Affordable compact camera

[George Mann]

With a stepless electronic shutter speed of 1/1000 or greater, and a good quality lens? Does one exist?

My Pentax will only do 1/400, which is not fast enough for slide film at the brightest time of day

 

[George Mann]

Before someone mentions that the lens should stop down enough to make up for it, yes it will stop down enough, but with noticeable disfraction distortion that I am trying to avoid.

 

[Ariston]

George, I sent you a PM. I have a Canon Z155 that supposedly goes to 1/1200 sec. I've never used it, so I don't know how good it is. It looks like a decent point and shoot.

 

[George Mann]

George, I sent you a PM. I have a Canon Z155 that supposedly goes to 1/1200 sec. I've never used it, so I don't know how good it is. It looks like a decent point and shoot.

And I sent you a reply stating that Canon says that it's top shutter speed is 1/790 @ f15.5 - f28.5 wide to tele.

Thus the disfraction limitation remains the same, which is very noticeable when shooting slide film.

 

[dourbalistar]

I don't know what Pentax you already have, or what your specific definitions of "affordable" and "compact" are... but based on your listed requirements, perhaps check out the Pentax ME Super. Stepless electronic shutter in auto mode (aperture priority), with shutter speeds up to 1/2000. Pentax K mount, so you should have a range of quality lenses. I find it to be one of the smaller SLR cameras, and you can still find it for a relatively modest price.

 

[Paul Howell]

I assume that your Pentax is point and shoot IQ zoom. Only a few of the very high end and expensive point and shoot compacts had shutter with a top speed of 1/1000 and those came with a fixed wide angle lens. Consumer level point and shoots were designed for color negative film, ISO 200 and 400 with a lens that will stop down to F 22 and slow shutters. For slide film I would step it up to a small body SLR, like the Minolta 600 SI classic. Top shutter speed 1/4000 used Minolta A mount, will work with the vast majority of Minolta AF lens the exception being very late model micro motor lens, will work with any gear driven lens. Meter is good, spot, average and matrix, matrix metering is very good with slide film. Has manual, program, shutter speed and aperture preferred auto exposure, lens AF or turn off the AF and manual focus. You can get a 600 with a short zoom for under $50, a 50mm 1.7 prime for under a $100.

 

[Paul Howell]

BTW if f we are talking about consumer point and shoot AF cameras, the reason for slow shutter speed is they use a leaf shutter.

 

[George Mann]

Yes, it has a leaf shutter. An SLR is too big to carry all the time, or I would get a Nikon FG.

It has gotten to the point that serious film photography has become a hopeless endeavor short of engaging in extensive travel.

 

[MattKing]

If you like your Pentax, and the meter cell is behind the filter rings, add a ND filter to your camera bag.

 

[Paul Howell]

My Pentax IQ zooms the sensor is on the body of camera and the lens does not have filter rings. My older AF fixed lens point and shoots, some do and some don't.

 

[Paul Howell]

BTW, if you are shooting ISO 100, noon, ISO 100 1/100 of a second at F 16, don't really understand why you need a shutter faster than 1/400 of a second. I've shot a lot of color film, negative and slide in my Yashica 6X6, Mamiya 6X9 even a Kodak Tourist, the Yashica and Mamiya top shutter speed is 1/500, the Kodak is 1/400, meter with various hand held meters without needing a shutter speed more than 1/125 or 1/250th.

 

[George Mann]

I am going to end this particular inquiry since it failed to produce the answers I was looking for.

 

[Ariston]

And I sent you a reply stating that Canon says that it's top shutter speed is 1/790 @ f15.5 - f28.5 wide to tele.

Thus the disfraction limitation remains the same, which is very noticeable when shooting slide film.

Something is amiss. I do not have a PM from you. I think what was said above is correct = leaf shutters won’t give you what you need.

 

[dynachrome]

I agree that an ME Super would work. To keep things small you could put on a 40/2.8. A 50/1.7 would be a little sharper but the 40 is still nice.