"Back in the Day"

[mtnbike28]

My assignment this week for my PJ class was a flash back to "back in the day" and Friday night football. They had to shoot no more than 4 rolls of film and process and print on deadline in a lab. Great fun!

 

[jim65wagon]

ypu can still buy film in rolls?! so much bulkier and less memory than an SD card! almost like making them listen to 8track tapes all day....fun project!

 

[mtnbike28]

What digital noise?

After seeing the grain of P3200 pushed 1 stop, I doubt they will ever complain about digital noise. I think the film was $11 a roll.

 

[jim65wagon]

Good Lord man! are you unsane! I can get a 4GB SD card for less and get more photos on it and not waste precious time processing film! Oh the agony! Where's the LCD screen? Where's the "delete" button on my SLR? You mean I have to have a hard copy before I can delete the picture from my file?!

You are one B-A teacher!

 

[taco2go]

Very nice, and what a great teaching tool- I do regret not having the means to actually take a photography class during my formative years, (altho, do those really end?)
and respect instructors, including ones on this forum, that seem to do such a fine job

 

[LR Max]

I've heard of this from guys who did that back in the day. Add to that, manual focus and you've got a job cut out for ya!

But yeah, I can't complain about shooting a basketball game, then heading up to the office and have ~10 photos already good to go.

 

[mtnbike28]

The class has been shooting games and turning in 15 captioned pix from a game. They shoot 500 plus frames a game... I think this was a great exercise in learning to wait and predict. I started in the business all manual focus and shooting film. Racing back, drying film in rubbing alcohol.... great times!

 

[Bikemobile]

That takes me back to my senior year in high school 2000-2001. I was the TA in the photo lab and the photo editor for the yearbook. Everything we did was on film back then. I took the first digital photography class offered at my college in 2001. The cameras were huge, expensive and barely 1 megapixel.

 

[Michael Slade]

Nice assignment. Brings back fond memories!

 

[BKCowGod]

I still get nostalgic (ugh - I'm 27 and already an old fart... technology has accelerated everything!) when I smell a darkroom.

My first digital camera cost more than my first car, held eight pictures, and had no LCD screen. But anybody remember the Mavica cameras with the floppy drive?

 

[LR Max]

Yes! Those Mavicas were BEASTS!!! Also remember when the 64mb sony card was the "big card".

Nowadays a cell phone camera with the right light can whoop one of those old units.

 

[BKCowGod]

Yes! Those Mavicas were BEASTS!!! Also remember when the 64mb sony card was the "big card".

Nowadays a cell phone camera with the right light can whoop one of those old units.

Hehe - I was cleaning out my attic and I found my Apple Newton with a 256kb PCMCIA flash card... and a 6400 baud modem PCMCIA, complete with dongle!

To bring it back to topic - I also found my AE-1P metal body and three lenses. Still works!

 

[syke]

Oh to bring back memories.... and to think it was only 10-12 years ago.

1998-2001 highschool photography classes, shooting with my aunts old Minolta and a 50mm prime. Man I love that lens. (Is Minolta still around?)
Although I think I paid more attention to my girlfriend at the time then actually developing any film in the dark room. Shhhh. Mr. Pemberton would not approve.

Great times and man I learned so much. I would do it all over again if I could.

Bummer that some of the kids today will never know film and the smell of a dark room.