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Check-in from the Mid-West #427 12/19/16 11:45 PM
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Let's see if we can get a little life in this forum!

I've been clicking shutters for something over 40 years, worked my way from a Brownie 127 through to some decent 35mm and 120 film equipment before switching to digital in about 2002. This culminated in a Nikon digital kit about 2 years ago.

Then my father-in-law gave me his old Kodak Pony and I realized something was missing, I wasn't enjoying photography as much as I used to. So, I bought a roll of film and ran it through the Pony. Problem solved, I knew I wanted to shoot film again.

Then started the GAS, sadly most of my old film equipment had been sold so I had to find more. I did still own one Konica body with a single 24mm lens, and I still had the Fuji APS compact I bought in 1995.

Fortunately film cameras are easy to obtain, plus I have been collecting cameras for years so I dug through that collection for some users. I also started hunting for some systems. My preferences are for older mechanical cameras so I have been buying a few.

Now my most commonly used cameras are Leica C and D digital, Leica and Canon rangefinder film, the Konica mentioned above and an extensive and growing M42 collection based around a Mamiya Sekkor body my wife found in Goodwill for $5.50.

Other oddities include the APS camera I still owned, I've managed to collect some old stored film and I have a local lab with a functioning APS processing machine. I also have a 1920s Ihagee 6x9 plate camera that I managed to find a vintage film back for. It has a fantastic Zeiss shift lens and is a lot of fun to shoot.

I process my own film before scanning to digital, I do intend to set up a wet darkroom within the next couple of years, I'm also looking at trying platinum/palladium printing with the 6x9 negs.

Re: Check-in from the Mid-West [Re: MikeMGB] #428 12/20/16 05:33 PM
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Welcome Mike! Neat that you are doing it old school! I still have my old Canon T-70 film camera and like shooting with it, but I'm afraid I got hooked on Digital and all the post processing you can do (Besides, I don't have any good place in my house where I could set up a Dark Room.

The I first got started in a semi-serious way in photography, it was while I was stationed in Greece (Air Force). That's when I bought my T-70 (mid 80's). We had a Dark Room on our small site, so I did mess around, but never got really good at it.

Re: Check-in from the Mid-West [Re: MikeMGB] #430 12/20/16 05:46 PM
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Welcome, Mike!


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"The brave ones shot bullets, the crazy ones shot film!" --Joe Longo, WW-II Army Combat Camera

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