Film Camera Slate - New Toy

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I realise that film addicts like a decent briar pipe, a pint of Speckled Hen and a nice well worn cardigan, but I thought that I might some modern electronic sorcery to your attention! :D

FilmExif Lite (free) and it's bigger brother FilmExif (£1.79) are iPhone Apps for producing a film SLR slate.

You can log the camera, lens, film type, exposure details and record notes for each frame. The grown up paid for version adds geotagging with data via Googlemaps. The only downside that I've found so far is that you can't export the data.

For a freebie it's a fairly handy tool and saves scribbling with a pad and pencil only to lose the pad later.

Links:
Lite version:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/filmexif-lite/id401514730?mt=8

Full version:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/filmexif/id399348859?mt=8


Have fun! :)
 
TheBigYin said:
Don't suppose it runs on a nokia 8210.... no - thought not :(
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Sorry about that! :D

I'm looking at getting an EOS-3, hence browsing the film apps that are available, and I thought that it looked like a decent idea. If it's any help, your nokia does have a decent notepad on it! :D
 
To be fair, I don't really worry too much about the settings on the film camera, unless I'm doing a lens test or something similar, so I'm not too worried. I can however vouch for the EOS-3 as a belting camera body, I've been delighted with mine for the last year or so since I bought it :) Works great with decent modern glass too :thumbs:
 
Actually, apart from doing some research, a lot of the decision was down to reading your posts about it.

I just need to find one in decent nick that isn't going for the massive £200+ that some dealers are asking for them at the moment.

Do you think that the PBE2 is a worthwhile addition, or just an unnecessary extra? I'm not going to be fretting about fps too much, because if I need to do that I'll revert to digital.
 
well - a lot comes down to how often you'll want to shoot in "portrait grip" I suppose. It really is a massive beast with the PB-E2 or Booster E1 fitted - wider than and at least as deep as a EOS-1Diii for example. If you just want a portrait grip and extra batterys (facility to use AA's) go for the BP-E1. Personally, I've not bothered - I've used one with the PB-E2 fitted, and preferred it without - though I'm not shooting portrait too often.
 
That rather echoes my thought, and I'm quite happy shooting cack handed when it comes to portraits. Cheers! :D
 
if you can pick up a BP-E1 for a sensible price (say £30-40) then it could well pay for itself in batteries - the 2CR5's aren't particularly cheap - and I'm told that modern IS lenses (especially the big white ones) can munch through a battery in a couple of rolls. I can't swear to that, to be honest, as all the EF lenses I've used have been non-IS, at least until the 70-200f4L IS arrived yesterday :)
 
i got a couple of rechargeable 2CR5's and a charger off of ebay for about a tenner I think. makes the batteries cheaper if you use them a bit. I always uses the "cheapest inc P&P" search, and I dont mind waiting upto a month for them to arrive from china / hong kong etc.
 
Thanks, I've been looking for an App exactly like this. :cool:

There is also PhotoJot, but it's £2.99 and hasn't been updated since August 2009. Question marks over how well it would work with iOS 4....

I'd been thinking of making my own utility to log my film shots with FileMaker Go until I saw this thread.
 
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