daveh
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Post by daveh on Jun 3, 2010 16:21:27 GMT -5
Possibly, but it got back on track with Wayne - just.
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Doug T.
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Post by Doug T. on Jun 20, 2010 18:35:19 GMT -5
I take both with me. The digital put the fun back in my outings, but I still carry a mechanical camera, usually with black & white film. The film cameras force me to think more about what I'm doing. Different mediums, same principles. I'd even enjoy doing some calotypes or other old processes. Oh yes, and Spike Jones was a lot of fun to listen to. 78rpms? Doug
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Post by keith on Jun 10, 2011 0:06:02 GMT -5
I am new here too. I had a Minolta 600si which was stolen and insurance replaced it with a Sony A350 which is fully compatible with Minolta. I have my old A mount lenses (28-80 and 70-300) which fit the Sony although the APS-C sensor makes them big telephoto lenses.
I have a collection of vitage cameras dating from 1914 to the present.
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Post by mickeyobe on Jun 10, 2011 4:45:21 GMT -5
Welcome Keith,
You have found a compatible home here.
Mickey
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Post by herron on Jun 10, 2011 10:08:50 GMT -5
I am new here too. I had a Minolta 600si which was stolen and insurance replaced it with a Sony A350 which is fully compatible with Minolta. I have my old A mount lenses (28-80 and 70-300) which fit the Sony although the APS-C sensor makes them big telephoto lenses. I have a collection of vitage cameras dating from 1914 to the present. Welcome, Keith. You're in a good place here.
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Post by daveh on Jun 10, 2011 16:54:32 GMT -5
Keith, welcome. It's good to have you here. Will you be photographing any of the Rugby World Cup?
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Post by yashica1943 on Sept 9, 2013 16:58:06 GMT -5
After a lot of deliberation I decided that I needed a DSLR after spending an afternoon trying to take pictures of a watersports event on a local beach in strong sunshine with a digital compact. Total guesswork. So have invested in a Nikon D3100 with some extra bits.
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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 10, 2013 7:42:49 GMT -5
Another wise man who would rather switch than fight.
Guaranteed to satisfy.
With the money you wll save on film and processing you will soon make up the cost of your new equipment.
Mickey
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2013 12:12:10 GMT -5
We'll be leaving next week on a 12-day trip and between us we'll probably shoot at least 1,500 photos -- if not more. That would be 60+ 24-exposure rolls of 35mm film. Fuji Superia 24-exp is now going for $11 for 4 rolls on Amazon, so if we were shooting film that cost alone would be at least $176 U.S. Processing a Wallgreens would be about $700. Compare that to the cost of shooting the same number of digital images --ignoring for the moment the fact that you will know what your images look like while still on the scene. And when I get home I can select the best images and have them printed at a nearby drug store of print them myself --cropping them just the way I want them.
I'm like Mickey. I love the mechanical film cameras I have collected and like to hold and operate the mechanisms just because of the "feel." If I was smart I probably would try to sell most of them while they still are worth a little bit. But now I have the cameras cameras that bring back memories and also the cameras that I lusted after but could never afford so I will probably hang onto them and our kids will have to figure out how to dispose of them (they'll remember me for that!).
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Post by yashica1943 on Sept 11, 2013 8:58:54 GMT -5
I could put this on the ebay bargains page, but I bought a Nikon D3100, mint condition with 361 shutter actuations, the kit lens plus a Tamron 70-300 zoom, a battery grip with two Nikon batteries installed, 16 Gb card, screen protector nice camera bag, charger, all documents, and discs and a sturdy tripod. For around the new price of the Body and the 18-55 kit lens on its own. Not the ultimate, ultimate bargain, but everything is as new with not a mark on it. I have been using it and it is fine, I shot off about 20 exposures in a few seconds of a bee walking around the top of a flower. 2 acceptable pictures, couldn't do that with any of my film cameras. A real bargain?
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Post by matty on Sept 22, 2013 12:13:39 GMT -5
I've joined the dark side as well, in my usual cheapskate manner. A mate in work has sold me his Canon EOS 1000D, £100 with a 36-78 zoom, I bought a Sigma 80-300 zoom to go with it for £99 and a chipped M42 adaptor. A couple of weeks ago I found an EOS film body with another 36-78 zoom and a Canon 80-200 zoom for a tenner at the car boot. They are a bit fungusy (is that a real word) so they have been sat on the window ledge in the sun since I got them. I'm going to take them out in the next couple of days and check if the picture quality is effected. I have been looking at wide angle lens as that is the one thing I do miss, with the Canon's crop factor all my wide angle glass comes out at about a 45mm equivalent. So when I found a Nikon D3000 with the 18-55 zoom I sort of solved my problem. I'm not sure my wife quite understands the logic of this but it was only £100 in a pawn shop so I couldn't miss this bargain. Matty
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