Originally posted by mecrox Thanks for that very interesting reply, noser, and congrats on your new purchase! I'll admit I've been tempted to try this route myself. There is a popular street photographer in this town who uses all sorts of old MF and plate cameras with superb results - see
here.
That is some outstanding work! I'm going to do some reading on the stock and techniques used.
Originally posted by mecrox TI'm just interested in the way digital photography is going, I suppose. All sorts of new things are coming out so there are plenty of changes in store. Even so I suppose the best camera I've ever owned was an FE2 back in the day. It survived 3-4 trips to India, got doused in gasolene at one point, was used as a club to fight off a pariah dog, was dropped onto pavements - you name it. But it never failed to work and compared to today's cameras both it and a fast fifty were a snap to carry.
I like 35mm for fast work. I got hung up trying to outguess digital, but after a couple of years I really noticed what I was really most interested in was the result of certain optics. 85mm on FF is one of my faves. 50mm on APS-C is close, but still different. Whoever said 'pick your lenses first and the body second' was a genius.