Vintage Camera Day - With a Gift From Warren!
Here are some photos I took using Warren's generous gift to me of a Nikon FM. It's the first time I've shot film since August 2003!I took my "new" Nikon to today's Vintage Camera Day outing of my photo group, Shutterbug Excursions.
The Nikon handled beautifully, and as you can see, the results are quite sharp. We all took our film to a Ritz 1-Hour photo place a block away from the Inner Harbor, and they did a decent enough job on 4x6 prints. I also had them scan the negatives onto a CD for an additional $4.00 per roll. Unfortunately, the scans were dissappointing - an average of only 1MB per photo. There's no reason they shouldn't be at least 3000 x 2000 pixels using modern minilabs, so I won't use Ritz any more.
But overall, my first film experience in almost 6 years worked out well. And best of all, our gang had a really good time.
Thanks again to Warren for the great camera!
Labels: Baltimore, Film, Nikon FM, Vintage Camera Day
posted by Steve Rosenbach at 8:19 PM
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Wow, that looked like a fun outing! I'm glad you're enjoying the FM, Steve. The pictures look really nice.
--Warren
Great photos Steve! I especially like the one of the guy with the baby and hat, and black background. I think you should shoot with film more often!!
Thanks, guys - yes, it was fun to see if I still knew how to shoot film ;-) For the photo of Devin and his baby daughter, he was carrying her "face inward" at first while she was sleeping. She woke up and he turned her around just about when we got to the aquarium, which has some concrete walls painted in various primary colors. I picked a stretch of dark blue wall, but it came out black in the print and the scan - but still has the desired effect.
BTW, I took a closer look, and the scans were done at 1700x1110 pixels - so 1.89 Megapixels. I'm gonna check with Costco - I think they do at least 3000 x 2000, and they're cheaper to boot. The reason I chose Ritz on this outing is that we were downtown and that's all that was nearby.
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