Two really nice Canons.

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I got an F4 for less than 175 dollars a couple of months ago. I've shot 5 rolls with it, discovered my film scanner is on the fritz, so I'm trying to get that fixed.

But commercial processing is all I can do, and it's expensive. Their prints suck, if you ask for them on CD they scan at about 1.5 megapixels, so I went with "develop only."

As for that AE-1, one of those was my first SLR, "stolen" in 1982 from a friend of my sister's who got one for his birthday and didn't want it. I jokingly offered him the 90-some bucks I had in my wallet at that moment, and he accepted. Brand new AE-1 with 50/1.4! Deal!

When that was my daily shooter I shot Kodachrome slides. They can't mess those up at the lab! What develops is what you shot!

I'd forgotten how much work (and $$$) film is!!!!

Yep, I kinda laugh every time I hear about film or anyone bought an old film camera to use. I always wonder, what are they gonna do with it and how much will that cost them. Really funny. However, I find the quality of pictures produced by film cameras are way much overrated.

I remember the days when I used film cameras and used to make prints at Walgreens that used to allow people to look at their prints one by one to pay only for the sharp shots, and sometimes I used to end up buying less than five out of the whole film because the rest were not useable and get out of the store very disappointed and stay angry with myself for weeks because valuable pictures that I took in one in a lifetime trip were not any good. At times I used to get so frustrate unable to come up a good one and dump everything (print and film) in a big commercial size garbage can that they had and was usually full of useless prints and films belonged to other frustrated film camera users, pay the film processing fees and get out with nothing. I'd never go back to those days.