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Post by captainbob on Jan 31, 2017 18:18:58 GMT
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Post by Jeff on Jan 31, 2017 20:41:04 GMT
Bit like vinyl, wonder how much they will cost to develop
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Post by graham on Feb 1, 2017 7:00:21 GMT
Us amateurs thrive on digital - take as many shots as you like, no film cost and no developing cost, just delete the crap shots, to all intents once you've bought your camera there's little additional cost involved. Like all of us, I used traditional film cameras in the 70s, 80s and 90s because that was your only option. Developing wasn't cheap back then, plus you invariably waited 4-5 days for Boots to develop and print them unless you sent them off to one of the mail developing services. Each to their own naturally but I shan't be a convert...;0)
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Post by filair on Feb 1, 2017 10:50:51 GMT
Digital is all vey well,but in years to come,will there be any way of viewing the images?
Prints will last for years and years if looked after.
The way images are viewed today may be as old fashioned and almost unusable as the old Betamax Video Tapes.
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Post by graham on Feb 1, 2017 16:22:01 GMT
PCs and laptops will develop as well Bob, don't you think, even if they don't necessarily "look" like they do today? I hope so....
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Post by filair on Feb 1, 2017 17:26:06 GMT
Yes they will develop and evolve but will todays Memory sticks and DVD'S etc still work in them?
Just compare a home Computer from the 1970's to todays laptops.
In say. 20 years time my PC will be regarded as some old steam driven relic,but my photographs will still be here (unless my Daughter has chucked them all out!)
I do like my Digital Cameras,but I also like looking at prints of photo's.
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Post by Jeff on Feb 1, 2017 18:30:51 GMT
Im sure in 20 to 30 years there will still be photo hosting sites around..... all you need to do is remember your password. Interestingly the guys who invented the digi camera were awarded honours by the queen today. The first digi pic was taken 47 years ago in 1970 !!
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Post by graham on Feb 1, 2017 18:43:52 GMT
Yes, I heard that too Jeff. I used to store all my digi photos on discs too but they have a maximum capacity of about 700Mb I believe, which isn't much in the grand scale of things, or if you take loads of shots so I entrust them all to Flickr and have done so for about eight years. They are also saved to my DropBox account as well as being stored on the laptop.
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Post by dave on Feb 2, 2017 9:29:46 GMT
hi morning,
back in the day when I first started photographing trains + aircraft, first you had to buy the film, then the expense of developing plus the wait, it made you think twice on the subject and angle etc, but with digital you snap away, pick what you want delete the rest simples! but I must admit I do think of those photographs i decided not to take... ah well that's life.
regards,
dave...
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Post by graham on Feb 3, 2017 13:14:29 GMT
Amazon seems to offer 35mm film from the likes of Kodak and Fuji, and there still appears to be plenty of mail order labs happy to develop the films. I would estimate that I bin at least half the shots I take on my digital cameras so it would work out very costly going back to film, plus you'd be changing rolls every ten minutes.
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Post by filair on Feb 3, 2017 17:01:00 GMT
Graham,if you were taking 35mm pictures,I bet you would not take anything like as many as you take using digital.
Years ago I would take perhaps one or two of a subject,now I take maybe a dozen if it is something I really like.
When I used to do Fairford for three or four days I would send off two films a month for printing,it took AGES to get them
all done,but it did spread the cost.
Just imagine waiting months for pictures these days!!
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