Manual camera?
Oct 29, 2019 07:42:26 #
I use several quite often.
--Bob
--Bob
leicajah wrote:
Just curious. Who uses a totally manual film camera?
Oct 29, 2019 07:44:28 #
It's interesting that the original question was what manual cameras do you USE seems to have turned into what do you HAVE.
Oct 29, 2019 07:50:35 #
Oct 29, 2019 08:15:41 #
Oct 29, 2019 08:24:12 #
lamiaceae wrote:
I have:
Asahi Pentax Spotmatic
Asahi Pentax K1000
Sears (Ricoh) TLS 500MX Camera (like a Pentax Spotmatic 500)
Kodak (German) Retina (35mm folding camera)
German Certo Rangefinder
Argus Seventy-five 6x6cm 620 film format (no film so not used since late 1970's)
Gunlach 4x5" Wooden Folding Field Camera
Omega 45F 4x5" Rail View Camera
Asahi Pentax Spotmatic
Asahi Pentax K1000
Sears (Ricoh) TLS 500MX Camera (like a Pentax Spotmatic 500)
Kodak (German) Retina (35mm folding camera)
German Certo Rangefinder
Argus Seventy-five 6x6cm 620 film format (no film so not used since late 1970's)
Gunlach 4x5" Wooden Folding Field Camera
Omega 45F 4x5" Rail View Camera
I like your choice of gear, much like my own, Pentax, Fuji these days. Happy as Hell!! RJM
Oct 29, 2019 08:24:36 #
651roy
Loc: Black Hills, SD
Leica MP is with me at all times (when I remember). Frustrating that memory thing.
Hassy 503 still in backpack at the ready also.
Hassy 503 still in backpack at the ready also.
Oct 29, 2019 08:24:41 #
RWR
Loc: La Mesa, CA
leicajah wrote:
Just curious. Who uses a totally manual film camera?
My serious work is with transparency film, mostly 6 x 7 & 6 x 9: those cameras are completely manual.
Oct 29, 2019 08:31:30 #
scubadoc
Loc: Sarasota, FL
boberic wrote:
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.
I still have and occasionally use my Canon F1N. Built in light meter. Have to manually match the needle, but with correct viewfinder, has a T mode.
Oct 29, 2019 08:31:57 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
leicajah wrote:
Just curious. Who uses a totally manual film camera?
I used a Hasselblad 500c for years and years and years, totally manual.
The reason I used it for weddings it could flash sync, in any speed up to 1/500 sec. and used it extensively for outdoor fill flash shots.
My first camera for photojournalism was the Nikon F, with standard prism, no meter. Used the sunshine rule most of the time, you got to the point you could set the camera according to the type of daylight you had.
Of course, it helped to have Kodak B&W film that usually allowed me to have up to a six stop leeway.
Oct 29, 2019 08:36:08 #
leicajah wrote:
Just curious. Who uses a totally manual film camera?
On occasion I use a Nikon F with Photomic finder and a Canon FTb.
Oct 29, 2019 08:44:31 #
leicajah wrote:
Just curious. Who uses a totally manual film camera?
I think by "totally manual camera" you mean one that only works manually without any auto or semi-auto settings. I noticed that several posters mention the Canon A-1 in their list of cameras. Since when did the Canon A-1 lose its <P> Program, <Av> Aperture value, <Tv> Time value, and I think <Auto> modes? That camera surely wasn't a "totally manual camera".
Oct 29, 2019 08:52:08 #
Defining a totally manual camera as one with no more than an Uncoupled meter I have several:
Retina IIIc
Voigtlander Vitessa L
Canon P
Contax IIa
Bronica S2a
Nikon S2
I use these occasionally, some more than others.
Retina IIIc
Voigtlander Vitessa L
Canon P
Contax IIa
Bronica S2a
Nikon S2
I use these occasionally, some more than others.
Oct 29, 2019 09:19:16 #
TV714 wrote:
I think by "totally manual camera" you mean one that only works manually without any auto or semi-auto settings. I noticed that several posters mention the Canon A-1 in their list of cameras. Since when did the Canon A-1 lose its <P> Program, <Av> Aperture value, <Tv> Time value, and I think <Auto> modes? That camera surely wasn't a "totally manual camera".
The A1 is film and does manual.
PS, Nikon F2 and original Canon F-1 are also automatic cameras but use film.
Oct 29, 2019 09:25:19 #
Architect1776 wrote:
The A1 is film and does manual.
PS, Nikon F2 and original Canon F-1 are also automatic cameras but use film.
PS, Nikon F2 and original Canon F-1 are also automatic cameras but use film.
I know it does manual. My statement was in regards to the OP's question about "totally manual cameras".
The point I am making is that the A-1 is far from totally manual.
Oct 29, 2019 09:26:41 #
Tom47
Loc: Gettysburg, PA
Yes I still use a Minolta 202 and a 2and quarter from time to time. I still enjoy them.
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