is that as opposed to all these fake Photos taken this last decade or so? 😀 i love it! and if it contributes to the longevity of lab processing then i take my hat off. will i be buying one? um... no.

 

[Krosya]

Funny or Not, Garbage or Not, but truth is that Many film P&S cameras will take better photos and do it easier that many digital P&S cameras. And I agree with the idea that looking at ACTUAL photos in your hand or a photo album is a lot more fun that on a computer screen. I often look through my old travel slides and photos and not so much digital ones. And I'm not even close to 60 years old. YMMV.

 

[pvdhaar]

Funny or Not, Garbage or Not, but truth is that Many film P&S cameras will take better photos and do it easier that many digital P&S cameras....

Completely agree.. Especially the autofocus performance has taken a nosedive.

Film point and shoots have active IR systems that can focus on a black cat in a coal cellar. Try to do that with slow poke contrast detection running on the imaging chip.. even ordinary indoors scenes make my Coolpix digicam struggle to the point where it can't even take a bloody picture! :bang:

 

[oftheherd]

Completely agree.. Especially the autofocus performance has taken a nosedive.

Film point and shoots have active IR systems that can focus on a black cat in a coal cellar. Try to do that with slow poke contrast detection running on the imaging chip.. even ordinary indoors scenes make my Coolpix digicam struggle to the point where it can't even take a bloody picture! :bang:

I prefer film to digital for most applications. But to be honest, there are digital cameras with IR focusing at close distances.

I was surprised last weekend at my local CVS. I was there to pick up some film and saw a woman (a very young grandma if she was one) come in and study for a minute, then pick up one of CVS's boxed P&S cameras. The very basic ones without auto-focus. Everyone in the store rushed up front to applaud and cheer. Well, not really. I doubt anyone but me paid any attention.

 

[ray*j*gun]

The ad does sort of suck...... but the issues are real. My wife just went on a trip and bought a disposable film camera with a flash (I know its heresy) but was thrilled when she got 36 large prints with zero hassle. Now she's asking to borrow some of my gear....argggg.

Whatever it takes lets keep film in the public eye.

 

[degruyl]

The ad does sort of suck...... but the issues are real. My wife just went on a trip and bought a disposable film camera with a flash (I know its heresy) but was thrilled when she got 36 large prints with zero hassle. Now she's asking to borrow some of my gear....argggg.

Whatever it takes lets keep film in the public eye.

I was going to make this comment. Well, not the part about the wife.

Disposable cameras are often good enough for vacation / snapshot photography. And at least the color hassles are someone else's problem. Also, fixed focus has the benefit of not screwing up what it is focusing on, and complete lack of exposure control has the benefit of usually being right.

 

[scorpius73]

My mother in law gave me 8 SD cards full of images to save to DVD's for her. When she loads the card full of images. She just buys a new card. She never loads them onto her computer or anything. I told her a film camera may be better for her. She looked at me like I was crazy.

 

[wolfpeterson]

My mother in law gave me 8 SD cards full of images to save to DVD's for her. When she loads the card full of images. She just buys a new card. She never loads them onto her computer or anything. I told her a film camera may be better for her. She looked at me like I was crazy.

Tread lightly with this one 😀

 

[ampguy]

well

well

I think you're nuts 😀

My mother in law gave me 8 SD cards full of images to save to DVD's for her. When she loads the card full of images. She just buys a new card. She never loads them onto her computer or anything. I told her a film camera may be better for her. She looked at me like I was crazy.

 

[imokruok]

My mother in law gave me 8 SD cards full of images to save to DVD's for her. When she loads the card full of images. She just buys a new card. She never loads them onto her computer or anything. I told her a film camera may be better for her. She looked at me like I was crazy.

I know some people who treat memory cards this way too. They don't take many pictures, so they treat them like film - basically single use with the option to delete an unwanted image. Problem is, these same people expect them to retain data like film, but today's solid state memory cards simply don't.

 

[oftheherd]

I know some people who treat memory cards this way too. They don't take many pictures, so they treat them like film - basically single use with the option to delete an unwanted image. Problem is, these same people expect them to retain data like film, but today's solid state memory cards simply don't.

Well, film won't forever either, but likely longer than SD cards.

 

[scorpius73]

Tread lightly with this one 😀

I just did as I was told. :angel: