So I dug out the 25 year old Olympus OM-2. Stuffed a roll of Ilford FP 4 black and white film in it and took my daughter out for her first photo shoot. (As in, she gets to figure out how to use a real camera.. as in not a real camera but also not a toy camera.)
Anyways, we hope to develop the first roll of film tomorrow, and then start making prints in the darkroom later in the week.
I have done that as well, and taught my daughter how to use an older non-digital camera to learn exposure, aperture, and so on. As cool as Photoshop and Digital cameras are, it's a bit of a shame that we can't trust the integrity of photos quite the way we used to.
My digital cameras in full manual mode will give anyone a run for their money if they're not familiar with photography...just like a 35mm SLR will.
Originally Posted by JimmyNeutral
Anyways, we hope to develop the first roll of film tomorrow, and then start making prints in the darkroom later in the week.
Anyone else here does this kind of thing?
Very cool. Part of what got me into photography was being in a dark room. It's like magic. I haven't seen the inside of a darkroom since 2004 and it was a bunch of years before that that I had been in one. Darkrooms are very cool but they are incredibly inconvenient these days. The chemicals are toxic, expensive and a bitch to dispose of properly.
Digital has made photographer's work-flows easier and faster and less expensive. It has also fooled most Tom, Dick and Harry into believing that they too can be pro's...just by buying a pro-level camera. I certainly don't think that it has spoiled photography at all, however.
Originally Posted by bwhip
As cool as Photoshop and Digital cameras are, it's a bit of a shame that we can't trust the integrity of photos quite the way we used to.
There was more than enough manipulation done in darkrooms on silver-halide prints, my friend. Where do you think Adobe came up with all those cool ideas for photoshop? Photographers were layering negatives back in the 1850s and they've been burning, dodging and tinkering with exposures ever since the process was first created.
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Originally Posted by JimmyNeutral
I haven't seen the inside of a darkroom since 2004 and it was a bunch of years before that that I had been in one. Darkrooms are very cool but they are incredibly inconvenient these days. The chemicals are toxic, expensive and a bitch to dispose of properly.
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