And now Costco is getting outta the photo printing
. I’ve used them many many times for digital printing, framed printing, etc. 
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20 years of owning a digital camera
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And now Costco is getting outta the photo printing
. I’ve used them many many times for digital printing, framed printing, etc.
In 2007 I moved from Zenit-E to Olympus E-510. The next camera was a Nikon D5000. Zenit-E's picture quality was better than both of them. The third Nikon D750 camera is currently in use. Now the hand is no longer reaching for Zenit-E.
Before each exposure with the Zenit, the light was metered with a Leningrad-2 exposure meter (found in the trash) and it worked well. I currently use Seconic L-478D for this.
Before each exposure with the Zenit, the light was metered with a Leningrad-2 exposure meter (found in the trash) and it worked well. I currently use Seconic L-478D for this.
I started using digital in 1994 with the Kodak AP NC2000 for what was the third newspaper in the country at the time to go digital. But I never stopped using film and never will, that to me is like saying you are upgrading from an acoustic guitar to an electric, why punt a great method of working that you do brilliant work with because someone tells you something new fangled is better?
I will fully retire from 35 years of commercial photography later this year and only do fine art, picked up a new 102MP Hasselblad X2D last week to go with my Hasselblad film system which I love printing from in the darkroom.
Film has made a wonderful and deserved come back in a niche form in recent years and is a great partner to digital at this point in time.
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My last ILC was the 2015 Canon EOS 5Ds R 51 megapixel dSLR body.
I do not see a reason to replace no earlier than 2025.
iPhone's been good enough for the last decade.
My 1st digital camera was the 1996 Kodak DC20. It was no better than camera phones before the 2007 iPhone 2G.
If I could have a do over I'd have just kept to the three fast zoom lens
- EF 16-35mm f/2.8
- EF 24-70mm f/2.8
- EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS
Then replace every decade
Other lenses are nice to have but for people photography to document key life/family events those three lenses would be sufficient.
I do not see a reason to replace no earlier than 2025.
iPhone's been good enough for the last decade.
My 1st digital camera was the 1996 Kodak DC20. It was no better than camera phones before the 2007 iPhone 2G.
If I could have a do over I'd have just kept to the three fast zoom lens
- EF 16-35mm f/2.8
- EF 24-70mm f/2.8
- EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS
Then replace every decade
Other lenses are nice to have but for people photography to document key life/family events those three lenses would be sufficient.
I pulled my old Canon system out and started retaking B&W film. Even showed my 6y/o grandson how to develop film as a "granpa bonding" experience. (He loves lab work as his parents are both PhD biologist and he occasionally accompanies them to work). I am so tempted to sell my Canon system (2 bodies and 3 FD lens) and get a Hasselblad 500 series as they are now actually affordable. Could almost break even with a competing Bronica. I find it a lot easier to shoot 12 than trying to hit 36. Plus, one roll of 120 uses twice the chemicals of a single roll of 24/36 which would better match the open shelf life of the chemicals. Resetting up the darkroom is an issue. Never was a dedicated room but setup/takedown in windowless bathroom as would be in this house, but still have it stored away for "special occasions", but routinely go to direct digital scanning of the negative (or positive).
Go for it on the Hasselblad and you won't regret it.
I spent a long time waiting on one, and mine has honestly been one of the best camera purchases I've made. I bought it after jumping around to a whole bunch of different MF SLRs including Bronicas(S2a, SQ-A, and ETRS), and the only other MF SLR I bothered to keep was the Pentax 67.
As for chemicals-don't forget that developer capacity is a very real thing especially with developers like D76, and one roll of 120 has roughly the same surface area as one roll of 35mm-36. Regardless of the format, if you dilute D76 1:1 you still need about 16 oz. to develop a roll using published times.
And now Costco is getting outta the photo printing. I’ve used them many many times for digital printing, framed printing, etc.
That was a real disappointment for me. I always enjoyed going to my local Costco for their $9 20x30" prints, going back a dozen years.
Thinking back...I was skeptical at first, but seeing Costco used a professional Epson large format printer, I decided to give it a try as an experiment to see how B&W and color prints came out. Uploaded my digital files from home and picked up my prints the next day. They were superb. Outstanding color, and more importantly B&W prints with zero color cast.
Since then I used that service a lot for large prints, including prints for gallery exhibitions. I was always pleased with the results.
I'll now need to find another service next time I need to make large prints.