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Seems like you just came back form a space mission. 50 years long mission and you missed all the memos about Earth history in that period.I have not shot film for years. I had no idea that they made film cameras with LCDs. Seems like putting a sound system in a horse buggy.
As for scanning film: I truly believe that for the majority of amateurs and hobbyists, and most professionals as well, (except pro's who demand high-dollar drum scan type levels of quality) that the NEWEST-era digital cameras (24 to 50 megapixels on APS-C or FX), when paired with a quality flat field macro lens and a decent light source, are producing better digitized images from film than the vast majority of scanners, and are doing the work faster, easier, and with fewer bad dust and scratch effects. My admittedly limited research has turned up examples of 24-megapixel and 36-megapixel d-slr "scans" of slides and negatives that look BETTER, flat-out better, than the results of most scanners. So, I think moving forward, we'll see more and more people moving to digital camera set-ups using the equivalent of old-school "slide duplicator" set-ups as the easy and productive way to transfer film-captured images into pixel-built images!
Digital scanning opened up an entirely different perspective of my film, both negatives and transparencies....
As for scanning film: I truly believe that for the majority of amateurs and hobbyists, and most professionals as well, (except pro's who demand high-dollar drum scan type levels of quality) that the NEWEST-era digital cameras (24 to 50 megapixels on APS-C or FX), when paired with a quality flat field macro lens and a decent light source, are producing better digitized images from film than the vast majority of scanners, and are doing the work faster, easier, and with fewer bad dust and scratch effects. My admittedly limited research has turned up examples of 24-megapixel and 36-megapixel d-slr "scans" of slides and negatives that look BETTER, flat-out better, than the results of most scanners. So, I think moving forward, we'll see more and more people moving to digital camera set-ups using the equivalent of old-school "slide duplicator" set-ups as the easy and productive way to transfer film-captured images into pixel-built images!
Good advice, but not for people who don't like "old hard core".If the LCD on you F5 is failing, and this a major issue for you.
Then use a film camera without a LCD. Simple straightforward solution.
Even more so, use a fully manual camera, so you do not need batteries.
That frees you from the potential of the battery becoming difficult/impossible to get, as the mercury batteries became.
Good advice, but not for people who don't like "old hard core".
Good advice, but not for people who don't like "old hard core".
Film is film, with or without LCD. I don't know but maybe film isn't for you if a small LCD screen is so critical that you can't shoot film without it.
LCD is not critical but the joy of using a specific camera and film is what makes film still an attractive option. This along with the challenge of creating high quality images without any of the aids a digital camera provides. I also have no intention on post processing anything digitally I shoot with film. Defeats the purpose of using film at all. Who here processes their film pics? Why? Might as well shoot digital.
I think a more accurate title for this thread is "Did I just witness the end of me going back to film using my Nikon F5 because I can't use that camera without the LCD screen".
Good advice, but not for people who don't like "old hard core".If the LCD on you F5 is failing, and this a major issue for you.
Then use a film camera without a LCD. Simple straightforward solution.
Even more so, use a fully manual camera, so you do not need batteries.
That frees you from the potential of the battery becoming difficult/impossible to get, as the mercury batteries became.