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frontpageItsSoCheap | Staff posted Sep 08, 2025 04:57 AM
Kodak Ektar H35N 35mm Half-Frame Film Camera w/ Ultramax 400 Film (5 Colors)
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My .02... if you have no experience in photography and want to play around with settings cheaply, get yourself an older dSLR. The ability to see results immediately and not have to pay and wait for processing are key.
If you just want to dip your toes into film, in particular the half-frame fad, this Kodak is not a bad option at all. There are hardly any settings to mess around with. You could hand it to a six year old and they would quickly figure it out.
Why does it bother you that people like this stuff? So cringe.
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Also, FWIW I own several SLR cameras, 1 was my father's and the others I've purchased over the years on ebay and at my LCS and none of them have any of the issues others mentioned here, they all work perfectly fine. Minolta, Pentax, Olympus -- all great brands. I would encourage anyone curious to dive in and have fun with it, the feeling of shooting film on a heavy metal camera with great mechanics and build quality is second to none and can't be replicated by a DSLR. DSLRs are great for so many reasons but some of that SOVL was certainly lost in the advancement of technology. Good luck!
A lot of people develop themselves. You don't need a full dark room - there are affordable processing kits that can be used on the kitchen table. I haven't used them, but I know people who have and claim it's not that hard.
There are plenty of services online where you can mail film in to get processed.
If all else fails, I'm pretty sure Wally World (Walmart) still develops film. A lot of Walgreens locations do, too. CVS doesn't do any on-site development. It's all mailed to one processing plant, then back to the local store. So it might take two or three weeks depending on where you live.
So, still lots of options. Just have to be a little more patient than we were back in the one hour photo days.
- If you want to process at home, I'd start off with B&W film instead of color negative. It's a lot more forgiving and in general requires one less step (but there are exceptions).
- If you are mailing it out to get processed, I would look at slide film instead of color negative. You won't get prints, but you can scan the slides at home using a scanner or camera adapter. Once you compare slides with color negatives, you won't want to go back, unless you are want for that color-negative "look".
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A Chinese company purchased Kodak Alaris's paper and chemistry division.
The core American-based film and photographic products company, Eastman Kodak, is not Chinese-owned and is headquartered in Rochester, New York.
You can degrade the image if you want your digital to look like film.
old slr's very often have a leaky light seal and they cost time and money to replace if even possible. While I love my old Pentax SE Super, Canon A1, and a Minolta/Ricoh slrs, they are all heavy and bulky, and even more so with a flash on top. They have their place for sure, but these Kodak's do a great job with grabbing a nice image so effortlessly and are super light and compact. Nothing digital comes close to the look of film.
You might love it, but it is still an ME Super.
You can degrade the image if you want your digital to look like film.
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