A warm hello to all! I joined a while back and just getting around to my introduction.
I am returning to film photography after 40 years or so. My motivation was my viewing some of my slides I had made back in the 60s and 70s in preparation to scan them. I was blown away by the quality, the warmth, the depth of field control evident in those old analog images I had taken with my Kodak Retina IIf and Miranda Sensorex. Those film images quickly disillusioned me about the results I was getting from the couple of P&S digitals I'd received as gifts in the last 15 years or so. I had an immediate and irresistible GAS attack, going on a binge for 35mm rangefinders and SLRs! I was amazed that I could now own, for very reasonable money, those very same film cameras and lenses that were out of my financial reach back in the day! My acquisitions have not been of the elite of the vintage film cameras, but of those that were considered advanced amateur or enthusiast cameras. They are all still very capable mechanical wonders for capturing wonderful images.
I did make one digital SLR purchase - a barely used Pentax K5. Whereas my film camera manuals are all less than 50 pages or so and can be absorbed in a couple of days, I found the K5 manual a daunting task to wade through - 378 pages! I'm still trying to learn all the intricacies of that camera's operation, even as I am already back in the traces in using those old film cameras. I may never become proficient in using that K5!
Stan
I am returning to film photography after 40 years or so. My motivation was my viewing some of my slides I had made back in the 60s and 70s in preparation to scan them. I was blown away by the quality, the warmth, the depth of field control evident in those old analog images I had taken with my Kodak Retina IIf and Miranda Sensorex. Those film images quickly disillusioned me about the results I was getting from the couple of P&S digitals I'd received as gifts in the last 15 years or so. I had an immediate and irresistible GAS attack, going on a binge for 35mm rangefinders and SLRs! I was amazed that I could now own, for very reasonable money, those very same film cameras and lenses that were out of my financial reach back in the day! My acquisitions have not been of the elite of the vintage film cameras, but of those that were considered advanced amateur or enthusiast cameras. They are all still very capable mechanical wonders for capturing wonderful images.
I did make one digital SLR purchase - a barely used Pentax K5. Whereas my film camera manuals are all less than 50 pages or so and can be absorbed in a couple of days, I found the K5 manual a daunting task to wade through - 378 pages! I'm still trying to learn all the intricacies of that camera's operation, even as I am already back in the traces in using those old film cameras. I may never become proficient in using that K5!
Stan