Nightmare

[Ed Sutton]

Not a film 'nightmare'. A real nightmare!

I dreamed last night that I was using a 35mm SLR. - for some reason with a lens designed for a cropped sensor digital camera.

It gets worse.

The film advance lever didn't stop after one, or even two, cranks. I had no idea how far on the film was winding. I was worried about wasting loads of film so I stopped shooting.

Obviously a message telling me to resist all thoughts of using film again.

Here are three snaps from my final roll of film shot a few years back.

 

[Mintchocs]

It could have been worse once you got the bill for all the d&p that endless film!

 

[Cockney]

I can see why you stopped using film.

 

[Mr Badger]

For you shooting film might be a nightmare; for me, whether 35mm or 120, it's living the dream!

 

[Ed Sutton]

For you shooting film might be a nightmare; for me, whether 35mm or 120, it's living the dream!

I'm too poor to afford a film habit!

 

[Mr Badger]

I'm too poor to afford a film habit!

There's not much hope for me then, the church mice organised a collection for me the other day they felt so sorry for me!

 

[Woodsy]

A worse nightmare for me would be the endless firing of the shutter, getting hundreds of thousands of photos, of essentially the same thing, and then having to sit through looking at them all in post!

 

[Ed Sutton]

A worse nightmare for me would be the endless firing of the shutter, getting hundreds of thousands of photos, of essentially the same thing, and then having to sit through looking at them all in post!

And where would you put all those negatives?

 

[Woodsy]

I wasn't thinking with film

 

[excalibur2]

And where would you put all those negatives?

Silly question as you can store 1000s in flat sleeves...mine go back 60 years. Ok I have the same problem as everyone else when in the past you had prints done at the same time and are in a folder with negs and they take up some room.

 

[Ed Sutton]

I wasn't thinking with film

 

[Woodsy]

Silly question as you can store 1000s in flat sleeves...mine go back 60 years. Ok I have the same problem as everyone else when in the past you had prints done at the same time and are in a folder with negs and they take up some room.

 

[excalibur2]

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...but you have to think of newbies and people who want to try film.... taking Dave's posts seriously

 

[Deleted member 21335]

I can see why you stopped using film.

Brilliant.

A worse nightmare for me would be the endless firing of the shutter, getting hundreds of thousands of photos, of essentially the same thing, and then having to sit through looking at them all in post!

Don't go there. I have just re-entered the digital (and wedding) arena. Trying to embrace it.

 

[Asha]

I have just re-entered the digital (and wedding) arena.

Self inflicted nightmare..... you need help! lol