What's the goofiest thing someone has said about your film M (or about film)?

[hendriphile]

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Not necessarily "goofy," but sorta cute:

 

"It's so heavy! And it's full of numbers!"

 

-- my teenaged niece on seeing my M3 (with attached MR4 meter) for the 1st time

[acanalda]

Not with my M3 but with my old Rolleiflex I received nothing but praise at a gathering of vintage car owners. Must have heard "nice camera" about 10 times. See these folks understand.

 

 

My "old" Rollei + my "old" car...I understand you perfectly!

 

Regards

 

Arturo

[too old to care]

 

My "old" Rollei + my "old" car...I understand you perfectly!

 

Regards

 

Arturo

 

And, both classics……..

[!Nomad64]

Maybe a bit offtopic or maybe not.

Just figure me a couple months ago at a main german airport leaving for some african country. Hand baggage X-ray scanning. Something unusual. Manual inspection. I obviously expect security staff focusing on my IIIf and the lead lined bag containing my films. I show them. The lady, a young one btw, stares at the IIIf and chirps "Oh, I know that well!" and puts it away. Asks about the lead bag. I show her the films "Oh, it's OK" and puts them away. Then she picks us my travel water heater, a sort of metal spiral connected to a power cord. That goes straight to further scrutiny under explosive sensors.

If I think of all the unsuccessful battles when I literally begged the security staff for hand inspection instead of passing my (loaded) cameras and film rolls under x-ray scanners. And right now in the full bloom of digital age...

 

Cheers

Bruno

[nggalai]

The lady, a young one btw, stares at the IIIf and chirps "Oh, I know that well!" and puts it away. Asks about the lead bag. I show her the films "Oh, it's OK" and puts them away. Then she picks us my travel water heater, a sort of metal spiral connected to a power cord. That goes straight to further scrutiny under explosive sensors.

 

I see sort of a “popular” film revival here in Switzerland. At first I thought this whole Lomography thing will pass as a hipster fad and won’t change anything regarding public perception, but perhaps I was wrong. Even our local grocery store (village, inhabitants: ~2000) sells Kodak Gold again – hasn’t done so in ages, they don’t even stock Tonic Water (only the Gin). i.e. shelf space seems to matter a lot.

 

Neighbour town (~20.000), had to shop for film in the two dedicated photo stores in the past and hope for the best (i.e. still had to order online most of the time). Now there’s even a selection of Ilfords in the supermarket, next to quite a few negative films (mostly Kodak, some Fuji).

 

The nation’s largest electronics discounter sells Fuji Instax cameras again, AND has film in stock. Even in their tiny stores.

 

I don’t know what’s up with that, but am happy to refill the fridge with BNC 400 and HP5 without outrageous markup and/or shipping fees.

[!Nomad64]

Thanks a lot Sascha,

 

having recenty re-embraced film this makes me feel quite positive about it. It comes as a reassuring confirmation of a theory I have myself, namely film vs digital is the photographic equivalent of vinyl vs CD.

When this latter appeared almost everyone hailed the new medium and forecasted the death of the vinyl. As we can see now it wasn't so. Vinyl survived in small numbers and progressively regained. The CD instead is severely suffering since the introduction of "liquid music".

I think that film will still be with us for a long time but I wouldn't swear on current digital sensors technology.

Well, we'll see.

 

Cheers,

Bruno

[pico]

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I was covering a bicycle rally that had drawn a couple thousand riders from all over the country. We have a road that is famous for tri-athelon people so some real die-hards show up.

 

An older fellow rolled up beside me to say Hello. I immediately felt some camaraderie. Then nodding at my Leica he said gently, "Ah, a good old film camera". Suddenly I felt like an outcast as I turned the camera back back towards him. He smiled and shook his head in disappointment saying, "I never would have believed it if only told (that it was digital).

 

My minor angst was dispelled when I saw the he was riding an American made Madone, a dauntingly expensive, late-model bicycle.

[maurometallo]

Thanks a lot Sascha,

 

having recenty re-embraced film this makes me feel quite positive about it. It comes as a reassuring confirmation of a theory I have myself, namely film vs digital is the photographic equivalent of vinyl vs CD.

