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You couldn't give me ANY 35mm camera. I don't care what it is, Leica, Hasselblad or EVEN a Kodak!

Really, you should look into a digital trail camera. Some of the higher end ones take wonderful pics. And anyways, what do you really want to print pics of anyway?

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i am sure you could but it is a never ending money pit, in the big picture it may be more cost efficient to buy a new cam and an SD card. I looked on Amazon and they have plenty. Check it out and see if its what you are looking for.

Pretty much what I was going to say. The digital trail cams are pretty reasonably priced right now.

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It looks like Walgreens has sales and processing for film. A quick search on Google ("35 millimeter filmprocessing") gives all kinds of sources for buying fim as well as getting it purchased.

I too would recommend switching to all digital, but that isn't what you asked.

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Yes it is available but getting tougher to find. Yes you can get it developed but also getting more expensive and less common. I think that 35mm will take better pictures than some of the older/cheaper digitals but the ones with higher pixel counts are sharper. The older Moultrie I have with a white flash makes the eyes look like softballs from the reflection on them and I don't really care for that.

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I have a 35mm trail cam that I havn't used in years . I used to get ticked when I would get a roll of film developed and only have a couple of good pics . It doesn't matter with a digital camera .

I didn't realize that there ever were any "film" cameras used as trail-cams. I would assume that they were all daylight only cams ...... right?

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I didn't realize that there ever were any "film" cameras used as trail-cams. I would assume that they were all daylight only cams ...... right?

No...cams like Stealth had a cheap integrated cam. High end units, like a photo hunter, had an actual camera in it, similar to a home brew nowaday. The flash came from the actual camera. I have books and books of photos from my photo hunters. Back then I was just excited to get a buck on film...looking back I've got quite a few 120-130 class bucks, and just didn't know how to hunt them then.

Here is a photo hunter..went for about $250-300 back in the day. I giggled like a school girl when checking the two I had. People were in amazement such things existed. I actually had to start driving to other towns to have my film developed. Stupid clerks at the photo booth would see them and blab and everyone knew I had a good buck or two.

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I didn't realize that there ever were any "film" cameras used as trail-cams. I would assume that they were all daylight only cams ...... right?

I had one of the cheap Stealth 35mm with a white flash.  That thing ran for five years and in that time it didn't spend one single night in the house.  Someone gave it to me for Christmas, I hung it on 12/26 and never brought it back inside.  After all that time it finally gave up the ghost but I got albums full of pictures out of it.

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I didn't realize that there ever were any "film" cameras used as trail-cams. I would assume that they were all daylight only cams ...... right?

Well, that was a dumb comment ..... lol. Of course they have had flash capability. Just a slight brain-fart. It happens occasionally if you get old enough .... ha-ha-ha.

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I remember the origional Camtrakkers were 35mm. They went for $400!! I wanted one soooo bad, but just couldn't justify the $$! Ended up learning how to build 35mm homebrews for ~$120. Made several for myself and friends. That was back in the day when we had a LOT of turkeys in my area. I remember on several occasions, having a flock of turkeys walk by, blowing through an ENTIRE roll of film within minutes!!! LOL  Thankfully, the place where I always had the film developed had a policy, so that you only paid for the pics that you wanted to keep! 

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