[ratpack] Re: Am I nutz??
- From: Larry Knight <carpixguy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:01:09 -0600
I was organizing my photo stuff the other day and stumbled onto my old
Pentax K1000 file camera, with telephoto lens. I don't miss it at all. It
took me a second or two to figure out there is no LCD screen on the back.
Just for fun, I pressed the shutter, oops, there is still film in it. I
wonder whats on it?? Might be some racing pics from Laguna in 1993. Wish I
could just fire it up and check the LCD screen!!! NO I am never going back
to film!! I don't really think of myself as young and always needing instant
gratification, but in the photography world, I need it!!!
Larr
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:24 PM, <humminboid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I keep thinking I should simplify my life, somehow, including
> photography.
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> I keep looking at the ads for film cameras, like the little Canonet or
> other "pocket cameras", and I keep looking at all the film cameras that are
> looking for a good home, being sold because people have gone to
> digital, don't do film anymore, and never did know how to do it right,
> anyhow. A lot still don't know how to do good digital, either, but now they
> can do it faster than ever and more of it.
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> I used to be able to do photography and darkroom work pretty well, and the
> small 35mm cameras with f/1.8-2.8 lenses beat the digitals all hollow when
> you are trying to photograph small, active kids, or anything else that
> moves. ALL the small digitals all have shutter lag. Some are better than
> others, but they all have it, no matter what you try! And all the darkroom
> stuff I have in my basement!
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> I keep thinking of buying a Crown Graphic 4X5, or a Bushman Press Camera
> for the lens movement, or a Rolleiflex or Yashica MAT, and using it as a
> field camera, for large, tack-sharp enlargements. So far, I have taken a
> couple of aspirin, and laid down in a dark, quiet room, and the urge has
> gone away.
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> That is not simplification!
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> I keep thinking I ought to buy a film camera for old time's sake, but one
> that has the newer technology, like autofocus, matrix
> metering and different modes, plus manual, because they brought photography
> out of the dark ages, as far as I am concerned. I dearly love those
> upgrades, and the camera should be able to use my lenses,(probably
> will...it'll be a Nikon!) which will be a complete circle for the
> 70-210, "Iron Duke"...bought 20+ years ago for my 6006, which I dearly
> loved. It's still sharp and going strong!
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> I say that, then I go and buy a new lens, the 70-300 VR, which I say will
> be my racing car-air show-animal-bird lens. So far, it's proving that at
> 450mm equivalent, hand held, the sharpness is there. And I am not a steady
> as I once was, darn it!
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> Soooo... what's a guy to do? Halp!
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