Do you still own your first "real" camera?
Nov 24, 2021 16:25:26 #
Jlink951
Loc: St George UT
Voightlander Bessamatic first, then onto the canon bandwagon. A Canon FTbQL then Canon EF really started me on my Canon journey. I could not get enough! F-1, F1n another EF and a bucket load of FD lenses. Hassleblad 500C, CM & ELM and 4 lenses. Yes, I still have them... could not give them away when the digital bug hit me... still with Canon. 🤷🏻♂️
Nov 25, 2021 01:33:04 #
Yashica TL-Electro X with 50mm(1971), along with 75-230 zoom, double and triple extension tubes, 35mm lens and an array of filters and flash unit. All collecting dust. Any idea on what to do with it? SEA PX doesn’t want it back!😉🇺🇸
Nov 25, 2021 08:21:55 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
Spectre wrote:
Yashica TL-Electro X with 50mm(1971), along with 75-230 zoom, double and triple extension tubes, 35mm lens and an array of filters and flash unit. All collecting dust. Any idea on what to do with it? SEA PX doesn’t want it back!😉🇺🇸
Use it! Get some film and go out shooting. Have the film developed and scanned (several companies still do that service), or scan it yourself, and post process as digital. Have fun with that old camera.
Stan
Nov 25, 2021 11:23:08 #
My first camera was a Canon AT-1. My sister was dating a professional photographer and he insisted my first camera should be a manual focus with built-in metering that required me to adjust the shutter and aperture. He believed auto cameras were fine but I should learn the basics first to understand what the camera was doing. He also believed glass was important and delivered it with a Canon 50mm 1.4. I still own it.
Nov 25, 2021 12:27:06 #
I don't feel like looking through 15 pages to see my original response, so here's just the pic I promised of my first "real" camera. I think it was the first thing I bought with my Sears credit card, which may have been my first - either that or Montgomery Ward. The 28mm lens is a Sears-branded model. The color rendition between the old Canon and new Sony lenses are night and day. I realistically should only use the old film lenses for B/W practice (if I can still find a place around here that will develop film).
Nov 25, 2021 12:31:09 #
Nov 25, 2021 12:44:39 #
planepics wrote:
...I realistically should only use the old film lenses for B/W practice (if I can still find a place around here that will develop film).
I still use my Nikon FM with B&W film and all my old lenses. Then I develop the film myself on the kitchen table using a light-proof enclosure, and then I scan the negatives.
You can still buy all the gear and chemicals you need to develop B&W film; it's much easier than color film because B&W is not as temperature sensitive.
Nov 25, 2021 12:53:48 #
Blues Dude wrote:
I still use my Nikon FM with B&W film and all my old lenses. Then I develop the film myself on the kitchen table using a light-proof enclosure, and then I scan the negatives.
You can still buy all the gear and chemicals you need to develop B&W film; it's much easier than color film because B&W is not as temperature sensitive.
You can still buy all the gear and chemicals you need to develop B&W film; it's much easier than color film because B&W is not as temperature sensitive.
Last time (only?) time I developed film was when I took a class at my local college a couple years ago. I just looked and I still have some Kodak ISO400 film as well as the Ilford B/W I used for class. I wonder if it's still any good or if it's worth shooting just for the heck of it. PS Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 25, 2021 13:12:15 #
planepics wrote:
Last time (only?) time I developed film was when I took a class at my local college a couple years ago. I just looked and I still have some Kodak ISO400 film as well as the Ilford B/W I used for class. I wonder if it's still any good or if it's worth shooting just for the heck of it. PS Happy Thanksgiving!
Live dangerously! Use that film... but not on any important subject.
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