I didn't realize how good my equipment was
May 4, 2017 22:39:32 #
May 5, 2017 01:18:45 #
Are you sure it wasn't the standard kit lens sold with the FTb - the 50mm f/1.8?
Anyway, the Canon FTb was the first SLR camera I've ever owned, and I still use it occasionally. A fine camera indeed.
Anyway, the Canon FTb was the first SLR camera I've ever owned, and I still use it occasionally. A fine camera indeed.
May 5, 2017 04:27:57 #
jdubu
Loc: San Jose, CA
It was my first too! Still have it but normally use my T90 or Elan when shooting 35mm film.
May 5, 2017 05:05:16 #
RWR
Loc: La Mesa, CA
SteveR wrote:
When I shot a Canon ftb and a 55mm f1.8 prime lens as my regular lens.
I realize how good my equipment is when I shoot with my Leicaflex SL and 50 f/2.0 Summicron-R. Or Nikon F5 and 55 f/1.4 Zeiss Otus. Or ...
May 5, 2017 06:36:34 #
jdubu wrote:
It was my first too! Still have it but normally use my T90 or Elan when shooting 35mm film.
I too started with the trust ftb and advanced to the T90 - really great cameras. I was interested to see that when my brother was an attaché at an embassy he spent a year at the pentagon in training - and they gave him a T90 kit and taught him to use it for when he needed to document something.
May 5, 2017 06:39:39 #
May 5, 2017 08:01:26 #
May 5, 2017 08:10:51 #
SteveR wrote:
When I shot a Canon ftb and a 55mm f1.8 prime lens as my regular lens.
I started serious photography in 1968 with a borrowed Canon FX, the forerunner of the FTb. It had a meter cell on the side of the body, with a match needle on top. It did a fine job, but I had to give it back.
The following year, I bought a Nikkormat FTn with 50mm f/1.4. I was 14.
Just this Monday, I ran across a 47-year-old print from the very first roll of film I ever took with that camera, on August 8, 1969. I made it in a simple darkroom set up in a "powder room" outside a bathroom in our house. Here it is...
I'd forgotten how grainy Tri-X used to be!
May 5, 2017 09:15:13 #
burkphoto wrote:
I started serious photography in 1968 with a borro... (show quote)
That's a great shot Bill! (And you're right about TriX - used to struggle with that)
May 5, 2017 10:19:20 #
Speaking of first cameras, my dad started me out on a Towerflex twin lens reflex camera that I believe was sold by Sears in 1964. I continued with a twin lens reflex until about 1999 when I finally realized a 35mm would be much easier to carry around. I then bought the Canon Elan 7 and a Canon Elan7n film cameras. I was very happy with both. Finally went digital in 2015 with my Canon 7D. Still have both 35mm's and my last twin lens reflex which is a Mamya C330. Don't know if I spelled that correctly.
May 5, 2017 10:27:03 #
cactuspic
Loc: Dallas, TX
I could not believe the subtle details that became evident when I focus stacked with my Canon 5DSr and my Sigma 180mm 2.8 macro. Exquisite.
May 5, 2017 12:38:50 #
jdubu
Loc: San Jose, CA
cthahn wrote:
What would you like us to say? A waste of space.
Didn't really need you to say anything... we were sharing our memories of times past and our long love of photography. That is never a waste of space. But since you mentioned a waste of space... good luck filling yours.
May 5, 2017 14:11:22 #
I used Tri-X as my standard film (newspaper photographer) no issue with it when you put through the halftone process to put it on an offset press. The grain just became part of the news print and the halftone dots. I learned early on if you processed it gently, D-76 at 68 degrees, only agitate once every minute and keep all of the other chemicals, stop bath and fixer at the same temperature, 68 degrees, I could get 24 x 36 prints with no discernible grain. But if you sent it to a lab they always processed it hot and boy did that grain pop! I always did my own development when I was working for my portfolio or outside clients. I used Agfa Brovira? (I guess they are gone now) paper for my stuff. Let the lab techs develop my news work and then I printed the photos myself, but used the paper the newspaper bought for their stuff Kodak RC (read cheap). I still have a lot of my B&W prints (early 70s & 80s) and it has held up well to the elements. I see some old prints that the labs did not do a good job of washing and you can see fixer stains and fading.
May 5, 2017 14:42:54 #
cthahn wrote:
What would you like us to say? A waste of space.
OK cthahn, I will say it. "You are a waste of space", let alone bandwidth, electricity and oxygen!
May 5, 2017 15:59:52 #
RWR
Loc: La Mesa, CA
jdubu wrote:
... we were sharing our memories of times past ...
Not everybody - I was sharing my memories of the present. Just finished dinner, my RB-67’s in the Jeep outside the deli and I’m heading out again. Won’t be back til suppertime!
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