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November 20, 2006 Archive

November 20, 2006

Calling all cameras! Except digital ones, that is...

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Remember 35 mm. film cameras? You know the ones. They require that rolled up spool of plastic, the kind that becomes a negative that you print your photos from? Yeah, those film cameras, with F-stops and shutterspeeds... It's a fuzzy memory for lots of us.

That's because digital cameras are fast replacing them.

Major manufacturers like Nikon have stopped making 35 mm. film cameras except for those at the very high end. And Minolta has stopped making them altogether.

That's got Andy Howard worried. Howard is a photographer and professor of art at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachussetts. He wants his students to know how to use film cameras, so he's calling for donations.



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