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I have the F100 with battery grip, amongst a score of other film and digital cameras and many more lenses. I still don't like the plastic film cassette holder inside and wonder if I can have it changed to a decent metal one?
I still love the images from the Fuji X A1 the most, I have Konica lenses on it. Also the cheapo Fuji 16-50.
A press photographer friend once told me that he couldn't depend on his XT2 for important events, but he could reliably depend on his XT1 for same. At the time, he mainly used the Canon 1DX with L lenses for speed.
I've bought an ancient 200/4 Olympus prime for 37 Euro, can't wait to try it out. I have about forty other lenses for Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Olympus & Minolta and about 15 cameras, half dozen of them digital - love my Bronica SQA and Mamiyas. I worked over fifty years as a photographer, the Covid put an end to it for now. I don't want to sell anything, financially I don't have to, and I love trying more lenses like that old Olympus 200/4 prime. There are some great zooms like the Canon L range but otherwise I use primes and often manual focusing ones that I grew up with. And though I have most of the good SLR film cameras, I like to adapt the old lenses to my Canon 1Ds Mk3 in particular and go out and shoot with them around this lovely little medieval city that I live in - Kilkenny in Ireland.
Hopefully things will start up again in the summer, meanwhile I intend to shoot some urban landscapes of our city's medieval buildings for a Kindle book.
rook2c4 wrote:
Why buy a brand new shirt just to utilize the sleeves? Second hand from a thrift shop will do just as well and will be cheaper.
Yes, and don't forget to haggle,maybe offer them an exchange for something you don't want.
Strodav wrote:
For your type of photography you probably want to capture the most detail possible, so I would recommend the 45.7mp D850, which is arguably the best dslr ever made. It has a built in focus stacking feature, which is great for macro work and the focus peaking feature is great for landscapes. I use a D500 for wildlife / birding and the D850 for everything else. The D850 is an amazing camera.
I'm sure I'd get as good photos with my excellent condition low usage D800, less danger of Moire anyway!
MichaelMcGrath wrote:
I still use the old D800, 36 megapixels is plenty for me and at least I don't get any moire.
- and in fact I'm still getting brilliant portraiture from the Canon 1Ds Mark 111.
I still use the old D800, 36 megapixels is plenty for me and at least I don't get any moire.
Yes, just like the OM2n I use, that came after it.
An OM10 broke in my hands!
ELNikkor wrote:
My dad, (an optical physicist with Kodak from the '50's to the '90's), always spoke highly of Olympus lenses. He'd be disappointed to know they are going under, but, hey! they've had an excellent run and the millions of Olympus lenses and cameras out there will still be with us for a long, long time.
Did your Dad say anything about the later Olympus AF lenses that went on the ill-fated OM 77 - I heard they are the best of the lot for sharpness and bokeh, that they are equal to Leica. I'd love to hear more in this regard from an obvious expert.
Did your Dad say anything about the later Olympus AF lenses that went on the ill-fated OM 77 - I heard they are the best of the lot for sharpness and bokeh, that they are equal to Leica. I'd love to hear more in this regard from an obvious expert.