[rollei_list] Eschewing digital there is one bright spot of hope
- From: Mark Kronquist <mak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:41:26 -0700
www.bluemooncamera.com
8417 N Lombard in Portland
503 978 0333
Only digital camera in the place is a old D1 I found for them to shoot for
ebay...great wet lab...if you choose to eschew digital Jake and crew are with
you
On Jul 10, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Don Williams wrote:
> At 07:14 PM 7/10/2010, you wrote:
>> Well, I did pick up a Canon EOS Rebel Ti1 500 or whatever it is, with a
>> simple 18mm to 55mm zoom. Thanks to those on this List and to those on the
>> IDCC, I managed to locate Fotodix and to score an M42 adapter and the proper
>> lens hood. So far, so good.
>>
>> Several problems.
>>
>> First, the camera is so damnably complicated that it will take me 25 years
>> to learn all of its foibles. I dumped my last modern Canon -- a film EOS
>> 10s -- in part because I had to carry the manual about when using it. This
>> camera is even more complex and I just do not see how anyone could ever use
>> it save in full automatic mode. It is hugely complex and, like the film
>> 10s, not the least bit intuitive. (I rather enjoy taking a Contax II and a
>> roll of XP2 and just shooting pictures -- but learning film is so very much
>> easier than learning digital.) I am 60 and not at all certain that I wish
>> to spend the rest of my life learning about Mode 32, Menu 9, and the like.
>> Photography ought to be simple: a) insert film b) insert the lens c)
>> take pictures.
>>
>> Second, I have no means of downloading the pictures easily. While Canon
>> claims their software works on Windows XP, it gags on my computer and will
>> not work. And the card reader also fails to respond. We did download the
>> first set of pictures to my wife's laptop and she e-mailed me some pictures,
>> but there must be a more decent workaround short of taking the card to
>> WalMart and having them transfer them to a CD-Rom. This camera takes an HD
>> SD card or somesuch, and that seems part of the problem.
>
> I have about a half dozen adapters, some dating from the HP 98/100/200 LX
> days. [PCMCIA] Never had an interface problem.
>
> For digital I never use the camera vendor software, just windows explorer and
> whatever combination of adapters that work to make the interface.
>
> Only one suggestion, when transferring images to a computer, be sure to set
> the chip, whatever it is, to write-protect and if you are using windows,
> check the little "safe to remove" box on the bottom right of the screen
> before you remove it.. As it turns out, my console dates from the time where
> an external adapter is required. Been using the same one for 10 years,
> handles about 5-6 types of devices. My laptop, being born during this
> century, takes about 6 devices in native mode.
>
> Actually I generally use a USB cable and treat the camera as another drive
> and use windows explorer to do the file copy.
>
>> Oy, Vey, my children! I mourn the days of chemical film. I am not a happy
>> camper.
>
> Yes, digital cameras have many options, but far less than your chemical,
> camera, and film options. The difference is that with a digital camera you
> have access to all options at one instant, but with film you usually deal
> with options serially. I do find that with digital the best approach is to
> follow the book, test each option, and just remember the ones of interest to
> you- same as working with film.
>
> For some perspective, imagine you walk up to a store with every type of film
> and format, all available cameras and lenses, all enlargers, all chemicals
> ever compounded, etc. You have never seen 95% of them. Now take a picture!
>
>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>>
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