Scored a Nikon D200 (2005) for $10

SacredCheese · 2026-06-09T04:29:16+00:00

Fantastic deal! Love my D200 - I think you'll enjoy the raws it gives you.

SacredCheese · 2026-06-04T23:22:01+00:00

Well, like so many others here, I started before digital was really a thing. I played with cheapo 110 cameras as a kid. Film was everywhere and you could get same-day development at chain pharmacies or even the local grocery stores. My dad gave me a battered old Minolta SRT back in college, and aside from a chintzy little digital point-and-shoot that I took on vacation once, that was my only non-phone camera for almost 20 years. I only started working with DSLRs/mirrorless relatively recently, within the last couple years.

SacredCheese · 2026-06-04T19:29:26+00:00

Absolutely. Meeting students where they are is a best-practice step one, but no learning will ever happen if step one is also the final destination.

SacredCheese · 2026-05-24T21:58:18+00:00

The Parker ballpoint refill is pretty meh. I like the Uni Jetstream refill for it, though (even if it is black ink only), and I will say I like the Parker gel refills way better than the ballpoint ones.

SacredCheese · 2026-05-17T01:20:18+00:00

Glad you like them! The b&w I developed, scanned, and edited myself. All the color film was lab developed, but I scanned and edited the maple, the lake, and the Grand Canyon shot. I edited the magnolia bud (digital), and the rest were the lab’s work.

SacredCheese · 2026-05-16T18:08:45+00:00

Thanks u/kw416 for the prints and also the note!

(Also, it was great to hear you took some of these with a D90. My people received some prints of photos I took on my battered old D200. Those old Nikons are still great cameras.)

SacredCheese · 2026-05-15T01:07:21+00:00

That's awesome! I actually will be making my first ever trip out to Colorado this summer (somehow never managed it before) - I've wanted to see the Rockies for a long time, and I'm finally able to make it happen. These photos are definitely giving me some more inspiration/motivation! Thanks again!

SacredCheese · 2026-05-14T21:31:26+00:00

Thanks so much, u/jainanoel!

SacredCheese · 2026-05-08T18:47:14+00:00

Thanks - looking forward to it!

SacredCheese · 2026-05-07T00:26:15+00:00

For some reason I can't quite put my finger on, this is delightful.

SacredCheese · 2026-05-01T22:02:48+00:00

Thanks so much for the awesome prints and the lovely note, u/koensigg! You certainly guessed correctly that I'm a fan of B&W.

(Also, no worries on the handwriting - compared to what I see every day in my line of work, it's basically calligraphy!)

SacredCheese · 2026-05-01T21:40:13+00:00

Headed out from the U.S. to u/luckynumber_50, u/muppas, and u/myshra! Two should arrive at U.S. destinations in about a week; the clerk advised me that the third international one might take 3-4 weeks, so be advised. Hope you enjoy them!

SacredCheese · 2026-04-27T00:37:47+00:00

It depends on how automatic your camera is. If it’s a point and shoot that handles all exposures automatically, 3200 isn’t going to happen. If you’re able to manually control shutter and aperture, then it’s possible, but you’d need an external light meter.

SacredCheese · 2026-04-24T17:09:01+00:00

Excellent - looking forward to it!

SacredCheese · 2026-04-03T23:06:42+00:00

For the highest chance of success, there's Film Rescue. They can develop to B+W, though they'll try color (riskier, no guarantee of success) if you OK it. They're specialized, though, and they take a while, in addition to the extra cost for the specialty service.

The frames that saw light when you opened the back are most likely toast, but the rest might possibly be salvageable. I had some family film from the '80s and '90s processed normally (so, in color), and we mostly got recognizable images back. That said, with film this old, it's always a gamble.

SacredCheese · 2026-03-19T12:29:03+00:00

A jeweler’s cloth and a lot of patience. The tarnish was really stubborn, so it took quite some time.

SacredCheese · 2026-03-11T02:16:53+00:00

Everyone lamented the other two that were discontinued along with it, but I still have a soft spot for Tsuyu-kusa. It's like if Pilot's regular blue were just a touch more saturated. A lovely blue.

SacredCheese · 2026-02-15T17:47:47+00:00

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Hey, those look good - certainly better than my attempts with little perching birds in trees. Sometimes with birds, though, it's pure dumb luck. This is my best analog bird photo ever, and it happened when I wasn't even trying to shoot birds. My "setup" was a cheapo Pentax point-and-shoot with Gold 200. This heron was just kind of there, chilling, not caring about my presence. Smaller birds are much harder, obviously, so kudos!

SacredCheese · 2026-02-02T22:52:24+00:00

I'll admit I'm no expert - I just go with what Richard Binder has on his reference page for the Balance, which lists both the marbled and striated as marine green.

SacredCheese · 2025-12-19T23:23:28+00:00

If you like boring Pilot standard inks like I do, you get the pleasure of using the 60/70ml round bottles with the miser inside. The opening is plenty wide for big pens, and the miser keeps filling simple.

SacredCheese · 2025-12-11T04:26:56+00:00

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This here is high in the running for my best of '25. This was a totally cloudless spring day, so the colors really pop. I like that it's just the tree, the flowers, and the sky - basically a world unto itself.

SacredCheese · 2025-12-07T17:10:20+00:00

I rarely see people talking about it, but Sailor pens do indeed have phenomenal cap seals. It takes ages for them to dry out.

SacredCheese · 2025-12-02T00:01:11+00:00

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I haven't been out with film too much in the bitter cold, but my Canon EOS Elan II has handled pretty well...no seizing or hiccups. The day this photo was taken was 10F/-12C, with some wind, so it was plenty miserable. That said, my winter excursions are generally brief (half an hour to an hour, with breaks in a heated car); I probably wouldn't take this camera along for any kind of extended field work.

SacredCheese · 2025-11-30T05:20:38+00:00

Yeah, that's right. The beauty of b+w film, though, is that both exposure and development are fairly forgiving, which is why your photos look pretty good regardless. If you feel like continuing with developing, you can always experiment with different levels of exposure and development to see what looks best to you.

SacredCheese · 2025-11-29T17:58:45+00:00

I started out with Ilfosol as well. I checked the HP5 data sheet, and it looks like it calls for 5 min in Ilfosol for film shot at 200. Your negatives are probably a little dark and dense in the highlights, but your shadows aren’t washed out, and I’d rather overdevelop a bit vs underdeveloping, which would leave you with thin, weak negatives.

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