Does anyone here still shoot film?

I've been wanting to get into some film stuff lately so I'm thinking about buying a Canon AE-1 Program with the stock 50mm f/1.8 from a guy on craigslist for $50. Would this be a good film camera to start with? I've read some reviews and it looks pretty good to me. I'm suppose to meet with the guy later tonight or tomorrow morning.
 
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Thanks. I'm pretty happy with it actually. It seems to be doing the rounds on Tumblr without any input from me. Trying to track it's progress and getting pissed off with the lack of tracking tools.

Here's another shot from the same roll

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sorry for this bump, but i just recently got into Film, becuase i was at goodwill, and i saw a canon eos 2000 with a canon 75-300 and a canon 28-80 with two 2x tele extenders so i picked that bitch up, for 50, and its fully working and everything, but im yet to develop my first roll, but i was shooting with ektar 100, and i was just wondering if this was a fairly good film? and what some good films are? along with where can i find some used old eos mount lenses, i looked at the camera store by me(dodd Camera) and they had no eos mounts...
 
Ektar is a very, very good film if you want good colour and smooth, smooth film.
It's very unforgiving in terms of exposure though, so maybe not the best for a beginner.
 
I've heard it's about as forgiving as slide...

Got 3 rolls of Ektar, and 2 rolls of Fuji Pro 400H coming hopefully within the next couple days. I'll have to add it to my collection in the fridge...
 
I've only shot a few rolls of ektar, it's definitely comparable to slide in terms of latitude. Still a nice film under the right light.
 
Yeah I don't think ektar is as forgiving as other print films in terms of exposure latitude. But the colors and grain are great. Especially for scanning. I've yet to have any real darkroom prints made from it.
 
Yeah, I saw a scan of some Ektar done at around 4600 DPI, you can't see the grain at that size, which is pretty awesome if you like ultra smooth shots.

Hopefully I get mine soon, I'll try overexposing it by half a stop or so to get some extra saturation out of it.
 
I need to scan the rest of them in that I shot that day, I'll post the good ones up when I do.
 
Was that with a polarizer and red filter or something? The sky is straight black. Pretty gnarly contrast with the mountain though.
 
I started shooting film on a Leica M6 not too long ago.

Now I'm gonna start developing my own negatives too!

Shooting film, for me, has something that digital does'nt. It's kinda hard to explain.

 
Anyone know where i could get a cheap pentax k-mount body? ME super or the like? Cuz i have a bunch of PK lenses ive been using on my digi camera, but i wanna start shooting some film again.
 
I used to shoot film all the time until I went broke and had to resort to selling my camera.. Now I don't shoot at all and I really wish I still did.. Even still have a darkroom in my attic
 
I think I am going to pick up an AE-1 on craigslist to play around with when I don't have my 7d out.
 
Finalllly got some shots from the Rolli Developed heres a couple, didnt get too many scans and havent shot with it much, this is only the second roll ive shot.

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i have 36 kodak 64t slides sitting in my drawer, the 12 e100vs in my bronica, and the ektar in my 1N that when finished, will not be able to be sanned cause i'm at school.
 
YES. i just nade it into AP photo next year, and skipping photo 2 and 3. It's all black and white film, and 6-9 projects a week and takes two periods. legit mode.
 
borders.

and no he doesnt, he means people think photos are better than they are because they are film and not digi. which is crap because michelles shots are awesome.
 
I wouldn't say any photo is better because of the camera it was shot on, but each definitely has its strengths. Even after using a Mamiya DM22, my Toyo 45 GII is still my favorite camera. Digital has a long way to go before it can do the things film does, but at the same time there are a number of things film will never be able to do as well as digital.

And those photos are great!
 
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