I miss those good old days of 35mm film

Ally with Mykey's chew stick.
@rebelann (117283)
El Paso, Texas
March 11, 2017 10:23am CST
Boy, do I miss getting the quality shots I used to take with my old 35mm cameras. I never had to worry about whether or not I could get a copy of a negative, I just had to bring it to the photo place and request a copy of what ever frame I preferred. This morning I wanted to find a couple of shots of both Ally and Boobear I'd taken over the last 5 years which are all stored on a Seagate external hard drive. To my horror the device had a really severe case of the hic ups. That stupid thing would start to load so I waited, 10 minutes went by and I still could not access any photos. Finally 20 minutes later I gained access to a few older shots, like the one above of Ally after she'd commandeered Mykey's chew stick, it's a favorite of mine and am I relieved to have gained access to it. Oh, the reason I removed the background is so you can't see the mess in the room So now I have to figure out what caused this NEW Seagate device to malfunction, it contains all the thousands of pictures I've taken since I went digital, which I am still sorry I had to do. 35mm film will always be 100 times better than digital especially when it comes to quality. Do you have an external drive where you keep your photos?
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Mar 17
I saw some colour film on sale in a discount shop this morning, 200ASA x 24 colour 35mm film. Less than a buck 25 a roll. I wonder how many they will sell?
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117283)
• El Paso, Texas
11 Mar 17
That's a good question. I wouldn't have bought any even in the day of the 35mm, I mostly bought 100ASA, I took most of my photos outdoors so it never made sense to buy 200 or higher ASAs.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117283)
• El Paso, Texas
11 Mar 17
I do believe you know a lot more about photography than I do @pgntwo I just like taking photos, I never really understood my camera well enough to figure out what an aperture was. I always did get lucky though, I had a 2.8 wide angle lens which allowed me to take some nice close ups of flowers .... yeah, I know a wide angle was supposed to be used to take landscape shots but it worked so well when taking shots of flowers.
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pgn
@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Mar 17
@rebelann Conditions are apt to be a touch greyer hereabouts. I used to use 400ASA, permitting reasonable indoor shots, and allowing a small aperture for greater depth of field on outdoor shots. Oh, I remember those days so well.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502947)
• Italy
12 Mar 17
I print some of our photos taken with the digital camera, not all but the ones I like more. We have a color laser printer and I use photo paper for the printings, they look like the old photos
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117283)
• El Paso, Texas
12 Mar 17
I don't have a printer so I am not familiar with the quality of a laser print. But when I take a digital photo to Costco to have them enlarged to 8x10s they came out grainy, the lab tech told me it was due to my camera at the time, it was a Vivitar that used 5 mega pixals and the quality was horrible. I got rid of that camera, now I have a Nikon that provides 24 mega pixels.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117283)
• El Paso, Texas
12 Mar 17
Well, maybe smaller prints but 8x10 can be difficult @LadyDuck
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502947)
• Italy
12 Mar 17
@rebelann They were right a 5 Mega Pixel camera does not produce good quality, but the 24 Mega Pixel is very good, you should have good prints.
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marguicha
@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
11 Mar 17
Ever since I started with my digital camera, I have difficulties discovering in what part of the computer they are. I don´t place pictures here, because most of my pictures are in my old computer upstairs. The real photos, the old ones, I can see in my albums every time I want to.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117283)
• El Paso, Texas
11 Mar 17
I like the way you worded that, those real photos are the ones that can be enlarged to 8x10 so you can display the good ones on a mantle or table.
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marguicha
@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
11 Mar 17
@rebelann Those are the photos I cherish of my loved ones. I have several in my bedroom, at the walls and on the dresser.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117283)
• El Paso, Texas
11 Mar 17
Exactly @marguicha I haven't been able to get a good 8x10 enlargement from any of the digital shots I've taken, they always look so grainy.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
12 Mar 17
I have scanned all my black and white photos and loaded them in my cam folder. So far so good. No I do not have a pen drive but hoping nothing untoward will happen to my disk. Sometime ago when I had to format my technician misplaced my cam folder and I thought I had lost it for good but accidentally I found it. It has well over 1000 photos.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117283)
• El Paso, Texas
14 Mar 17
I never took black and white photos but the ones that are from the old Kodak I had have not been transferred. I have no idea how many photos I took over the past 50 years
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Jabo
@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
11 Mar 17
As you know, I'm not much of a photographer, but I just keep my photos in files on the computer. That's a lovely shot of Ally - she must be the most photographed dog in the world.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117283)
• El Paso, Texas
12 Mar 17
I know, but you take some really good ones. And yes, I think she might just be over photographed but who wouldn't with that mug, right? This is my favorite accident I've gotten, its just a shame I didn't clean house before snapping that shot.
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DianneN
@DianneN (254926)
• United States
11 Mar 17
I'm so happy you were able to retrieve this photo! It is a beauty! My photos are backed up on two separate things. Don't ask me what. I'm clueless. Hope you get the others.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117283)
• El Paso, Texas
11 Mar 17
I'll have to look that up @DianneN I can't recall ever hearing of one of those before.
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rebelann1949
@rebelann (117283)
• El Paso, Texas
11 Mar 17
Thank you so much. I need to be spending time trying to figure out how to set up my old PC to use as a storage unit, it has Windows 7 on it but I don't plan to ever use it online again. I've got so many irons in the fire right now, I've started 3 projects out of which one is coming along nicely and unfortunately it's not the weed pulling, that's seems to be an unending project
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DianneN
@DianneN (254926)
• United States
11 Mar 17
@rebelann At least you are keeping busy. My husband told me we have a separate My Book at home, which backs up every single photo. We bought it at Best Buy last May.
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