Your Cameras

i dont do b+w but i wanna be able to take night photos that dont look like something christopher doyle vomited on

but yeah, looking into soviet copies of leicas and stuff on ebay.

now that i have a job and shit

anyway 2 cameras = roll w/ 2 diff types of film

yeah this is something that actually only occurred to me for the first time last night!

its awesome try it

as long as nobody outbids me I will!

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

i dont do b+w but i wanna be able to take night photos that dont look like something christopher doyle vomited on

lol. go for 1600 i say.

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?

god i used to think u just had to press a button

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plax russian cameras are kind of hit or miss

chinavision strangely enough I also bought a beater M2 recently, that's dented in the same area as yours :o

I have a disease

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?

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

i got my fn ФЭД

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.

it doesnt have to.

well i had work all day and i got it today. i might be 2/3 through a 36 roll

KIU!!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

all of those take acceptable photos imo

The iCrap, even? Really? Maybe in special, perfect, mid-day circumstances.

best camera is the one you have etc etc

love the one you're with

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.

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.

kenan the funny thing is that you despite having 8 diff cameras always take the same photo of your face over and over

jk lol

you should check out some of the photojournalism done with iphones kenan

xp It's the same face! What am I supposed to do?

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/finding-the-right-tool-to-tell-a-war-story/

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.

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.

In the case of the iPod especially, this camera was a waste of the Chinese people's time and effort.

. . .

That was a dark joke. Do you see?

I'm very amused

I'm not. People are jumping out the windows at Foxconn, and I still have a shitty camera. Someone died for THIS?

That was an even darker joke. I'll quit while I'm behind.

note to self: excellent thread revive

all of those take acceptable photos imo

― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 10 March 2012 00:48 (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^
photos are weird, i think their value in having captured their subject far outstrips their proficiency in whatever other respects, exponentially, over time. i am here to tell the your cameras thread that you are too concerned about your cameras.