By the way, here are my film cameras:<br><br><br><br>****************<br>

Cool when Jaz gets back I will show you mine - knock your socks off.<br><br>btw - Film is going the way of the Doo Doo Bird, slowly going extinct <br><br>

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>btw - Film is going the way of the Doo Doo Bird, slowly going extinct<p><hr></blockquote><p>Without a doubt film camera sales are grinding to a halt. However, I keep asking the several photo labs I use if they're seeing a slowdown in folks bringing film in for processing .. "Not much", they say. <br><br>Cool! I love shooting film.<br><br>****************<br>

Any slow down I suspect is because of what people already have, like yourself. What they don't see is a steady growth, like 10% a year rather more flat-line <br><br>Jaz took mine on a Photo shoot<br><br>

Sure. There won't be any growth, but I think it'll be a long, long time before film is up, over and out. <br><br>****************<br>

I just dug out my Pentax Asahi Spotmatic. Nice metal case camera. However, I think it is going up on eBay along with my second generation digital cameras.<br><br>

Digital photography has fully arrived. It's the future and always will be. But there's just something so damn fundamental about using a camera like the Spotmatic. It's a magnificent tool that's built like a tank. One on hand, you can use it to take beautiful photographs, yet on the other, you can drive nails with it in an emergency. <br><br>Using a film camera is getting back to the core basic of it all. It's like pushing away from the computer, grabbing a spiral-bound notbook and a pencil and finding a quiet place to just write. <br><br>I'll always use digital. But I'll never give up my film cameras.<br><br>****************<br>

I am going to keep my Olympic 35MM camera, a newer one with more automatic features (because I forget how to use the thing at times) in case I should need slides or 35MM film.<br><br>It looks like the Pentax Asahi Spotmatic is only worth about $50-60 with the lens I have.<br><br>

The gold standard in photo processing is the Fuji Frontier.....they cost a few hundred thousand dollars. Those machines use photo paper and photo chemicals to print digital prints (which is why it looks so good.)<br><br>Aside from the initial developing of the negative when people bring it in, there's not much difference on the back end. <br><br>

<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr><p>It looks like the Pentax Asahi Spotmatic is only worth about $50-60 with the lens I have.<p><hr></blockquote><p>That's right. These cameras can be had for a song on eBay. Is your Spotmatic in good condition?<br><br>****************<br>