FTb vs all Digital Cameras
Dec 19, 2022 21:36:07 #
Dec 19, 2022 21:53:57 #
Architect1776 wrote:
What can a FTb do better than any digital camera?
Stop down metering?????
Dec 19, 2022 21:59:29 #
Longshadow wrote:
Stop down metering?????
0. Nope. Digital meters all lenses.
1. Use FD lenses with auto iris.
2. Use film.
3. Run with no battery.
Dec 19, 2022 22:03:34 #
It certainly can't produce better photos. The camera is fifty years old time to let it rest
Dec 19, 2022 22:06:10 #
User ID wrote:
0. Nope. Digital meters all lenses.
1. Use FD lenses with auto iris.
2. Use film.
3. Run with no battery.
1. Use FD lenses with auto iris.
2. Use film.
3. Run with no battery.
(Meter doesn't work without a battery, but it still takes pictures without a battery.)
Dec 19, 2022 22:09:14 #
tramsey wrote:
It certainly can't produce better photos. The camera is fifty years old time to let it rest
Haha, mine is resting in the curio cabinet....
Right next to my AE-1 and Yashica Mat 124.
Dec 19, 2022 22:42:02 #
Ysarex
Loc: St. Louis
Architect1776 wrote:
What can a FTb do better than any digital camera?
Hammer nails.
When I stood behind the sales counter in a camera store one of the fellows had fixed a 1/4 20 tripod screw into a wooden hammer handle that we kept behind the counter as a prop. When customers inquired about the toughness and durability of cameras we got it out. Only certain cameras rated (by our standards) to be mounted on that hammer handle. The Ftb was one of them.
Otherwise most any digital camera will blow it away.
Dec 20, 2022 05:59:00 #
Dec 20, 2022 05:59:13 #
Dec 20, 2022 06:32:33 #
Longshadow wrote:
Stop down metering?????
It still takes photos with no battery.
Dec 20, 2022 06:33:01 #
Longshadow wrote:
(Meter doesn't work without a battery, but it still takes pictures without a battery.)
Exactly
Dec 20, 2022 06:34:34 #
tramsey wrote:
It certainly can't produce better photos. The camera is fifty years old time to let it rest
Sounds like a dedicated Nikon F lover.
Dec 20, 2022 06:53:41 #
User ID wrote:
0. Nope. Digital meters all lenses.
1. Use FD lenses with auto iris.
2. Use film.
3. Run with no battery.
1. Use FD lenses with auto iris.
2. Use film.
3. Run with no battery.
But you DO need a battery to meter.
Dec 20, 2022 07:01:25 #
foathog wrote:
But you DO need a battery to meter.
Not to take a photo.
Meter not required.
Ask Matthew Brady.
Dec 20, 2022 07:03:36 #
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