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***April 2025 Image and Video Thread***

I was looking through cupboards at home today searching for a box that my wife hasn't been able to locate containing some specific yarn she wants for crocheting. We didn't find it but I did find a long-forgotten film camera in a dusty camera pouch! A very old Nikon L35 AF2 still loaded with a roll of film.

Unfortunately the AA batteries were left inside and they'd leaked. I got them out and cleaned it up as best I could but I just couldn't get it to fire up with fresh batteries. The little shot indicator on top was at '8' so presumably I'd taken 7 shots. My guess is that I was using this back around the mid-1980s.

This camera has a motorised rewinder so there was no way to manually retract the film into the canister. I couldn't even open the camera back without prising it open which I eventually did and pulled out the film. It was a roll of Kodak Max 400 ASA.

Anyway, just for fun here are a few shots of the camera alongside the S9. They're almost the same size body.

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  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • 45.0 mm
  • ƒ/4
  • 1/60 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 1250


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  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • 36.0 mm
  • ƒ/4
  • 1/60 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 1000
 
Pete_W said:
I was looking through cupboards at home today searching for a box that my wife hasn't been able to locate containing some specific yarn she wants for crocheting. We didn't find it but I did find a long-forgotten film camera in a dusty camera pouch! A very old Nikon L35 AF2 still loaded with a roll of film.
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Last year I found an old Nikon film camera I had tucked away on a shelf I never use. The battery was corroded but I cleaned it up and put in a new battery and it worked. There was not any film in the camera, and I seriously thought about getting a roll of film and trying it - but concluded the effort wasn't worth it.

There is an article right now in PetaPixel about the Voightlander Bessa R2A film camera, and using it with anamorphic lenses. That got may attention since I like anamorphic lenses, and the Bessa R2A uses L-Mount lenses. I also have a Nikon film scanner I haven't used for years. It is a long shot that I would get this camera, but I'm tempted. Part of this is my filmmaker friends shoot their movies in anamorphic, and they sometimes talk about film as the next frontier. I would certainly make points with them if I did this.
 
CharlesH said:
Last year I found an old Nikon film camera I had tucked away on a shelf I never use. The battery was corroded but I cleaned it up and put in a new battery and it worked. There was not any film in the camera, and I seriously thought about getting a roll of film and trying it - but concluded the effort wasn't worth it.

There is an article right now in PetaPixel about the Voightlander Bessa R2A film camera, and using it with anamorphic lenses. That got may attention since I like anamorphic lenses, and the Bessa R2A uses L-Mount lenses. I also have a Nikon film scanner I haven't used for years. It is a long shot that I would get this camera, but I'm tempted. Part of this is my filmmaker friends shoot their movies in anamorphic, and they sometimes talk about film as the next frontier. I would certainly make points with them if I did this.
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I haven't seen the article but I was happily using an R2A (the olive version - very pretty) up to a couple of years ago. It's not an L mount though but Leica M mount, nice body if you fancy shooting some film. I've given it up now as film prices seem to have really shot up lately as well as development costs.
 
CharlesH said:
There is an article right now in PetaPixel about the Voightlander Bessa R2A film camera, and using it with anamorphic lenses. That got may attention since I like anamorphic lenses, and the Bessa R2A uses L-Mount lenses. I also have a Nikon film scanner I haven't used for years. It is a long shot that I would get this camera, but I'm tempted. Part of this is my filmmaker friends shoot their movies in anamorphic, and they sometimes talk about film as the next frontier. I would certainly make points with them if I did this.
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Thanks, that was an interesting article. Anamorphic does look great so I can understand the temptation!

I love the look of photos taken on film and in some ways I miss those old days, going into a busy camera store and selecting rolls of film from the wide variety available, loading it in the camera and setting the ISO for the whole roll of film. And I miss the look of film prints. However I don't miss the downside of waiting for film to be processed although the advent of 1-hour labs towards the end of the film era was great.

Digital photography has been an amazing revolution.
 
Jayneboo said:
I haven't seen the article but I was happily using an R2A (the olive version - very pretty) up to a couple of years ago. It's not an L mount though but Leica M mount, nice body if you fancy shooting some film. I've given it up now as film prices seem to have really shot up lately as well as development costs.
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Yes, the R2A is M mount, not L-Mount. I must have been too enthusiastic when I read the article the first time. And it isn't possible to adapt my L-mount lenses to an M mount camera, so my anamorphic with film dream just went way up in price. Even less worth the effort. :(
 
The closed railway station at Ben Bullen, a rural village in the central west of NSW with a population of 71 people. Nothing much happening here.

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  • Panasonic - DC-S5M2
  • LUMIX S 24-105/F4
  • 48.0 mm
  • ƒ/8
  • 1/800 sec
  • Pattern
  • Auto exposure
  • ISO 125
 
So, it was a grey and cloudy day.

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20250420-SDIM3691 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
Sigma fp, Vivitar (Cosina) 100/3.5 Macro

The boats are out of the water.

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20250420-SDIM3694 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

The trails are barred.

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20250420-SDIM3701 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

But there are still things to be seen, if you look closely...

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20250420-SDIM3684 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20250420-SDIM3704 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20250420-SDIM3707 by Travis Butler, on Flickr

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20250420-SDIM3726 by Travis Butler, on Flickr
 
Meike 85/1.8 pro
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