Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kyonshi Newsgroups: rec.toys.lego Subject: Re: Lego 35mm camera Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:20:13 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:20:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d70ed6926eace671f3f49a72b644cb26"; logging-data="280013"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19KXiXNW73BorYJE7y9vUDl" User-Agent: Betterbird (Windows) Hamster/2.1.0.1548 Cancel-Lock: sha1:4jnHXv9yXOWUfTO7cJx6vJxxAHQ= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2556 On 4/21/2024 5:44 AM, Eli the Bearded wrote: > In rec.toys.lego, Kyonshi wrote: >> On 4/14/2024 5:16 AM, Eli the Bearded wrote: >>> This Lego Ideas proposal for a working 35mm camera, using the existing >>> magnifying lens, looks wonderful. A bit over 6000 votes now and abot 150 >>> days to reach the 10,000 mark. >>> >>> https://ideas.lego.com/projects/87367099-a72a-4796-afa7-895a58ed932a >> Ohhh, and functional as well? >> but where do we get the film to use in that one? > > I can walk ten minutes and be at a photo shop selling and developing > 35mm and medium format film. I expect Amazon will see it to you too, but > they won't develop. I mostly shoot subminiature with film and > development from Blue Moon Camera out of Portland, Oregon (not my state, > let alone walkable). > I assume I could get film somewhere in this city. There must be a place still selling it. There's an art academy and a few photographers here. But I also don't have any conscious memory of seeing any because I haven't actually used a camera with film for the last... 20 years already? And even then I was using an old camera I got as a kid. > > The appeal of a dancing bear isn't that the bear dances well, but the > bear dances at all. > true that -- email: gmkeros@gmail.com microblog: https://dice.camp/@kyonshi macroblog: https://gmkeros.wordpress.com pictures: https://portfolio.pixelfed.de/kyonshi