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Post by geoffr on Jan 29, 2023 10:25:49 GMT
“Decent film cameras are manual” either it is manual or it isn’t. Not that I agree, a decent film camera is one you choose to use in preference to any other. if you want to get meta data for film, a Nikon F5 records it and stores up to 50 films worth. Unfortunately getting at it requires a long obsolete Sharp device and a hard to find cable. They say it’s the thought that counts. I've several film cameras that can assist in this area. My EOS 1V allows storage of such data and passing it to an obsolete PC (or something even more obsolete with a different cable). My EOS 600 allows virtually anything to be printed on the film with its weird control back, and of course my Autographic Kodaks would allow me to write it on the backing paper of I had a stylus and if autographed film still existed... In my film days, I used to put a sticker on the film with basic details of location, and sometimes more (when I did weddings, for example, camera and film number, and I would keep a separate record of what planned shot was on which film). These days, I don't bother. I wouldn't be in the least surprised to find that the F5 and EOS 1V used the same device, purely academic as neither device nor cable are readily available. The device probably wouldn't work even if you could find one. |
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Post by squeamishossifrage on Jan 29, 2023 10:38:45 GMT
I wouldn't be in the least surprised to find that the F5 and EOS 1V used the same device, purely academic as neither device nor cable are readily available. The device probably wouldn't work even if you could find one. IIRC, the Nikon F6 recorded exposure and other metadata between frames on the film itself. Useful, but not as much as the Minolta system where the data did not have to be transcribed. |
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Post by geoffr on Jan 29, 2023 10:48:54 GMT
I wouldn't be in the least surprised to find that the F5 and EOS 1V used the same device, purely academic as neither device nor cable are readily available. The device probably wouldn't work even if you could find one. IIRC, the Nikon F6 recorded exposure and other metadata between frames on the film itself. Useful, but not as much as the Minolta system where the data did not have to be transcribed. You might think that and it would be OK with negatives but if you shoot slides the data is effectively lost. The way most film processing companies treated negatives the data would be destroyed by cutting the film into strips to put in the envelope. I had the posh data back for the F4 and it too could put data between frames, I never tried it because, in those days slide film was bought process paid and I would never have seen the data. |
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Post by andy on Jan 29, 2023 12:39:19 GMT
How many actually used these features back in their day?
I rarely took notes and was never tempted to change camera to capture exposure details. My films were generally shot at the weekend and then processed and scanned during the week so the creation date on the scans is close enough for my purposes. There's usually a date printed on the back of the prints too.
It's not like I was going to use reference material in the field anyway.
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