What to do with 35MM cameras?
Is there any market for 35mm cameras now that digital cameras are so cheap and affordable? I have two 35mm cameras and I hate to just throw them out, I never use them anymore, I always grab the digital when I want to take some photos. Maybe in 20 or 30 years they will be worth something, you'll see me on the Antiques Road Show getting them appraised!
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quote:Originally posted by Chris8161
Is there any market for 35mm cameras now that digital cameras are so cheap and affordable? I have two 35mm cameras and I hate to just throw them out, I never use them anymore, I always grab the digital when I want to take some photos. Maybe in 20 or 30 years they will be worth something, you'll see me on the Antiques Road Show getting them appraised!
I have one and I store it well. Mine is nothing fancy (Pentax SP1000, fore-runner to the K1000 and older than I am) but a right little work-horse. I believe it will be worth something, someday.0 -
Chris
What do you have?
I have an old Minolta with a few different lens and would love to find another good 35 mm.
I believe that the only thing that will truely kill the 35's is the manufacturers stop making film for them.
The best camera that I have ever owned was when I was in the military in the early 80's. It was a small Pentax that had interchangeable lens and all of the bells and whistles of a full sized 35 mm. But it used 110 film. It always amazed me that the photos were as good of quality as even the best 35mm at the time. It got stolen out of the car in 1989 and I have yet to see/find another like it. That is something I would love to do.
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Here's a link to the Pentax System 10 I had along with the lens if anyone comes across one for sale or being given away..
http://www.cameraquest.com/pentx110.htm
Please let me know..0 -
I wish I still had one...I prefer them over digital, but I have not had one in several years... 0 -
spurge, i have the same one, but it is needing some serious help
have been looking for one with the same features but the price is WAY outta my reach
i worked mine hard, and then my sis borrowed it for vacation and it came back a mess, must have gorren wet and i didnt know it till i got it back out several months later[:(!]0 -
I have a great digital camera, but I still use my 35mm quite often. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by oldemagics
spurge, i have the same one, but it is needing some serious help
have been looking for one with the same features but the price is WAY outta my reach
i worked mine hard, and then my sis borrowed it for vacation and it came back a mess, must have gorren wet and i didnt know it till i got it back out several months later[:(!]
LOL. What features? I think I have the model number correct. The one I have is full manual and you have to turn the light meter on manually (that's the big difference between the sp1000 and the k1000) before each shot. What it does have is an AWESOME lens.
Sorry about yours though. It's really difficult to find a bare-bones 35mm, and has been for at least fifteen years.
Edit: I also really like that the focus feature doesn't have the split image, but rather a prismatic thingy that shimmers until the image is in focus.0 -
I think it'll be good for a good long time. The big deal will be if film can't be found for it.
I was given a bell and howell 126 camera; American made, still works like a champ. Solid metal. The problem is that there are two companies that make film for it, one is like in Romania and the other is in canada. Costs a fortune....0 -
quote:Originally posted by Chris8161
Is there any market for 35mm cameras now that digital cameras are so cheap and affordable? I have two 35mm cameras and I hate to just throw them out, I never use them anymore, I always grab the digital when I want to take some photos. Maybe in 20 or 30 years they will be worth something, you'll see me on the Antiques Road Show getting them appraised!
Cutiegirlracing is in the market for a new camera since she sunk her old one. glub, glub!0 -
I donated mine to the local high school! They are always in need of stuff! 0 -
I am hanging onto mine like a model T[8D][;)]
I also have an Argus 35mm form 1940. State of the art at the time.0 -
35mm's are by no means outdated. There are still a lot of people out there who swear by them because they have make more permenant picture. If the power goes out, you can't look at any of your digital pictures, unless you've had them all printed out. 0 -
Still keep/use my Elan - can't beat it for time lapse, etc. 0 -
I still have my Minolta XGA (?) from the early 80s and will be keeping it. Parts for the 35mm are getting expensive - for the price of the zoom lens I like, I got me a new digital camera with 28mm-504mm instead. 0 -
Konica, I still have one body, and a bag full of german ground optics, up to 400 mm, dedicated flash and various stuff.
Checked out e-bay similar cameras selling for $40.00,I will throw it all into a lake before I sell it for peanuts. I live 40 minutes from kodak plant, film is still available but getting harder to find black and white, even harder to get b&w processed. I really miss the power winder and shutter just slamming away. I might just get it all out and put fresh batterys in it all, and go out and shoot up some film.0 -
Film is pretty much dead. It is really beyond dying at this point and is in its last throws and death rolls. I don't even know any professional photographer that haven't gone digital.
However, If anyone is interested, I have a like new Nikon N65 SLR with original box and everything (no lense - I use it with my Nikon digital SLR D70s). SUPER CHEAP! (lol - they are worthless)0 -
What has greatly influenced the switchover to digital VS film (beside being convienent to use and print pictures) is the improvement in resolution in the newer digital cameras. When digital first came out, the images were limited to a small size, and if you wanted to blow one up, you ended with a grainy poor-quality image. Now, we are able to shoot high resolution images with digital and end up with a nice sharp image. I, personally, don't see a bright future for "film" because of this. [:(] Even some full length feature movies are now being shot with pure digital cameras.[:)] 0 -
I'd give anything to have my Cannon A1 back. Can't afford a high end digital to get away from the, for lack of a better word, 'shutter-lag' that my low end digital has. 0 -
spurge yopu got the model right, sp1000.
when i got mine 1000 was unheard of and people wondered what i needed a camera that fast for.
till they saw wheel standers frozen forever up-right at the drags, and with held shutters at night with the car in focus but a 1/4 mile spark trail...
the built in meter is gone, somehow the bottom is bent and the battery cover wont screw on right...there was something else but i dont remember right now without digging it out.
and i loved that camera!<br>slipgate, what features, price etc.?0 -
One of my jobs on the plane was inflight photograper when we were rigging Soviet ships or subs. This was in the early eighties and I was issued a Bessler Topcon 35mm SLR with a 50mm lens. Big and bulky, I asked intel if I could buy my own gear (and get an employee business expense-[;)]).
