What A Waste Of Money SLR 35 MM Cameras

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Does anyone else feel this way, now that Kodak is going out of business and for years I invested heavy in professional 35MM SLR Nikon and Pentax cameras with lens, accesaries, tripods, filters, and even had dark room equipment.

They fell by the waste side to digital cameras and Kodak never kept up with the times like Brothers did.

What I could have done with all thoses tens of thousands of dollars? It's depressing.
 
Yes, I really enjoyed using the cameras and taking pictures everywhere I traveled and for special occassions in my area as well.

Looking for film for the cameras now and places that develop film is depressing.

I still have photos I took of Ray Harryhausen and his work on display at a Creation Convention years ago.
 
I have other photos I took of Isaac Asimov and his TRS-80 Radio Shack word processor both live and in person at a local convention. Isaac loved to entertain people with his word games.
 
Kodak isn't going out of business. They're filing chapter 11 to reorganize but that's probably a good business call. They're just ending their digital camera line. Fuji is still running pretty strong, though film is harder and harder to find.

It's a little ironic, Kodak actually invented the digital camera that 30-40 years later has now all but killed film. I'm sure the patent fees from other digital manufactures have been nice though.
 
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It's the same with recording tape.

I enjoy recording certain musical instruments for albums onto tape and then transferring it to digital, but it's not too viable anymore because it's not being made much and hard to find.
 
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I still shoot medium format film (Mamiya 645) from time to time.

All your lenses till have value. As Dready said it's bodies that are now worthless except for a few sought after models.
 
ROC said:
It's the same with recording tape.

I enjoy recording certain musical instruments for albums onto tape and then transferring it to digital, but it's not too viable anymore because it's not being made much and hard to find.
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I really miss analog tape.

I don't miss the hiss, I don't miss having to bias the machine, I don't miss demagnetizing, cleaning and aligning tape heads, I don't miss tape bleed, I don't miss punching in and out, I don't miss window punches and razor blade editing...

But I really miss slamming 2" Ampex with a really raucous guitar sound, or that solid clicky kick when the meter flickers red, or the natural compression imparted to a Fender P-Bass recorded via a DI. The same applies to old analog synths; they didn't stay in tune, and the exact same settings didn't always yield the same sound, but there's that unquantifiable something about the sound of a real Mini-Moog that is different than digital or software copies.

A few studios are reconditioning old Studers and slamming the final digital mix to analog tape and back to digital again. There's just something magical about it.
 
@Alcove I just recorded some pop piano by saturating my 2" Studer. Sounded great :)

Sounded very "Fray"ish or "Coldplay"ish
 
Waste of money?

I still shoot film. I love my film SLR bodies. They are far from useless...for now at least.
 
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