The camera thread.

i have an old manual nikkomat too, which is pretty sweet.

Digital, although my canon A20 is a very good camera (i think the current one is an A40) I recommend again one of the nikon coolpix cameras. They seem to have the best image quality going. For a really compact one then some of the sony and the canon digital ixus are great.

i also have a k1000 which has been disappointing actually - the only electronic part in the camera (the light meter) stops working at inopportune moments, and comes to life long after i've given up on enjoying taking photographs. the annoying part is that whenever i take it to get fixed it starts working as soon as the tech. opens the body, and its tempermental behaviour is apparently unfixable by even the greatest eastern european post-cold war camera experts.

The A40 is a bit bulky, but I've been really happy with it. Now that I've sampled the delights of the digital camera, I am *never* going back.

I have a gold 1981 Konica C35 EF3, which is v.v. nice except the battery cover's come off. My brother bought it for me secondhand for £8, which was very random of him.

He has a Yashica T5 which is the greatest thing ever with auto everything and it's waterproof.

I need to get a proper digital camera soon.

On the other hand, no one's ever going to confuse a picture taken by it with a 35mm negative scan, and I wouldn't use it at all if you wanted to get nice prints. It's so small & fast, though, that's it a great pocket camera to keep in your bag to use in addition to a manual SLR.

it's a cute camera:

http://user.itl.net/~kypfer/620/bflsh-2.jpg

w.out the ugly flash gun, ew.

i'm missing my medium format right now, but it was too fragile to lug over here and too big besides

The other way is to re-spool 120 film onto 620 spindles.

Lomo

I just put $600 on my credit card for a Nikon Coolscan V, I'm so excited to finally get some of my images in Photoshop and on the web. I don't need more debt, but it's a great price for a 4000dpi film scanner.

As for point-and-shoot, I've always had good results with my old Olympus XA-2, which should be available secondhand for under $100. It replaced a much fancier late-80s AF-10, which is even easier to use.

This year might be the time I go digital too - I've been sorting out boxes of negatives this afternoon; 66 rolls of film have run through Pam's Canon FTb SLR in the last three years and a good 30-40% of the shots are inevitably just dross - that's £150 on developing prints that will never been shown to anyone. Our Kodak MC3's just a toy really and since her Ixus died we could do with a cheap, light p&s ourselves. So, yeah, 2004 recommendations plz.

As for my 30-40% figure - well, it's not like the rest are publishable or anything, they're just interesting enough to go in the albums. The 30-40% are underexposed, out-of-focus, compositionally dull, inferior near-duplicates, people looking their worst, badly framed, etc, etc. We don't snap-snap-snap away, we can't afford to.

(the main reason I want a Nikon is that eventually I want to get one of their digital SLR bodies too, and then use the same lenses for digital and film shooting. I also have a late-70s Pentax ME)

Does anyone else put all of their photos thru Auto-Contrast in Photoshop (or similar) before uploading? It's no real use on poorly lit shots tho - not from an Ixus 55 at least. I'd say it improves two thirds of the photos I take though.

i don't believe there's any proper IS in the 100s, but they perform so well at high ISOs that i've been very satisfied shooting my night photos at my usual shutter-speed "floor" of 1/30 sec. not sure if they'd survive being blown up to REAL big prints, but i've got a lot of night shots i'm really happy with.

I, too, have a X100v. It is nice.

I bought a used Fuji X10 for $200 a few years back and it's been a lot of fun.. basically a point & shoot but the pics can be astounding if I pay attention to what I'm doing. I originally wanted a X100 but the zoom lens has come in really handy at times.

Im using an a9ii for my primary but i think fuji stuff replicates the structure of film grain better as the gain goes up

Fujis make great jpgs in camera. I've never been able to get comfortable using those instead of raw+editing but the X series film profiles are great.

yeah i shoot raw with mine, and flip around between the profiles in lightroom at the start of editing. then typically i either increase contrast/vibrance, or ease it back, and go from there.

still love my OG X100 but I hear the Vs are wonderful

by the way, for anyone mystified by the letter designations, it's
X100
X100S econd
X100T hird
X100F ourth
X100V (fifth but F was taken)

Also using an OG X100, mostly when I’m out hillwalking, and think it’s great.

omg i finally understand the naming

Good luck with naming the sixth model, Fuji.

Agreed on Fuji profiles and JPGs. But I trust the metering on my Canons a bit more; the evaluative mode there is a bit better than Fuji’s centre-weighted average so I still err on the side of raw for post.

Well I said I ordered it, but I ended up canceling after realizing it was a gray market model. It seems to be out of stock everywhere, but still intend to buy one once they come in.

I just went through the same thing with the X100V (love it) and struck out on the usual/larger online retailers but found that if you looked for regional/local camera stores w/online presence (seemed mostly in NE for whatever reason) there were a few who had 'em stocked, YMMV

How long til phones get to full frame
Never?

Yeah physics, we know

The camera bump would be quite the thing

I’m just going to tape my phone to my x70

just imagine the entire back of your phone is the sensor

just an entire plane for finger smudges

https://3.img-dpreview.com/files/p/E~TS590x0~articles/8974175294/ProductShots/Fujifilm_GFX_50R_X-E3_side-by-side.jpeg

Just watched a video on the rangefinder style medium format Fuji, looks so fun (if you've got $4500+lens laying around). Also has a crop mode to match the Hasselblad XPan I would have died for 20 years ago.

oooooh

I dream of medium format

Hired the Fuji GFX50S a few years ago for a (grey, wet) Easter weekend, with the 110/2.0 prime. It was pretty great, but a bit of a chunky beast. They seem to have streamlined the medium-format bodies.

