Shooting with an SLR.. is a real drag. I picked up a cheap Kalimar K-90 in a yard sale. Lens is a Sears zoom marked with 1.4.0 (don't know what that means.) Aperture is marked from f4...

Guyserman Loc: Benton, AR

is a real drag. I picked up a cheap Kalimar K-90 in a yard sale. Lens is a Sears zoom marked with 1.4.0 (don't know what that means.) Aperture is marked from f4 to f22 but there are two clicks larger than f4 - maybe f3.5. Zoom range is 80 - 200mm and zoom mechanism is internal.

I bought a 36 exposure roll of b&w film to try it out. What a DUMB move. I should have got a 20 exposure roll. After using an M4/3 camera, man was that thing heavy. I always forgot to wind the film until I was ready to take the next shot. I had to take it down from my face, wind the film, check the exposure, focus and composition all over again (it had zoom creep.) I finally got to where I could change the aperture without taking it down.

I managed 14 snaps before I tired out. I don't know how I ever used one of these from the 1950s through the 1990s. I guess I was stronger and also I never had a lens longer the 135mm. I know this: I sure do love my micro four thirds MILC.

What about you hogs. Do you ever return to the SLR world?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Nope.
Even though I think film prints have more "finesse", I love the convenience of digital much more.

BebuLamar

Guyserman wrote:

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I guess you forget about most the things in the past. You're on for the future. A film camera feel the same way to me now as it was 44 years ago. I can control everything without taking the camera down. Using the film camera is very enjoyable to me. The camera is small but it's hefty and it feels very good in my hands. I hate new cameras now that are too big but too light. They feel empty.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I shot almost a roll of film today, intermingled with a DSLR. I filled 4 cards in 4 hours at the practice day of the Air & Water Show, but only 33 frames of film. It was pretty bright, I had a color roll, and didn't think to bring a 1-stop ND, something I really needed as I tried to slow the shutter for the prop planes.

My film body is a 1-series EOS, with integrated grip and 8x AA batteries. Nothing light weight. But, Auto Focus and sharing all my EF lenses with the digital body certainly don't limit me, even if I take only one image of a plane passing instead of 20ish.

BebuLamar

I have the Nikon F5 which kind of close to Paul's EOS-1V but now I prefer to use the FM and F3. Image quality are the same as I have the same lenses but the manual focus camera is much more enjoyable. Digital gives me better image quality.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

BebuLamar wrote:

I have the Nikon F5 which kind of close to Paul's EOS-1V but now I prefer to use the FM and F3. Image quality are the same as I have the same lenses but the manual focus camera is much more enjoyable. Digital gives me better image quality.

I gave up on manual focus film. Keeping the lenses, even adding more, but using the enabling technology of mirrorless to get better results than I was achieving on film with the same lenses.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Interesting. Lately I have been enjoying shooting with an OM-2. Fully manual SLR. (I still enjoy shooting with my OM-D as well.). I have missed a few shots, like when I forgot to advance the film first and crept up slowly on a lizzard and he bolted when I advanced the film. :( But there is something about slowing down, getting set up ahead of time, thinking about the composition, not just snapping away, that is enjoyable to me.

BebuLamar

JD750 wrote:

Interesting. Lately I have been enjoying shooting with an OM-2. Fully manual SLR. (I still enjoy shooting with my OM-D as well.). I have missed a few shots, like when I forgot to advance the film first and crept up slowly on a lizzard and he bolted when I advanced the film. :( But there is something about slowing down, getting set up ahead of time, thinking about the composition, not just snapping away, that is enjoyable to me.

Interestingly back when the OM-2 was introduced it was the automatic camera not manual.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

BebuLamar wrote:

Interestingly back when the OM-2 was introduced it was the automatic camera not manual.

Ha ha how things have changed. Yes it has an auto exposure mode where it will select the shutter speed based on aperture. Nowadays that is called aperture priority. However I prefer to take total responsibility for my bad exposures. ;)

The format is fabulous, it is small and light. It’s a great carry around camera (just like it’s digital ancestor the OM-D). And Olympus glass, speaks for itself. :)

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Guyserman wrote:

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Your "1.4.0" is actual "1:4.0"

The extra click stops are phantoms, they do nothing. Its entirely possible someone reassembled the lens incorrectly.

Given the expenses involved in film, I would not run any of it thru that device.

uhaas2009

I still have a Minolta and the last time I put a film in I was surprised too that how did I manage manually focus ( I tried to get some pics of my moving around cat) and this with a 50mm lens….after robbing on my floor I felt I did a lots of exercises…..lol…..

jrcarpe Loc: Jacksonville,AR

Yes as a fellow Arkie I have a Canon Elon 7 which is primarily used for B&W film.I love the B&W pictures especially of people.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I thought about buying some film to give the old SLRs some exercise. When I saw the price of film and processing, I asked myself, "Why bother?"

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Guyserman wrote:

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Why denigrate film and film cameras with your experience on a questionable quality camera and lens. Let’s face it, there’s more “meat”, i.e. metal, to a FSLR than many a DSLR, especially the more compact ones. A vintage lens will be heavier than a digital lens of like focal length due to its meatier materials. The things that you complain about, the need to advance the film, adjust the exposure with a shutter dial/wheel, focus by twisting the lens, are all part of the tactile and organic nature of film photography. It’s what most of us learned to do almost by reflex when we were coming up in photography.

If you want a FSLR that compares to your MFT camera, get an M-series Pentax and lens. I suggest the less fiddly ME - aperture priority auto exposure. You might even find a winder for it. Then all you have to do is focus and fire.

Stan

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I use both film and digital equally well. A couple of my cameras do both. No problem working with either.
--Bob

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