Road and Track using the Pentax K1000!

I bought a K1000 for my son in 1986, the meter went out in 2017. He wanted to know about a repair. I said no I'll buy you another: $65 (body). Great camera for that kind of trip: just throw it in the back seat, no case, and you are off.
 
I was hoping they'd say why they shot with such a camera, unless it ties into the "1000 miles" thing somehow. Were the batteries dead on the staff photographer's DSLR?
 
css9450 said:
I was hoping they'd say why they shot with such a camera, unless it ties into the "1000 miles" thing somehow. Were the batteries dead on the staff photographer's DSLR?
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The writer is a young kid who is a web editor for the magazine.
Young peeps are into film cameras, it's only old geezers that like digicams.
He made this different and entertaining, no matter how, umm, "different" some of his film shots are.
They remind me of my bad old days when I had to rely on 1 hour film dev places..
 
I stopped at half of it after seining same modified beetle and few interesting shots in between. It looks like expired film to me.
 
Huss said:
Well, this is a change! Using a Pentax K1000 to cover a story.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/g32141832/2019-porsche-panamera-gts-road-trip-review/
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Interesting editorial choice, and certainly great to see film used in popular media. Not sure I'm sold on the results though, perhaps reinforcing the truism that using film doesn't make you a good photographer...

charjohncarter said:
I bought a K1000 for my son in 1986, the meter went out in 2017. He wanted to know about a repair. I said no I'll buy you another: $65 (body). Great camera for that kind of trip: just throw it in the back seat, no case, and you are off.
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A bit OT, but the 'replace rather than repair' attitude is so frustrating. These bodies aren't being made any more and never will be again - once they're gone they're gone... A CLA isn't expensive, help keep them on the road people!
 
For anyone that remembers Car & Drivers’ Brock Yates and the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, earlier this month three guys in an Audi A8L equipped with additional gas tanks left the Red Ball Garage on E. 31st Street in Manhattan and arrived at the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach, California twenty six hours and thirty eight minutes later. They cited the lack of traffic due to the shutdown for their record time.
 
Car Magazine from the 70s to the 90s said everything that could be said about the use of colour film to take exquisite photos of cars. But then they were pros with decades of experience. This says nothing to me other than its the film camera equivalent of snaps on your iphone. But that's car journalism nowadays.
 
css9450 said:
Either that, or corner-drugstore machine-prints.
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I think this is exactly what this new generation expects from film :)


My one young co-worker was very keen to try film. For the start (before trying own development) he started with the professional lab. When he got first scans he was very disappointed, he told me. The reason for this was - "it was too close" to digital, meaning no scratches, light leaks, fogging or other imperfections which is the signature of film for them :)
 
In the early 90's I taught photography for one year at the local alternative high school in the Blue Ridge Mts of Virginia. I checked out the classroom a few days before the school started classes. In the storage closet were 7 K1000's with 50/2 lens. Gold!! I knew this would be fun.
 
css9450 said:
Either that, or corner-drugstore machine-prints.
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I'd be quite happy if I could get prints of that quality from the corner drugstore. They're much worse here, even at this small size, if cheap and still readily available.

To me, some of these pictures are pretty nice. If they're a bit snapshot-y, that certainly fits the road trip narrative better than your typical high gloss car photography. To me it looks like they were post processed to make the blue car pop.
 
Huss said:
Well, this is a change! Using a Pentax K1000 to cover a story.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/g32141832/2019-porsche-panamera-gts-road-trip-review/
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That's cool.

My dad bought me a K1000 in the '80s but it was unfortunately lost in a flood ten years later. I loved that camera. Fast forward to 2019 and my dad showed me his camera, an identical K1000 that he bought when he purchased mine. I had no idea he had one! He gave me his kit which is perfectly preserved with receipts, accessories, manuals, etc. A little time capsule from 1985. It's my sentimental favorite now and I love using it.
 
jawarden said:
That's cool.

My dad bought me a K1000 in the '80s but it was unfortunately lost in a flood ten years later. I loved that camera. Fast forward to 2019 and my dad showed me his camera, an identical K1000 that he bought when he purchased mine. I had no idea he had one! He gave me his kit which is perfectly preserved with receipts, accessories, manuals, etc. A little time capsule from 1985. It's my sentimental favorite now and I love using it.
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Nice! What a great story.

As for the R&T thing, it obviously was intentional to have the images look like snapshots. And it makes it fun, different from their run of the mill stuff.
 
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