After getting permission, I went to the Pony Store outside Yokota Air Base and bought a Pentax MX, 135mm lens, a powerwinder, and a databack. It was used to good effect and I got a few Lensmaster awards for excellence in photography.
Over the years, I aquired a spare body, more lens, tons of filters, and the rest of the stuff. A digital doesn't teach you anything about lighting, depth of field, composition, or shutter speed like a film camera. Darkrooms are very unforgiving places with only limited ability to rescue a photo. I really forsee digital cameras making everyone, even professionals, lazy and sloppy in their picture-taking. Anyone I teach photography will learn with a manual film SLR.0 -
send'em to me [:D] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by thesneakyrussian
send'em to me [:D]
Sorry, all were Offical Navy Photographs and classified. I got lots of merchants though I could keep, mostly Maru's or Hyundai automobile transports.[:D]0 -
I was a professional photographer for a while in the seventies. I have Minolta outfit, started with the classic SRT 101, it conked out on me, a few years after the horse I was riding fell into the river in British Columbia, and the camera got full of ice water.
So I got the Minolta XGM, the automatic camera. Always liked the old 101 better.
I have a bunch of Minolta lenses, filters, battery powered auto winder, etc. About $1,500 worth, back in the day. Also had my own darkroom, with a Beseler 23C enlarger with Dual Dichro color head. Thank God, I sold that ten years ago, and got got $500 for it, today that Beseler would be worth 40 bucks if you were lucky.
I am dismayed to learn of the current status of the old film cameras. There is a great old photography store here in Asheville, this is where the old cameras go to die. They have shelves full of used Canon AE1s, Olympus OM10s, Minolta SRT101s, and lots of Nikons. You can get a complete Nikon outfit for $200, but nobody will buy the stuff. This place makes all their money on digital stuff.
Do you know that the Minolta company is out of business? And Nikon doesn't even make film cameras any more, except for one very expensive model?
However, I have taken some slides and black and white and color photos down there, and they have made me some great prints, all using digital technology.
Also, they told me that they will develop your film, color or black and white, and take the negatives or slides, and using digital tech make prints.
So, this would be a good solution for y'all die hard film guys, find a store like this one. They develop your slides or negatives, then put all the photos on a disc, then they can do anything you could want in the way of a print, and the quality is top notch. If you would look at my thread, "Riding the freight trains: Photos," those black and white photos were digitalized by these guys, the prints they made for me are better than the original prints I made thirty years ago, I am not sure how they did that.
The old film cameras are as dead as disco, and valuable only as memories, or museum pieces. Makes me very sad.
If you have a little john boat, that old Nikon will make a great boat anchor.0 -
I have a decent 35mm, a Pentax that retailed for $650 or so. Not super high end but not an el cheapo either.
I have a Fuji 3.2 megapixel camera that I got for $160 when 3.2 mp was pretty much the standard.
The Fuji takes better pictures outdoors, if I have prints printed. The colors are sharper, edges are better.
OTOH, the Pentax still wins out easily for indoor pics or night pictures- load up with 1000 or faster film and away you go.
Ergo, both still get used, but the Fuji gets a lot more use, and I have no doubt that a truly good digital would utterly bury the Pentax.
My folks still use 35mm exclusively. My dad can just...about....email. 8/10 he gets it right but still needs to call me to ask sometimes. I do not see him being able to handle a digital.0 -
quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
quote:Originally posted by thesneakyrussian
send'em to me [:D]
Sorry, all were Offical Navy Photographs and classified. I got lots of merchants though I could keep, mostly Maru's or Hyundai automobile transports.[:D]
I haven't got a clue what you just said.0 -
I still have my old Minolta SRT-101 that came in a kit with 3 lenses (135mm Telephoto, 28mm wide angle, and 55mm basic lens) that I bought in 1972. I eventually replaced it with a Minolta Maxxum 5xi with a 55mm lens and an AF 75-300mm lens. The SRT-101 is still a nice camera and so is the 5xi; I plan to keep both of them. 0 -
i dont have a 35 mm but i have a kodak pocket 110 that is 34 years old. takes magic cubes for flash(HA HA)and a wierd battery which you can no longer find 0 -
Hey, the 110 and the Magic Cubes! Now that brings back some memories. That was a great little camera, in its day. 0 -
film isnt dead. never will be. i have friends in high places in the camera world and they still swear by them for remote places. i/e: you cant recharge a camera battery in a rain forest. 0 -
It's pretty wierd, yesterdays' expensive, high-tech toys are todays closet clutter. 
Taking pictures of your old cameras with the latest one almost feels like an act of betrayal.
(Sheesh, leaving my old 240Z at the dealer and driving off in a new car damn near killed me.)0 -
And today Minolta no longer exists Minolta (Minox) discontinued building cameras a couple of years ago. I have a 101 and an XGM. They are valueless today. 0
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