Back in the film days, I always preferred Ektachrome…. I found the colors truer…
But I haven’t owned a film camera for almost 20 years now. Too little, too late? Is there enough hipster market to support the few pros that will use it?
When I was in London a couple weeks ago, there were a couple guys on Portobello road in Notting Hill selling vintage cameras (including an Olympus OM-2 like my old one that I bought new 35 years ago).
I always see film cameras in Goodwill. They are cheap.
The same thing has happened to pianos. Many used ones are just being landfilled.
Back in the film days, I always preferred Ektachrome…. I found the colors truer…
But I haven’t owned a film camera for almost 20 years now. Too little, too late? Is there enough hipster market to support the few pros that will use it?
When I was in London a couple weeks ago, there were a couple guys on Portobello road in Notting Hill selling vintage cameras (including an Olympus OM-2 like my old one that I bought new 35 years ago).
I always see film cameras in Goodwill. They are cheap.
The same thing has happened to pianos. Many used ones are just being landfilled.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/arts/music/for-more-pianos-last-note-is-thud-in-the-dump.html
Someone should be buying and warehousing them for the piano renaissance.
One of my great yearnings as a younger man was a Hassleblad 500C camera, and all the accessories….
Now they’re affordable at used camera places….
https://www.keh.com/shop/catalogsearch/result/?q=500C
And vacuum tubes…
I have a couple of Ham radio amplifiers that still use tubes…
They come from Russia and China, these days…
I have a phono pre-amp. That I’ll probably be using when I get a new tone arm/cartridge to play my old vinyl. Which preserves remarkably well…