My Bronica is still in the same place it's been for a couple of years, on a shelf. I really need to get back into it, with a drawer full of (expired) 120 film, but I say that every spring and... suddenly it's October.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_t_9LXcjBE

Looks even bigger in his hand than that still photo lol

Lovely stuff. Maybe I'll shoot at 24mm FF and crop everything to 2.71:1 for a while :)

The GFX was my first ever experience with an EVF, and it kind of spoils you for other lesser models. Wandering around looking at the world with an Acros filter was nice.

Here's the (then) 13yo toting the big bugger around Fitzrovia...

https://live.staticflickr.com/881/39491176020_4fa94fc5a1_b.jpg

And the (then) 11yo working the other Fuji, as shot with the GFX...

https://live.staticflickr.com/796/41237312082_16d9e812da_b.jpg

beast mode

fantastic!

https://i.tformers.com/g/generated/46865/Takara%20TOMY%20Canon%20EOS%20R5%20x%20TRANSFORMERS%20Optimus%20Prime%20Official%20Image%20(14)__scaled_800.jpg

(from https://tformers.com/takara-tomy-canon-eos-x-transformers-optimus-prime-r5-crossover-official-images/46865/news.html )

:)

Even has the tantalising dream of a L-grade pancake (optimus) prime on there.

Hilarious !

The light was fantastic today in London when the sun was out: everything crisp and clear, and trees and foliage drenched with light as if illuminated specifically for photographers. I took my EOS 5D out for the first time in quite a while, and the colours were fantastic. I particular like the way bright colours - such as red and orange - seem to almost pop out of photographs. For example a red and white polka dot blouse against a background of green foliage and a bright orange Vespa against grey brickwork. What a camera!

Let’s see some shots!

https://rollei35af.com/products/rollei-35af

Man, I want one of these… right until I consider how much film and developing cost and what a nightmare it is to scan.

Looks great

developing film and scanning it is not that bad to DIY, AMA

Pretty cool... Pentax has a new film camera out I think as well

The old Rollei 35mm mini's have held their value pretty well

i expressed a mild interest in returning to film photography and my dad (a former serious amateur photographer) gave me basically all of his old camera. several minoltas of different vintages, but also an old rollei 35s that's engraved with his name. the rollei is my favorite to use because of its size and feel but it's the hardest to use as someone who has forgotten all photography skills, since you can't see the focus through the viewfinder and have to work based just on estimated distance (i know there's a technical term for that but i'm blanking on it)

zone focusing

I thought they had a little rangefinder, no?

they do not, although rollei later did make a rangefinder which was just a re-branded cosina voigtlander

right until I consider how much film and developing cost and what a nightmare it is to scan

a lot of labs will scan your negatives for a nominal charge (or it's included)... then you can just order prints from Walgreens or whatever, if you want them

I never found the minilab Frontier scans useful - JPGs and even on the highest settings too crappy to make decent sized prints. If I got back into film I'd go with one of the light box/macro lens setups to "scan" film with my Sony but even thinking about that pretty much wipes away my nostalgia for film.

I think I'll be idly browsing Canonet QL17 GIII listings and Fuji medium format rangefinders (I never got to buy the Fuji 6x9 Texas Leica of my dreams when the market was at rock bottom - $400! - now they're back up to $1200+) without buying until I'm dead or luck into enough money to have a permanent darkroom set up for chemical prints.

I wonder if my college still has the color print processor or if they're just stocked with Epson inkjets (and if so how does the department keep them from choking to death on ink, because I never managed that).

you have to print constantly with epsons and they can last decades. but if you sneeze and forget to print the printhead goes and the cost to fix it is the same as buying a new one.

canon's you don't have to print much at all. still good to do it, but you can go a while without. but the printhead WILL die, maybe in 2 years, maybe more. In that case you can buy a new printhead and install it yourself. It is not cheap, but it's cheaper than a new printer, and you don't have to scrap an old printer.

god, I have not had any more than a Brother that I use for printable documents at home in an eon, but I still have regrets about the Epson inkjet I had over 20 years ago. I would have great results for weeks printing b&w, print one color thing, and I’d have to run the printer clean/test, glare, attempt to wipe out the clogs in some way
I think the ink was better overall but they really just needed a “purge the print heads with rubbing alcohol because you haven’t printed in 48 hours” function

I just upload things online to Walgreens, they have free shipping back... but this is just for snapshots etc. I did do an 8"x8" enlargement from a friend's wedding (B&W) and it came out really nice

I switched to Costco for a long time for large prints on a Epson large format something or other but they shut down the photo center here. 16x20 on archival paper for $10 was impossible to beat with home printing.

Are you guys taking about printing photos for framing?

I am. I'm only talking about the high quality stuff. And happy to do any printing esp if you're local. I use a Canon 4100 and the good papers.

I just go to adorama

this was the little Rollei rangerfinder I was thinking about upthread

https://www.lomography.com/magazine/26745-the-mighty-rollei-xf35