Free editor:
http://www.gimp.org/

You can also scan your film negatives into pretty high quality digital images for editing.

>>768017
Nah, just find someone with a good film scanner. Film also makes you think about your shots before you take them, instead of take 1000 and publish the 4 that are good. It makes you a better photographer, imo.

>>768019
right, so i would have to buy a scanner too. are all scanners the same or...yeah i know total newfag

>>768022
so what kind of film camera should i get?

>>768030

a digital one

whoa.
but something..just doesnt feel right

Amazing shot, though I think it would work better without the left side, it kinda throws it off imo.

>>768001
More like this?
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>>768018

yeah, but this one is really unbalanced, too much weight on the right. still nice though.

>>768008
You're doing a really shitty job of trying to sound smart and cultured. You just sound like a pompous film-twit.

I can learn all I need about photography from digital, thousands already have and are more successful than you could ever hope to be.

Do me a favour and answer me a question with just a straight yes or no answer...

Does a photographer need to know about film or the process involved to be a successful and accomplished photographer, or a master of his trade?

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>my face when all film labs close

This thread has gotten so shitty giving a play-by-play on it is actually more entertaining than anything else on 4chan right now.

>>768008
Irate, incredulous rant at someone most likely a troll.

>>768011
Rational post I think mistaken, because the history of photography as a creative, aesthetic medium is inseperably bound up with the history of its technical development.

>>768016
Insulting someone for seeming intelligent.

>>767979

Just my guess, but as a dealer and having handled literally dozens or hundreds of film SLR kits, every bag winds up pretty much the same;

SLR, 50mm prime, 70-210 zoom - usually aftermarket, cheap UV filters, small non-folding flash, a no-name teleconverter, and a cheap bag with a few accessories like cable release, and two rolls of cheap color print film from 20 years ago with a theme park/foreign name on the price tags.

Yours looks to be right up the statistical norm there. I would bet against a wide, you will probably need one. I would also say the tele zoom lens is likely crap, I think they must have given them away for free at some point in the 80's as every kit has one. You might luck out and it might be a prime but don't count on it.

>>768004

I guessed wide because thats what the front element looked like to me, but i guess it would be just a slow 50

>>767979
OP here. I read a few articles about lenses and I understand what they are a little better now.

I think you're right about the teleconverter, and the big lens is 28-85mm f/2.8-3.8 according to the auction. It's made by Kiron, which sounds like an off brand.

The auction pictures also say that the lens on the camera is a 45mm 1:2 prime.

Anyone else have advice on what to read so my pictures don't suck cock?

Album of the whole kit. I hope I didn't get ripped off and sold plastic shit.

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>>768007

Kiron? Keep that lens!!!!!

There was a group of lens designers at Nikor that broke with Nikons design philosophy at the time of going cheaper on the design of the optics to stay competitive at a very competitive time in the SLR market.
These lens designers left Nikon and made their own third party zooms with no compromises. They not only broke the idea that third-party lenses were not of the same quality as OEM manufacturers, they embarrased the hell out of Nikon;
The zoom lenses each outperformed Nikons PRIME lenses at each of the relevant focal lengths!!! That was completely unheard of before or since.
They named the lenses Kiron, Nikor switched around.

They were awesome but too expensive and so later they sold out and died off into something else.

Keep that lens. That was worth the whole package price.

>>767422
A month or so ago I went for a roll of Ektar they said their distributor was bought out and all orders were backordered. They didn't seem to have any other Kodak film besides Gold 100. I went there a week or two ago and asked when they'd be getting some D76 in, and they told me the same thing. Distributor bought out, backordered, ect. Their fridges looked pretty barren to I assumed they were still out of film.

>>767525
yea, awesome. too bad you need to wait in line for 20 minutes to get help with anything and they rush you the entire time

>>767525

fuck you, thats all I have to say, I am so goddamn jealous.

Is it true the place is entirely run by orthodox jews?

http://www.servicephoto.com/

Service Photo in Baltimore, MD is a good place.

>>767996
Not the guy you're responding to, but the owner of B&H and most of the employees are Satmar Chasidim. And the owner donates almost all of B&H's nine-figure yearly profit to charity, doesn't own a car, and lived in a small apartment somewhere in B&H's building until he bought someone's big house to save them from bankruptcy, if I'm remembering the story right because someone had built a funeral home across the street and no one would pay an otherwise reasonable amount for it. He moved what sparse furniture he had into a few rooms of the house and leaves the rest empty.

Adorama is also owned by Orthodox Jews, but I don't know what sect or anything else about their operation.

Pink Floyd - Animals.
Sorry, too lazy to upload it.

>>767970
Nice taste.

north vegas is pretty raunchy but has a nice urban look.
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>>767983
Do you live here or was that from a visit?

I was thinking some (excuse my language) nigger part of town would do best, with lots of graffiti.

>>767989
i lived in vegas for a month and a half, in some apt building in the nigger/beaner side of town, lots of gun shops ,liquor stores and smoke shops.
lots of open space with graffiti walls and the glow from the strip actually give off nice colors

so am i going to get some c&C ?

bump

>>767207
Simplify the picture. Get closer. Right now, it's just a mess of bits all jumbled up. We're too close to see what it is and too far to have a distinct subject.

Fuck yeah I work on these things.
Picture itself is nice and sharp, but kinda boring. I dunno if that's just because I've been around turbines too long or it's just a boring photo, I dunno.

>>767324

it was inside a museum and it was preatty crowed. so if i when back it would look shitty i rather like this picture sure it's busy but it's easy on the eyes and brain

bathe