Originally posted by Lowell Goudge What I really liked about them, and also my KX when you shoot ultra low shutter speeds is the whine of the clockwork timing mechanism.
It disappeared overnight with the electronically timed shutters.
Or how about this one: mechanical timed shutter
releases! With my Olympus OM-2 it was always dicey whether the time-delay springs would tough it out all the way to triggering the release, or run out of gas first.
I took this photo of myself (left) and my band (my first car, a
Lada Niva at right) using the mechanical timed shutter release on my Yashika TLR, back in the day (WHIRRRRRRRRR....):
And I didn't convert that to B&W...it
was B&W. Ah, soooooo old-school.
What was the subject of this thread again? Manual camera nostalgia, right?