Eh, it's pretty beat looking. It would mostly be just normal scratches and occasional flaking vulcanite, but on the counter-side corner there's some significant denting. Looks like it took a nasty fall at some point. Functions (seemingly) fine. Shutter speeds seem accurate etc. but I'll know better when I finish off the roll I've started going through.No lens. So I am just starting off with a low-end Voigtlander 35. Will be on the lookout to upgrade when I have the money or a deal comes up on CL etc.
And xp: I also feel as if I've betrayed my Olympus RCs! After lauding them so much and all. And I feel sorry for my Pentax, and my Minolta AL, and my borrowed Nikon F2, or the FED, or the XA etc. I'm a little nostalgic about every camera I pick up and feel kind of guilty when I get new one. I think the goal is to settle on just a few that each have their purpose.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 18 February 2011 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
plax i usually roll w/ 2 cameras: 1 loaded w/ b&w and one w/ color/slide film
― gr8080, Friday, 18 February 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont do b+w but i wanna be able to take night photos that dont look like something christopher doyle vomited on
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
but yeah, looking into soviet copies of leicas and stuff on ebay.
now that i have a job and shit
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway 2 cameras = roll w/ 2 diff types of film
― gr8080, Friday, 18 February 2011 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this is something that actually only occurred to me for the first time last night!
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
its awesome try it
― gr8080, Friday, 18 February 2011 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
as long as nobody outbids me I will!
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
one of them comes w/ like additional lenses. Idk it all seems a bit much, this is my only camera except for this shitty digital thing i never used and a crappy one an ex gave me when he was done w/ it that survived abt a month w/ me as owner
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
lol. go for 1600 i say.
― your LiveJournal experience (schlump), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link
really, i only start getting handshake at 1/8 and most of my night shots are 1/2 - 2s atm, i thought 800 would be fine?
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
god i used to think u just had to press a button
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
new board description
― ullr saves (gbx), Friday, 18 February 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
plax russian cameras are kind of hit or miss
― dayo, Friday, 18 February 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
chinavision strangely enough I also bought a beater M2 recently, that's dented in the same area as yours :o
I have a disease
I'd just buy the new Portra 400 that can be shot from 400-1600 on the same roll without issue, and shoot 1600 when light demands it.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Friday, 18 February 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
200 is the only iso i've used even though i have some 400 but its all 24exp so im too cheap to use it.
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
well i bought a supercute little FED-3 for £31 incl deliver and a leather case. goes from 1s-1/500+B so i figure it can be my night one for throwing some 800/1600 (depending) into. feel v. excited about all this btw!
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, its not a leica but i've never used a leica so idk what im missing and its a helluva lot more appro for my budget.
― plax (ico), Friday, 18 February 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
My parents bought themselves at 60D (which I will probably be selling for them in a year when they realize it hasn't been used). I've played it with for a few hours here and there - definitely an improvement over the T2i/Rebel series (which is what my brother just got, giving them the impetus to buy something one step better), and the viewfinder is pretty big and bright for a crop sensor (except at night indoors, with the kit zoom).
The fold out screen is interesting - I could see maybe using it during the day, when shutter speeds are high enough to not care (holding a camera at arms' length to view an LCD screen is less stable than elbows locked and braced against your face). But OTOH, in daylight is it going to be visible at all? Guessing it would be more useful to someone who has some idea WTF they're doing with video.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i got my fn ФЭД
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 March 2011 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i get the focusing thing, it made no sense to me when it was explained. dying to get a test roll but its like it takes forever to take all those photos.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 March 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
it doesnt have to.
― gr8080, Saturday, 5 March 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
well i had work all day and i got it today. i might be 2/3 through a 36 roll
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 March 2011 02:39 (thirteen years ago) link
KIU!!!
― gr8080, Saturday, 5 March 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
My friend's dad gave me his Pentax Spotmatic F w/ 50mm f/4 macro lens tonight, he used it for 30 years to copy slides for his classes and Powerpoint made it obsolete. I love the feel of the camera, so solid and smooth.Need to order a cheap fast 50 from KEH.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
That was my dad's camera too! Had a 50mm lens with a big wide f/1.4 aperture. Still has it, although it was replaced with a ZX-5n that he only used for a couple of years before switching to a high-end Canon digital.
― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
just wanted to say I dig this thread. keeping it from slipping the surly bonds of new answers.I like the timeline of everyone's continued interests and acquisitions, etc.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 9 March 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
I realized maybe day before yesterday, in the middle of a conversation, that at worst i always have at least one camera on my person, on my phone. There's also one on my iPod. And another one on my iPad. And there's my pocket Powershot. And then there's my DSLR Nikon. So when I show up to work most days, with my overstuffed backpack, I actually have six cameras on me, or eight if you count the two cameras on the iPad and iPod. So there are two good cameras, one middling one (on my Android phone), and four completely shit ones. And sitting at my desk here at home, I realize I have two MORE cameras -- the webcams on my iMac and my PC. I have a LOT of cameras. They have different functions, and only two of them take actually acceptable photos.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Saturday, 10 March 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
all of those take acceptable photos imo
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 10 March 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
The iCrap, even? Really? Maybe in special, perfect, mid-day circumstances.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Saturday, 10 March 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
best camera is the one you have etc etc
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 10 March 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
love the one you're with
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 10 March 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
Right, assuming you're taking a picture of something that you could never take another picture of. The iPod camera doesn't have any white balance control, though, for one example of how it's shit. On a cloudy day, with none of the yellow sun that gives Superman his powers, everything is washed out and aqua. It sucks. Hipstamatic helps a little tiny bit, but not enough that it makes it a great camera all of a sudden.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Saturday, 10 March 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
And I'm not going to spend more than two bucks to try to make a bad lens look like a good one. And ffs, the fray "old photo" effect is over, dead, buried, and stop using it plz.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Saturday, 10 March 2012 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
kenan the funny thing is that you despite having 8 diff cameras always take the same photo of your face over and over
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 10 March 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
jk lol
you should check out some of the photojournalism done with iphones kenan
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 10 March 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
xp It's the same face! What am I supposed to do?
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Saturday, 10 March 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/finding-the-right-tool-to-tell-a-war-story/
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 10 March 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
xp Ah see the iPHONE has a much different, much better camera in it. The iPod and the iPad2 both have low-rent garbage. Seriously.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Saturday, 10 March 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
But of course the other cliche is that it's a poor craftsman who blames his tools. You can take a great photo with anything that captures light and records it somehow. But I'll stand my my point -- these Apple prodocts that are expected to be used for videochat as best have terrible, awful, no good, very bad cameras in them. The very least they could get away with and still call it a camera.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Saturday, 10 March 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
In the case of the iPod especially, this camera was a waste of the Chinese people's time and effort.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Saturday, 10 March 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
. . .
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 10 March 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
That was a dark joke. Do you see?
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Saturday, 10 March 2012 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
I'm very amused
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 10 March 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not. People are jumping out the windows at Foxconn, and I still have a shitty camera. Someone died for THIS?
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Saturday, 10 March 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
That was an even darker joke. I'll quit while I'm behind.
― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Saturday, 10 March 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link