Railfan Technology > Film Camera fanatics!!!

were back
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samellos/im-back-film?ref=a40czy&utm_source=jellop&ja=z2aimakj&utm_term=001.ja&utm_content=ImBackFilm-CL31&utm_medium=facebook&utm_id=fb&fbclid=IwAR2IV955JqO1yBn0zP_w39X4Xc6qgmnvx200heP3TpPBBBr5C7OQrnLJAe4
 

Maybe it'll make my old film bodies worth something again.

Between the crop factor and the lack of LCD screen to see results, it's not a very good product.  It's more of a novelty than a serious tool.

Datamation's definition of "kludge": An ill-assorted collection of poorly-matching parts, forming a distressing whole. Love the wire on the back for ... setting the ISO? transferring images to the baseplate atttachment?

After years of painstaking product development...
They forgot one thing...WHERE'S THE MARKET?
/Ted

Good luck with those film cameras.  Everyone else just pulled out their wallets for a cellphone with great camera optics...NO Waiting to see photo results and SHARE with others.

dan Wrote:
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> were back
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samellos/im-b

Mom had a cellphone and no film camera in sight.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/21/23 11:56 by cozephyr.

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Nikon, Canon, Leica, and some Pentax seem to be regaining some value.  Everything else in 35mm not so much.  Even film is climbing down a bit from peak prices.

I've got several dozen film cameras....this is a decent idea if a bit frivolous...but even the discounted kickstarter price is too too much for me. 

You're back, some of us never truly left.  I'm sending a batch of film out tomorrow.

 I'm from the days when "film photography " was just called "photography ". From age 13 to now I never stopped shooting with it, though I adopted digital slowly and use it too-iPhone pro for great "grab shots" in RAW, as well as a Canon 6D, 5D "classic(mark I)" and a Nikon D600 both bought used after largely depreciated but still which give me all I want.
I love the tactility and the process. The mechanical nature of older cameras. Always felt a certain suspense when I pulled the neg out of fixer, and reward if it was well-exposed and not blurry. Large, medium and 35mm formats I use them all. 
same as OP I don't have a darkroom but use a changing bag and daylight-proof canisters. Not just black and white but you can also venture into colour film (c41 process) and slide (e-6 process) films with small or large volume home developing kits. Then just scan away- flatbed or using a dslr  with macro lens, a light back-surface and a copy stand, as so many do now.
-jon Archibald in Canada.