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enyaw

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Hi I just picked up a nikon slr from henry's in mississauga. I want to cut my tooth on an old skool camera first before I purchase a dslr. And I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get film cheap? Also processing maybe even a photo cd as well from my pics.

Thanks,
 
Thanks, but I mean really cheap. I know shopper's, walmart, and black's sells film as well. But I'm talking almost wholesale prices, and I"m also looking for good old black and white film as well.
 
Rockslinger said:
How much did you pay? I assume that FILM cameras must be really cheap now. How will you get your film developed (Wal-Mart?)?
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Forget Wal-Mart!

You would be surprised at how many places still process film. If one is in the downtown core, Yonge and Queen, I would go to Downtown Camera, on Queen, just west of Church, for one hour service. They told me that about 30 % of their photo processing business is film. In Oshawa, I go to Robert Aldsworth for one hour photo finishing, on Simcoe Street, between Rossland and Beatrice, across from Long and McQuaid. Both places do superb service.

A long-time professional photo finisher at Weston Road near Eglinton is Silvano's. When I was in Mississauga, Moto Photo at Hurontario and Eglinton was a good place, as well. The list is longer than you think.

To the OP, what model Nikon did you get?
 
enyaw said:
Thanks, but I mean really cheap. I know shopper's, walmart, and black's sells film as well. But I'm talking almost wholesale prices, and I"m also looking for good old black and white film as well.
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For B&W, try Downtown Camera. They have, especially this time of year, student specials on Ilford and Kentmere.
 
Rockslinger, they have a bargain bin. 3 pieces body lens and flash for $60, can't go wrong. I haven't been around a computer since this morning til now. Henry's clearance centre across the street from diamond's strip joint
 
I was thinking of mailing the shit out, get it processed and all of that via an online store. Not much overhead. Something like a plant that still does this and all I pay for is s/h basically
 
shakenbake, I picked up a nikon f80, tokina 70-210 lens, flash, and a canon 28-80 lens as well. The batteries cr123a lithium ion, I'm going to get on ebay for dirt cheap and the charger. I'm looking at rechargeables though. If/when you go to the store. You have to assemble the setup yourself. Ie pick a body, find a lens, and a flash and off you go to the counter. Mostly older stuff, you won't find a f100 or f6 in the bin. And Canon is the most popular brand. I exchanged my rebel xs or something like that for the nikon. The rebel came out in 2004 and it's one of canon's top 5 film slr's
 
enyaw said:
shakenbake, I picked up a nikon f80, tokina 70-210 lens, flash, and a canon 28-80 lens as well. The batteries cr123a lithium ion, I'm going to get on ebay for dirt cheap and the charger. I'm looking at rechargeables though. If/when you go to the store. You have to assemble the setup yourself. Ie pick a body, find a lens, and a flash and off you go to the counter. Mostly older stuff, you won't find a f100 or f6 in the bin. And Canon is the most popular brand. I exchanged my rebel xs or something like that for the nikon. The rebel came out in 2004 and it's one of canon's top 5 film slr's
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I scored big when the outlet store was on Queen ST. in TO. Ah, the memories! You did good, and enjoy those gems!
 
When I used to do more photography I bought film in bulk 100 ft rolls at Henrys and rolled my own cartridges. Look on ebay for bulk film loaders.

As much as I appreciate your back to basics work ethic, I would go digital as soon as possible. I think the benefits far outweigh the initial higher cost. IMHO the immediacy of feedback that a DSLR provides is invaluable, especially for someone who is learning. Waiting for a few hours, let alone days or weeks, to see if I "got the shot", would be incredibly frustrating now . Given the high cost of shooting/developing film, I would think that the break even point between a DSLR and SLR is only about 1000 shots or so.
 
I understand what your saying. And I have a fuji finepix s8000fd, which is digital and a canon sd camcorder also digital. But I wanted to learn the old skool way. I'm not going to run out every weekend and fire off 5 rolls. Mostly for nature and family pics once in a while.
 
What's the point of "old skool" if you're just going to fire off a roll here and there once in a while? I'd concentrate on one system if I was only shooting once in a while.

enyaw said:
I understand what your saying. And I have a fuji finepix s8000fd, which is digital and a canon sd camcorder also digital. But I wanted to learn the old skool way. I'm not going to run out every weekend and fire off 5 rolls. Mostly for nature and family pics once in a while.
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Hey, now you can post on here that you are a photographer and that you want to build your portfolio, so if any ladies would like to have their pics taken you could do that for them!
 
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