I am trying to find a reason to justify getting this
Oct 3, 2013 11:04:45 #
What I would not have given for one fifteen years ago, what a camera, at an un heard of price
http://www.lcegroup.co.uk/Used/Mamiya-RB67-PRO-SD-+-50mm-F4.5_80121.html
http://www.lcegroup.co.uk/Used/Mamiya-RB67-PRO-SD-+-50mm-F4.5_80121.html
Oct 3, 2013 11:05:58 #
Oct 3, 2013 11:13:58 #
George II
Loc: Fayetteville, Georgia
Talk about depreciate, cameras are not a sound investment except in the satisfaction and pleasure one gets from using one, how do you place a monetary value on that?
Oct 3, 2013 11:18:50 #
I am looking at a used Nikon f6. New they are about $2300 and I have found LN used ones for around $1000 US dollars. You will love the Mamiya, I have used them. Even used Hasselblads are a steal right now.
Randy
Randy
Oct 3, 2013 11:22:54 #
If it does help you with accepting your state of "GAS", I think that's enough reason to justify it!
Oct 3, 2013 11:29:20 #
exposeu wrote:
I am looking at a used Nikon f6. New they are about $2300 and I have found LN used ones for around $1000 US dollars. You will love the Mamiya, I have used them. Even used Hasselblads are a steal right now.
Randy
Randy
Old film cameras are a steal, in fact I can not justify it even at that price, would not use it yet would have died for it once
Oct 3, 2013 11:32:29 #
JR1 wrote:
Old film cameras are a steal, in fact I can not justify it even at that price, would not use it yet would have died for it once
I still shoot film from time to time. Love the look it gives and I enjoy the "what did I get" waiting. Shooting my Hasselblads is, for me, the best. Must be the sound they make and that large, bright, square viewfinder.
Randy
Oct 3, 2013 12:53:20 #
exposeu wrote:
I still shoot film from time to time. Love the look it gives and I enjoy the "what did I get" waiting. Shooting my Hasselblads is, for me, the best. Must be the sound they make and that large, bright, square viewfinder.
Randy
Randy
And film is coming back
Oct 3, 2013 14:39:08 #
Oct 3, 2013 21:37:20 #
I have had all the F Nikons from 1965. The last one was the F6. Very awesome camera! And I sold it at the right time. Got $2300 for it.:):)
Erv
Erv
Oct 4, 2013 06:48:36 #
JR1 wrote:
What I would not have given for one fifteen years ago, what a camera, at an un heard of price
http://www.lcegroup.co.uk/Used/Mamiya-RB67-PRO-SD-+-50mm-F4.5_80121.html
http://www.lcegroup.co.uk/Used/Mamiya-RB67-PRO-SD-+-50mm-F4.5_80121.html
Wow - me too. I think, though, that we have all been sucked in to cocaine high of digital cameras. I look back at photos taken with Ektachrome and think: "oh yeah - THAT is high dynamic range photography"! I don't miss the expense but I do miss the quality.
Oct 4, 2013 06:49:08 #
Oct 4, 2013 06:54:32 #
sb wrote:
It's just hiding out!
A kind person has given me a Yashicamat, that I will be donating to Cats Protection, Plymouth, however before I do, I (they know) will be running a few FP4s through it.
Just can't resist.
NOTHING is nicer than setting up a tripod mounting a MF camera and taking readings with my mint Weston Euromaster meter
Oct 4, 2013 13:04:13 #
oldmalky
Loc: West Midlands,England.
I guess we all have our passions for whatever but as I was never involved in film except for a box kodak and a polaroid, so for me film is well and truely dead.
Oct 4, 2013 15:56:14 #
I get a real kick when shooting film,of all sizes. I like when younger people stop and want to interupt me when my head is under the curtain and I'm focusing a picture. When they say that's allot of work;all I do is pull out my phone and shoot.Sometimes one will stay and watch and be very interested and I will try to explain and I've even let a few take the shot. I've even taken a few and Emailed the finished product for them to compare with their phone shots.The response is mixed but every once in a while I hook one. I don't get this attention or interest when I shoot digital. NEVER I enjoy passing it along as much as I can. I'm no pro but a little push might get the price of film to come down if enough people get back into it. for me it's just a damn good way to spend the day.
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