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All of the above plus some 127 occasionally.
For what format(s) do you still use film for?
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Messsucherkamera
Established
35mm (Leica & Nikon)
24x65mm (Hasselblad XPAN II)
5x7 (Deardorff)
24x65mm (Hasselblad XPAN II)
5x7 (Deardorff)
Rodchenko
Olympian
35mm (various) and 120. I hope to get a go with a friend's 5x4 this summer.
Thardy
Veteran
I used up a bunch of B&W a while ago. Now I seem to buy more film than I use. Going on a trip later this spring and will force myself to take a bunch of color film!
thegman
Veteran
I like the cut of your jib, sir.
Get something because it's better, yes, get something because it's newer? No thanks. There is a big difference.
3rdtrick
Well-known
Polaroid packfilm format for me... and yes they are 'Rangefinders' too. Handing someone an instant print is something digital still cannot do. Plus I am really liking the look of the Fuji pack films. Unfortunately I cannot vote for that. I use digital for everything else.
Pete
Pete
Nicollasera
Newbie
I shoot 35mm, 120/220 (mostly 220), 4x5 and 8x10. Trying to build my own 11x14 to start and if that works maybe a 16x20. No digital except for my phone and I just use it to take pictures of my cameras.
goamules
Well-known
I shoot 35mm, 4x5, 5x7, 6 1/2 X 8 1/2, 8x10 film. I make my own film (wetplate collodion) for quarterplate, halfplate, 5x6, 5x7, wholeplate.
Cyriljay
Leica Like
I use 35mm and 6x6 in my film cameras mostly B&W positives and occasionally colour negative . They works better on conceptual photography.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Everything from sub-min (16mm) to 12x15 inch. I've had Minoxes too (9.5mm) but always sent the film out: as a friend who tried it said, "It's like trying to develop a clock-spring."
Just about everyone I know who's tried Minoxes has put VERY few films through them. I had one around 35 years ago and put maybe 3 films through it; when I was first married to Frances (31 years ago) she wanted one, so I bought another and she put 2 films through it. We sold it to a friend and she put maybe 1 film a year through it for a couple of years... They're beautiful and fascinating and fun and all but useless as cameras. I prefer Tessinas (14x28mm), but they're still weird.
Cheers,
R.
Just about everyone I know who's tried Minoxes has put VERY few films through them. I had one around 35 years ago and put maybe 3 films through it; when I was first married to Frances (31 years ago) she wanted one, so I bought another and she put 2 films through it. We sold it to a friend and she put maybe 1 film a year through it for a couple of years... They're beautiful and fascinating and fun and all but useless as cameras. I prefer Tessinas (14x28mm), but they're still weird.
Cheers,
R.
leicapixie
Well-known
In cameras i love..and where strangely no place for memory card.
No digital camera feels like the old ones.
also fabulous lenses.
Digital is always P/S Compacts.
No digital camera feels like the old ones.
also fabulous lenses.
Digital is always P/S Compacts.
pvdhaar
Peter
35mm and 120..
The 35mm is mainly for a film compact, and the 120 for a 6x6 SLR.
The 35mm is mainly for a film compact, and the 120 for a 6x6 SLR.
dpt2014
Established
35mm and medium format here, as well.
Peter_Jones
Well-known
120 and 35mm, at a ratio of about 5:1 in favour of 120 at the moment - I'm seriously considering selling all my 35mm gear, but using the Leicas makes me smile every time I wind the film on or release the shutter.
I'd love a 5X4 Field camera or speed graphic (with the ability to fit a 120 back, 6x7 or 6x9 for instance) - but so far none have come my way
I'd love a 5X4 Field camera or speed graphic (with the ability to fit a 120 back, 6x7 or 6x9 for instance) - but so far none have come my way
PMCC
Late adopter.
35mm, 120 (6x6, 6x7, 6x9) and still the occasional 127 (because 4x4 cameras are so-o-o cool).
unixrevolution
Well-known
I'm everywhere. 110, 35mm, 120, 4x5 and 8x10. The 8x10 camera is still under restoration. The 4x5's are my "going out with the intent to take photographs" cameras and I take my super graphic all over.
I almost always have one 35mm on me, and I carry 120 fairly regularly too. However, I find with my selection of 120 cameras and my digital and large format options, they are the least used of my gear. Still would't trade them though 🙂
I almost always have one 35mm on me, and I carry 120 fairly regularly too. However, I find with my selection of 120 cameras and my digital and large format options, they are the least used of my gear. Still would't trade them though 🙂
bigeye
Well-known
All listed, except 8x10.
