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Kinda/Sorta Gun Related....Anyone here still using film SLR cameras? |
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Posts: 738 (11/09/09 09:18 PM) active member |
I ran across a couple of our SLR cameras the other day. I've had a Minolta X-700 since the early '80s and my wife has a Pentax K-1000. Since I lack
the funds to go out and get a decent DSLR, think it's worth buying a few used lenses (cheap now) and using them? Or should I just save that money towards
a DSLR?
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Posts: 743 (11/09/09 09:51 PM) active member |
Greg, this is a great time to get an analog (film) camera. Bodies, lenses and accessories for those two systems are abundant and generally can be found at
bargain prices... provided you know what to watch out for. There is no reason to settle for cracked focusing screen, broken meters, fungus in the lenses, etc.
Go to these two sites for more info on buying and using the gear, as well as printmaking, by wet darkroom or digital photo printer. Apug.org and rangefinderforum.com are also good places to look for used gear and ask questions about any aspect of photography. Try the Minolta Manual Focus Group, as well as other Yahoo Groups for specific camera types. Eli
"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~ Thomas Jefferson ~
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Posts: 739 (11/09/09 10:07 PM) active member |
Both camera bodies are mint. I hardly used mine through high school. It's 35 or so years old now, but I believe the foam is still in top shape. It came
with a std 50mm portrait lense, and I'd like to add a few. However, I need to learn how to use the thing!
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Posts: 3951 (11/09/09 10:38 PM) Forum Site Moderator |
Great question! I collect antique camera, have about 100 of them, many SLR's. I still use the camera handed down from my father, a 1960's model Milolte
SRT 101. My favorite. Digitals have their place but you can't beat a mechanical Leica or old Japanese camera. Like the difference between an AR and a
Garand. Both do the job, but the style is different.
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Posts: 3952 (11/09/09 10:44 PM) Forum Site Moderator |
eli griggs wrote: Eli, were you able to use those feathers last year? I'm getting ready to murder another turkey, Thanksgiving is coming. Let me know if you need more feathers. 
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Posts: 944 (11/09/09 10:51 PM) |
Greg,
We have 2 digitals - one Panasonic 7.1 MP that looks like a cigarette pack ($129) and another Panasonic Lumix FZ-8 that looks like a baby SLR, with a 12:1 optical zoom Leica lense (about $300). However, I still hang on to an old-model Canon F1 that I got used in '83 or '84 and an FTb body. I have about seven lenses, two big flash units, etc. The resolution of 35 mm is still an order of magnitude better than a 7.1 MP camera, and the capabilities I have with all the lenses/flash units would be cost prohibitive (for me) to duplicate in digital. So I hang on to the 35 mm for the times when I need the results. I had two medium-format cameras and my own color darkroom back in the day, but sold that stuff off a few years back when I could still get something for it (and spend the proceeds on old rifles). Crunch |
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Posts: 692 (11/10/09 12:09 AM) Veteran member |
I treasure my Mamiya/Sekor 1000DTL, Miranda Sensorex and Minolta SRT 101. Like a steel and walnut milsurp, they feel like a real piece of machinery assembled by craftsmen, not like a toy stamped out on an assembly line by some low paid drone. I found a website by a photography instructor, she said she told her students to get a late 1960s/early 1970s SLR, not only were they more solidly built than later models, but their mechanical operation allowed students to learn the steps of photography better than an automatic camera. |
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Posts: 740 (11/10/09 12:26 AM) active member |
Really, to me the true benefit if a DSLR is the low cost of taking 100s of pictures and not havng to sift through a lot of bad exposures post development. I
have an auto winder for my X-700, so I can do sporting event kind of shooting, I just need to develop the skill to execute photos well and understand the
basics of how to get this type of shot or that type of shot. It's an art form. Digital allows to you make a lot of mistakes without cost, so that's the
true upside.
Being a musician, digital has become an integrated way of life in that world too. But I imagine, much like photography, digital looses the warmth of "analog" or mechanical things. Doc, I work with a guy who's a collector as well. He's into Leica and Russian copy cameras. He has quite a collection. Greg |
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Posts: 16496 (11/10/09 06:08 AM) Owner/operator |
I still use my Canon A1.
Parallax
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Posts: 5721 (11/10/09 09:37 AM) Forum Site Moderator
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I think that Canon & Pentax both make digital SLR bodies that can mount and use their older 35mm series lenses (K-Mount only for Pentax). So, if you do
not already have a 35mm system, you may want to look at one of these two brands so that you can continue to use the lenses when you upgrade later to a digital
body.
I have a full Minolta system XD-11, X-700, SRT-101, SRT-202, and over 25 different lenses. Unfortunately, Minolta's digital SLR bodies can not use any of these "old" series lenses. There is actually a modification that can be made to a Canon digital SLR body, so that it can use the older Minolta-brand lenses, but it voids the warranty on the Canon body.
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Posts: 1400 (11/10/09 10:13 AM) Veteran member |
I still use my Nikkormat FTN and Nikon FE. Wonderful tools that do a superb job, and they've been in my hands so long I can use them without any conscious
thought!
Of course, there are those who believe that I do everything that way!!! Price and availability of good film and processing is becoming an issue however. |
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Posts: 741 (11/10/09 10:22 AM) active member |
Well, I picked up a 2nd K-1000 and 4 lenses for $50, so I'll play with these. I may pick up a book on photography basics and see how I do. You guys have
inspired me.
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Posts: 3956 (11/10/09 11:52 AM) Forum Site Moderator |
Price is not a reason to buy mechanical camera. Even if they were free, the processing will get you. But we don't collect antique walnut and machined steel
rifles to save money. We respect and enjoy the workmanship, the feel, the sound of the action. It's a tactile thing a digital camera can't provide. I
take 99% of my pictures with a digital, but still enjoy a 'real' camera from time to time.
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Posts: 86 (11/10/09 02:20 PM) |
I used to work full time in photography and, like one guy in a previous post, sold my medium format Hasselblad when I could still get something for it.
However, I still keep my Canon EOS SLR equipment in hopes to get a digital one later....since I am not a pro anymore, the purchase of one has been put on the
back burner. As for the quality though, the rubberized grips on that Canon have detiriorated into a sticky mess....and the camera is not even as old as Pentax
1000K you all were talking about:)
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Posts: 121 (11/13/09 07:37 AM) active member |
I still shoot a 1976 Minolta SRT202. The size and weight of that old steel camera just give you a sense of quality that you don't get from a modern plastic
camera. You get the same feeling from handling a garand. It just fits your hands like it was made with a full grown human in mind unlike some of the newest
sub-miniature cameras and cell phones that were designed for pockets and not hands.
I must say though, I always get prints and a cd so that I can play with the images on the computer.
Montani Semper Liberi
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