So you Photo Nuts:::

[Mk1inCali]

I went home for t-giving today and grabbed my dad's old-ass Canon TX.  It's got a Canon FD 50mm 1:1.8 S.C. MIJ lense.  On the top of the body there is "299223" to the left of the flash mount.

Any ideas on dating it?  What's the hot film to use for landscape/every-day use now?  Best of the cheap places to get the film developed?

[FearedGS500]

cheapest place to have it  developed is probly at wal-mart .. we charge 22 cents a coppy ........

[Cal Price]

Not too sure about the US models but if the body is metal it's probably 60s/70s if it is resin then 80s/early 90s onwards. Nice lens, great way to learn the "propper" rudiments of photography. If Kerry reapears on the forum he has several Canon film cameras, I helped him find some kit for classes he was doing a while back.

Can't be any more help than that all my film kit is Olympus and digital kit is Nikon.

[Mk1inCali]

Bump.

[Alphamazing]

Googled Canon TX, came out that it was manufactured between September of 1974 (marketed in 1975) through 1979, was an export only model (not sold in Japan) and only had 1/500 as the highest shutter speed. It was essentially a cheaper version of the FTb.

[Chilly Willy]

As far as film recommendations go, check out www.kenrockwell.com.  His site is awesome in it's depth of information.

When I'm shooting black and white, I use Illford HP5+ because that's what I learned how to develop on.  With color, I use Velvia 100 slide film and then just scan it in on a Nikon slide scanner (at least I used to before my D200).

Chilly

[aaronstj]

+1 on HP5, for black and white.  In my experience, though, black and white is really only reasonable if you're developing film yourself (if you're anywhere near a college, you really should try it).  Otherwise, color film.  I don't really have a preference for color film, but I like Kodak Gold.

[Cal Price]

Ilford's HP5 is a great monochrome film - Ilford always had a great rep for monochromes, I started with HP3, HP4 and HPS which was a grainy high speed offering often used for floodlit sports by newspaper guys.

Ilfords colour offerings were pretty dire, I don't know if they market any nowadays.  As for the rest, Kodak gold is good but a lot of people recon that Kodak tends to "overdo" reds and perhaps greens so it is always colourful. Try it and see if you don't like it there are loads out there most notably Agfa and Fuji, I dont know about the US but here a lot of "own brands" are pretty good, a lot of them come from what used to be "Eastern" Germany which always had a quality and viable camera and photographic tradition and industry.

[Mk1inCali]

Yeah, I took a photo class in HS and learned how to develop there.  Got pretty good at it, from what my teacher said.


I might get back into that, but I don't know if I want to dedicate that kind of money right now into something I can do, effectively free with my digital P&S.


I'll try some Kodak Gold and see what I think over the weekend.  I feel like going for a ride and shoot.  That'd be good to compare the digital with the old one and see how I feel about the process of getting shots off on each.

[Chilly Willy]

When you drop your film off, get a disc made.  That way you can manipulate all of your shots, email them to friends, etc.

Chilly

[aaronstj]

+1 to getting a disc made.  I don't get prints anymore, if I shoot a roll of film for whatever reason.  I just get the film developed and get a cd with the photos on them.