35mm is losing to my DSLR, though. To me, SLRs are about being small and fast and never have been about ultimate image quality. Makes sense for digital to take that over. (As is the S100, for pocket carry.)
Still prefer film, though, and shoot medium for premeditated pictures.
- Charlie
35mm is losing to my DSLR, though. To me, SLRs are about being small and fast and never have been about ultimate image quality. Makes sense for digital to take that over. (As is the S100, for pocket carry.)
Still prefer film, though, and shoot medium for premeditated pictures.
- Charlie
Roger Hicks
Veteran
HHPhoto
Well-known
Hi,
I am also one of those who have shoot primarily digital some years ago and have returned to film in the last years.
I am now a 95% film and 5% digital shooter.
About 80% of the film usage is 35mm, and the rest is 4,5x6 and 6x6 medium format.
As I like best quality, and like my pictures big, brillant and impressive 🙂, I am not only using negative film, but also using a lot of reversal film (color and BW) and project it with a slide projector on a big screen.
In this field film really shines and is absolutely unsurpassed. Digital cannot compete at all in projection. I've tested all the latest beamers and they simply suck:
Because of their extremely low resolution (1 - 4 MP) and the bad color reproduction.
In projection 35mm film very clearly surpasses all the D800E and 5DmkIII + Beamer combinations (which are of course all limited by the extremely low beamer resolution).
The quality of the modern slide films in combinations with the best projection lenses is absolutely breathtaking.
A good projection lens (Leica Super Colorplan, Zeiss P-Sonnar, Rollei Apogon, Docter Optics MC-B etc.) is even delivering much higher resolution than the best 8000 ppi drum scanners can give (we've tested that several times).
35mm slide projection is already a league of its own.
And then you also have medium format slide projection.......if you have seen this, then you will become a slide projection junkie, no doubt at all .....😀 :angel:
Cheers, Jan
I am also one of those who have shoot primarily digital some years ago and have returned to film in the last years.
I am now a 95% film and 5% digital shooter.
About 80% of the film usage is 35mm, and the rest is 4,5x6 and 6x6 medium format.
As I like best quality, and like my pictures big, brillant and impressive 🙂, I am not only using negative film, but also using a lot of reversal film (color and BW) and project it with a slide projector on a big screen.
In this field film really shines and is absolutely unsurpassed. Digital cannot compete at all in projection. I've tested all the latest beamers and they simply suck:
Because of their extremely low resolution (1 - 4 MP) and the bad color reproduction.
In projection 35mm film very clearly surpasses all the D800E and 5DmkIII + Beamer combinations (which are of course all limited by the extremely low beamer resolution).
The quality of the modern slide films in combinations with the best projection lenses is absolutely breathtaking.
A good projection lens (Leica Super Colorplan, Zeiss P-Sonnar, Rollei Apogon, Docter Optics MC-B etc.) is even delivering much higher resolution than the best 8000 ppi drum scanners can give (we've tested that several times).
35mm slide projection is already a league of its own.
And then you also have medium format slide projection.......if you have seen this, then you will become a slide projection junkie, no doubt at all .....😀 :angel:
Cheers, Jan
ibcrewin
Ah looky looky
I'm on 35mm film. I've been picking up various cameras that are in 35mm so that's been the bulk.
UNTIL>.. I found a spiral for my 120 film.. So I souped up a roll from the old lubitel I had put off since I didn't have one for the longest time. That in turn inspired me to do something about the Ansco Viking with the leaky bellows. I ended up cutting out some of that black out plastic the paper comes in and wrapping up the bellows. Doesn't fold so hot, but I can get 6x7 shots.
Here's what's loaded.
Bessa R - 35mm tmax 400
Olympus Mju1 - 35mm bw400cn
Canon elan - 35mm tri-x
Ansco viking - 120mm fuji provia.
UNTIL>.. I found a spiral for my 120 film.. So I souped up a roll from the old lubitel I had put off since I didn't have one for the longest time. That in turn inspired me to do something about the Ansco Viking with the leaky bellows. I ended up cutting out some of that black out plastic the paper comes in and wrapping up the bellows. Doesn't fold so hot, but I can get 6x7 shots.
Here's what's loaded.
Bessa R - 35mm tmax 400
Olympus Mju1 - 35mm bw400cn
Canon elan - 35mm tri-x
Ansco viking - 120mm fuji provia.