[at-l] Cameras part Deux

[greyowl at rcn.com (greyowl@xxxxxxx)]

Lots of interesting discussion.  I am really picky about my 
photographs, so picky that I usually shot in black and white 
because color film will fade in a couple of uears.  I use 
fine grain slow speed black and white film.  I have not seen 
anything beat the pictures from this film.  THe added 
advantage was that I use to have a dark room and it was cheap 
to develop and make prints.  For color pictures I us slow 
speed (ASA 50) slide film and have the film developed as 
slides.  This is still very cheep and I can exam all the 
slides to determine which I want to make into prints.  This 
is expensive (different type of photograph paper is used) but 
since I used to print maybe only one or two pictures from a 
roll of film it was not terribly expensive.

Prints from digital cameras will fade within a year, so if 
you want hard copies you will have to reprint them every 
couple of years.  Of course the reply is that I have the 
digital image so the life time is almost infinity minus one.  
My response is do you remember betamax, VHS (almost dead), 
eight track tape, 10" floppies, paper tapes, IBM cards (OK 
air traffic control computers still use them) and CD's 
(rapidly being replaced by DVD).  In five years you may not 
be able to get the data off of your storage device.  In 
addition I have had audio CD's stop playing after a couple of 
years.

As Jim would say CYOC (Carry Your Own Camera).  My choice is 
an SLR.

Grey Owl