Re: Manual cameras in general

Gary:
Without aperture priority autoexposure and autofocus I would miss 90% of the flight shots I get with either EOS 1D or 10D. While my M7 is great for people and place features Canon digital SLRs with autoexposure and autofocus and image-stabilized long telephotos have become essential to my way of working wildlife.

Yes the images are slightly 'soft' compared to film. Perhaps an EOS 1D mk II would cure some of that. And I still like the 'look' of images from the 90mm f/2 APO-Summicron ASPH. But it's hard to beat shots of that great egret from less than 20 feet with my EF 400mm f/4 DO IS and EOS 10D handheld:
http://www.mountain-and-desert.com/Wildlife/Birds/Long-Legged/DBW-GE0018-5.htm

I've never had problems with battery life in Canon digital SLRs even in December morning cold at Bosque del Apache. (My Nikon D1H consumed batteries very quickly, one of the reasons I sold it.)

I started with an M3 and migrated to Canon F1n and FD lenses so I can understand your point of view. Today's electronic tools are the right ones for my work. It's unfortunate almost no one cares today about the 'look' a lens gives to an image.


At 11:28 AM 6/29/2004, you wrote: 
As I work every single day at work with a highly electronic, yet wonderful
Canon Eos 1d body, I have been using my Leica M4-2 body, and my fleet of
perfectly functioning Nikon F, and FTN bodies along with the manual focus
lenses and so forth that I have during my non-work hours.

What I don't miss is having to worry excessively about the life left in a
given digital camera battery.  I think that makes it in the one less thing
to worry about dept.  I also really appreciate thinking of picking a shutter
speed and then either calculating or using a meter for the f stop.  There
are times I think it is every bit as fast as the latest and greatest.

Not that I am fully analog with this gear.  The images get scanned with my
film scanner and redied for output via a fuji frontier printer.  The power
of Photoshop is just to convienient for me.

I think for commercial applications film, except for specialized conditions
really dead.    But for my puttering around home, its great.

These are merely my observations...

gck


Mark Bohrer
www.mountain-and-desert.com
Adventure travel and wildlife photography 


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