When this latter appeared almost everyone hailed the new medium and forecasted the death of the vinyl. As we can see now it wasn't so. Vinyl survived in small numbers and progressively regained. The CD instead is severely suffering since the introduction of "liquid music".

I think that film will still be with us for a long time but I wouldn't swear on current digital sensors technology.

Well, we'll see.

 

Cheers,

Bruno

 

 

My thoughts, entirely...

[raytoei]

onboard the plane...

 

"sir, the plane is taking off, you must turn off the camera"

"there's no battery on this camera"

"oh..."

 

when i change film, i inevitably get a lot of curious people especially kids

who like to look and see what film is like and i like to ask them how many

exposures (i have to use the word "pictures") do they think does the film makes,

i get wild answers from 100 to 1000 images, presumably from their experience with SD-Cards.

When I tell them (24 for my 135 format, or 12 for my Rolleiflex), I get the incredulous looks...

 

raytoei

[!Nomad64]

I was covering a bicycle rally that had drawn a couple thousand riders from all over the country. We have a road that is famous for tri-athelon people so some real die-hards show up.

 

An older fellow rolled up beside me to say Hello. I immediately felt some camaraderie. Then nodding at my Leica he said gently, "Ah, a good old film camera". Suddenly I felt like an outcast as I turned the camera back back towards him. He smiled and shook his head in disappointment saying, "I never would have believed it if only told (that it was digital).

 

My minor angst was dispelled when I saw the he was riding an American made Madone, a dauntingly expensive, late-model bicycle.

 

Huh! You won't pretend that someone riding a space technology carbon-fiber bike will understand your (our) rangefinder film cameras!

Sometimes when I think about that I feel that we embraced the photographic equivalents of

Pashley Cycles - Guv'nor and Royal Enfield-Classic 350

After all they all have their roots in the '30s...

 

Cheers,

Bruno

[gravastar]

A few days ago I was showing a friend some M9 landscape panoramas printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper. In addition I had some 40 year old Swiss landscapes taken on FP4 and printed on Agfa Brovira. When they saw the monochrome prints they exclaimed "Oh, real photographs!"

 

Bob.

[gberger]

Going through Heathrow to Brussels several years ago, I was carrying my M4. I had my light meter in my trousers pocket. Going through the pat-down between United and Sabena airline terminals, the screener looked up at me and said: "Ah! A Weston Master!"

[giordano]

"Is that a SEI photometer in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?"

[Stealth3kpl]

Going through Heathrow to Brussels several years ago, I was carrying my M4. I had my light meter in my trousers pocket. Going through the pat-down between United and Sabena airline terminals, the screener looked up at me and said: "Ah! A Weston Master!"

 

That reminds me of that Robin Williams joke where he says the guys trousers were so tight he could tell his religion.

Pete

[!Nomad64]

Wasn't it Woody Allen's joke?

 

Bruno

[Sandokan]

While walking around San Francisco with Rolleiflex around neck and 2 digital photographers firing off 10 to ma every one, a pair of attractive young women looked at the Rollei. One said "really nice camera!". I said thanks, but the problem is I only have these 2 ugly models with me. She immediately straightened up and said "with or without clothes?" how I wish I lived locally!

[philipus]

While walking around San Francisco with Rolleiflex around neck and 2 digital photographers firing off 10 to ma every one, a pair of attractive young women looked at the Rollei. One said "really nice camera!". I said thanks, but the problem is I only have these 2 ugly models with me. She immediately straightened up and said "with or without clothes?" how I wish I lived locally!

 

Classic

[Stealth3kpl]

Wasn't it Woody Allen's joke?

 

Bruno

 

He's probably used it too but I remember it as RW.

Robin Williams: Live at the Met (1986) (TV) - Memorable quotes

Pete

[enboe]

In the not too distant past, someone who works security at Disneyland told me how he was instructed by management to quiz someone who was using a box camera to find out why they were using it. He even was instructed to ask where the person bought their film to see if they were legit, or just posing with a vintage camera.

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[ismon]

While working at the front counter of a photo lab, a customer once asked for some "126 or 127" film. Trying to be helpful, I asked "Instamatic?". Their response was"Oh, there's nothing instant about it. You still have to get it developed!" I thought of that million dollar ad campaign showing skydivers loading the "new" (foolproof) Instamatic, and smiled.