Originally posted by Nesster [removes tongue from cheek] there is something to that retro-chic, so many people, myself included, are getting into vintage cameras, including ones we wouldn't have taken a second look 20 years ago... Of course many of these cameras are fine instruments then and now.
You know, my first camera was a Yashica Campus, and I did actually own a slide rule. Never used it - it was five bucks from a second hand store in Inverell that imported them from China - but I had one and from it I learned that if you're willing to use a slide rule over a mid-nineties pocket calculator you're gonna need one to work out how much time you've wasted on slide rulers.
The past is there to learn from. To regress back to it...well, would I rather have AF and the Internet or film-only and the Cold War?
Originally posted by ftpaddict Photographers "born" in the digital age are really quite ignorant. (I'm generalizing now, it doesn't apply to everyone who reads this!)
Are you the same ftpaddict to whom I recommended a film that was first made two years before my father was born
?
My first serious camera was the *istDS. Later, I picked up a Ricoh KR10M, an ME, a pair of ME Supers, even an old Lubitel (wanna help me fix the *&6%ing thing?) and one of the cheap AF Pentaxes.
I'm backwards in that I think, today, that digital is still the best way for kids like me to learn. Anyone who suggest the ol' "MF only, film only, manual only, camera that weighs the same as a US car" approach is seriously under- or overestimating todays youth.
Originally posted by zx-m Yes, lithos, it has to be better!
See, that's why you'll never be a pro - a guy who people pay to take photos - look, I don't where, at parties and stuff like you do now, and they'll still marvel at your camera. Myspace photos. Maybe weddings, but you don't know anyone who's getting married. Of course, most of it'll be passing your 1Ds around to really let every drunken idiot gawk at how cool it is. Same as now. It's cool, they don't know that most of the work is coming from the camera. Learning about lighting and taxes and business laws and stuff is just so boring - you can work for free as long as they give you a bar tab. Well, you'll have to buy a flas- sorry, a
Speedlite - those things look really pro.
Wait. You spent how much on a body? Fifteen hundred. Ah, you must've gotten the 200mm f3.5 L IS lens second hand. No? An actual new camera body? Hah. Oh, no-nononono-nooo I wasn't laughing at...you. Ok. Good luck to you. You just might wanna go for something that's little better, that's all. I mean,
PC Gamer and Cool Beeping Shiny Things Magazine gave the IDs 9.5 out of 10, only marking down on price, but how can that be a disadvantage? I mean it's higher res than film. Well, yeah, even that medium format stuff or whatever, probably. Trust me, it's better. Jeez. All this time "taking" photos - and you don't even have a business card with your flickr profile and Gmail address on it - maybe you should start getting serious.