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Forum: General Photography
10-04-2021, 01:12 PM
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I guess I had some plastic 35mm cameras first. But, my first real camera was a K1000. My parents got it for me when I took photography in school. I had the original 50mm kit lens for it and a 24mm picked up on holiday in england so I could get pics of buildings without having to stand a block away. I loved that camera. Well meaning friends talked me into a nikon since apparently that was required in order to get better pics. I HATED the nikon. Ultimately my hatred for it made me give up on film cameras and go digital. After a year or two of cooling off and shooting the digital, I realized I really missed film and more particularly, I missed the K1000. I was very happy taking pics with it. It suited me. So, I got another and this time out, since digital had become the "thing", all the old film cameras and lenses were practically free. I bought all the lenses I always wanted and could never afford when I was a kid.
I finally broke down and got a proper digital slr two years ago and went Pentax on that as well. The kit lenses are just fine. But, I also like being able to use all the primes I've got for the K1000 as well. So, even with newer cameras, I'm sticking with Pentax.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-21-2018, 08:32 PM
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Everything went well. On the test shots I used 28mm, 35mm and 50mm. Through the lens, the 50 looked gorgeous. I was sure that was going to be the best. But, in print, the results from all three lenses were comparable.
For the party I used the 28 and the 35. I probably could have used only the 35 and been just fine. I shot fuji 400 but exposed it as 200. Flash sync on the mesuper is 1/120. So, the only thing I had to keep an eye on was focus and f stop. Most everything was shot between f/11 and f/16.
A few days after I gave her the pics, one of the ladies from the party asked if I would do some portrait work for her.
Thanks everybody for the tips!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-03-2016, 07:52 AM
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He repaired an m-series lens for me a few years ago. It had some issues with oil on the blades keeping the aperture settings from working correctly. His work was perfect on it. Came back in good as new condition. I use it all the time and have had zero issues with it since his repair.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-09-2015, 05:51 PM
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A lot of us that shoot film learned that first. When the first digital cameras came out they were expensive and the results weren't great. Then, by the time they got to be worth buying, you'd find yourself as a great photog with decades of experience getting schooled about menus and computer editing by some chump kid that didn't know what an f stop was. There's only so much of that a guy can take. My grandad never learned to program a vcr. I'll probably never learn to do anything more than point and shoot with a digital camera. But, I shoot film, I develop my own and I enjoy doing it. That's good enough for me.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-08-2015, 11:07 AM
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The more complicated my cameras got, the less fun they were to use.
I went back to the stuff I know and understand and I'm happier for it.
Ultimately, being really good as a photographer means mastering your process, learning it inside and out so that you can control and manipulate it to get the end result you want. I learned that on film, because that's what we had. I think these days kids are learning how to do that with digital because it's what they have. I've found that they're just as mystified by how I do what I do as I am about how they do what they do.
In either case, if you're letting your camera make all the decisions, then it's just snaps. When you manipulate the process, then you're taking photos.
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