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Oct 28, 2019 22:06:07 #

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

Biggest mistake I have made was selling my Canon F-1 and my Fd lens collection. I sold a lot of portraits from that camera. Had it for almost 40 years, worked as if it was brand new.

Oct 28, 2019 23:41:26 #

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

leicajah wrote:

Just curious. Who uses a totally manual film camera?

I don’t use any, but still have these:

(2) Argus Seventy-Five
Kodak 616 folding camera
Kodak Brownie 127
Kodak Instamatic 104
Polaroid 54
Polaroid 100
Stereo Realist
Argus C44
Nikon FTn
Nikon F3
Canon A1
Minolta SRT 200
Canon ELPH and ELPH Junior
Bronica ETRSi

...and a big box of filters.

I have a complete B&W darkroom setup that I also don’t use.

I use my iPhone 7 Plus and two Lumix GH4 cameras.

Oct 29, 2019 00:02:21 #

rick_n_wv Loc: Charleston WV

I have a few older Mamiya 645's and an few 35mm (mostly Pentax) but havn't used either since about 2005/2006.

Oct 29, 2019 01:41:17 #

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

leicajah wrote:

Just curious. Who uses a totally manual film camera?

Me.

Oly Trip 35 is my favorite.

I do also use a Nikon FE2 when the Trip can't get 'er done.

I will shoot film exclusively until I can't develop or print the images in my darkroom or can't afford to do it then I will reluctantly go digital.

Oct 29, 2019 03:14:51 #

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

Lucasdv123 wrote:

The problem with a lot of users of digital camaras now aday is that they don't know the corolasion between the film speed,shutter speed,and apature.

But that's because a lot of people use cameras that don't really give them control over those things. I didn't bother learning about shutter speed and aperture until I actually had a camera which gave me control. Until then, it simply didn't interest me to understand exposure.

Oct 29, 2019 04:20:39 #

Pablo8 Loc: Nottingham UK.

My list nearly matches that of Andy H...
3, Hasselblads (Plus 5 lenses)
Leica 111c (Plus 5 lenses)
Pentax Spotmatic (Plus 6 lenses)
Sinar P 5x4 (Plus 6 lenses)
MPP Mk 2 5x4
MPP Micro-Press 5x4
Bronica S2a (Plus 3 lenses)
Mamiya C33 (Plus 5 lenses)
Mamiya RZ (Plus 5 lenses)
Half a dozen Nikon film models
Rolleiflex f 3.5 planar
Rolleiflex f 2.8
Arca-Swiss 5x4.(Plus three lenses)
Don't use them all every day.
Will not sell them because their value to me keeping them, is worth much more.

Oct 29, 2019 05:41:48 #

BebuLamar

I do use them. I enjoy them very much. But all of those are film camera. I don't use them much because the cost of film and not because they are manual. I don't know of a digital camera that is totally manual so my digital camera isn't manual but I use it manually often.

Oct 29, 2019 06:14:52 #

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

burkphoto wrote:

The Kodak Instamatic #104. I bought one of those, brand new in the box, when I was young. Around early 1969. It was my pre-SLR use camera. A few years later, my dad bought a Minolta SRT-101 with a 50mm manual lens. No additional lens was ever bought. I borrowed it occasionally, when he did not use it. What a difference in quality photos that was, compared to the Kodak Instamatic #104. My Kodak Instamatic finally broke. My father sold his Minolta, and finally realized it was time to go digital around the year 2005. That prompted me to buy my first compact Canon digital camera. All 3 cameras I own today are digital. A Nikon DSLR, Nikon Bridge Camera, and a Sony Compact. And my smartphone. I still remember the good old film days though. And taking your film to the local drug store for processing. And waiting several days for development. My dad also enjoyed his many slides of Ektachrome and Kodachrome.

Oct 29, 2019 06:33:58 #

JohnIlko

I still enjoy my first Argus C2 that I received from my dad when I was age 7. it still works, and gets awesome results. My main cameras are a Nikon FE and Minolta 7s, which I shoot in manual.

Oct 29, 2019 06:48:11 #

bull drink water Loc: pontiac mi.

my first was a Kodak brownie bullseye, 2 apatures one shutter speed. the next was a tower ttl reflex with no meters.

Oct 29, 2019 06:57:13 #

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Not me. And I don't use a crank to start my car, nor do I wash my clothes in the local stream. Just because it's old, that doesn't mean it's good.

Oct 29, 2019 07:14:00 #

Carnpo Loc: North Carolina

Not totally but went on 3 trips this summer with only film. I still have my Nikkormat I purchased in early 70s

Oct 29, 2019 07:22:59 #

GAS496 Loc: Arizona

Shooting primarily with a large format Ebony 8x10 camera it is about as manual as you can get. Heck you have to put it on the tripod, open it up, put the lens on, put a dark cloth over the back, focus, load the film, meter the scene, make aperture and shutter adjustments on the lens, cock the shutter, pull the dark slide, trip the shutter, replace the dark slide, remove the film holder. Take it all apart and carefully put it in its backpack ready to find the next photograph.

Oct 29, 2019 07:31:51 #

zonedoc

Wista DX 4x5

Oct 29, 2019 07:39:59 #

Inglese

Nikon F2, FM, Bronica ETRS, Mamiya RB67 ProS, Leica llF, Zeiss Ikon Nettar, Intrepid 5x4, Intrepid 10x8

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