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Nothing like a fast lens when you need to melt the background . . .
I have an XK with the much better Herman Munster prism. Otherwise known as the AE prism. The slightly smaller prism is the AE-S. The S was meant to be better but I much preferred the original one as you could see all the shutter speeds in the VF at once, the S version had this weird design where you had to flip a switch to see the speeds below 1/30 sec IIRC. And the needle in the original was much easier to see than the leds in the S - which were too dim in daylight, but too bright in the evening!
The original also had a cool exp comp lever, gone in the S. The S had quicker reacting spd cells vs cds, but it lost the awesome contrast comparison metering which basically was a fore runner of matrix.
Currently the Minolta 58 1.2 is attached to it (most recent version) which just melts away the background like nothing else. See attached.
If you really are interested in getting an XK, let me know…
250d looks really good!Muster prism. Yep. That's the one.
Any day now Huss and you'll open the box with a query about how cheap you'll pawn the monster off on 'lil 'ol me.
F3HP with a 24 2.8 and some 250D
I've only worked on a couple of models for very simple issues like shutter is locked up. Interestingly similar to how mechanical slot machines operate but much smaller. Otherwise I have yet to do a tear down rebuild which may come soon enough. However, I do have the teardown evaluations conducted on Modern and Popular photography magazines for these and there are no complaints on the LX. Topnotch as they say. I can understand that as a business one may not work on an item for any number of reasons - technical and/or philosophical. I used to repair electronic products before but I encountered some people who obviously did not know how to repair them - since they sent them to me, and would turn around and say that because of my work that something completely unrelated is now broken. I suppose that in this age of the net, those same folks may have gotten louder . . .
Nothing like a fast lens when you need to melt the background . . .
Selection 39 by Les DMess, on Flickr
As for F4 vs N8008 (or whatever plastic one was mentioned), there is a little hype but the F4 is so much more enjoyable to use, and so much more intuitive with its wonderful, large, ergonomic dials that for me the question is why would you get the NXxxx if you can afford an excellent F4.
There were no complaints when they did the tear downs because they were new cameras. They had no idea how they would suffer w age, and the LX clearly did not age as well as the F3.
Even the Leica R5 - which is of the same era as the LX - is a much more solid camera today!
I don't own an F4 but have never been tempted to buy one. My F801s is way more compact and lighter. My F90X is fine too, though it's the biggest and heaviest 35mm camera I would carry.
The F4 seems to me too big, too bulky. I don't have any use for all that mass in a 35mm camera. There is a certain weight/bulk limit over which I will always prefer to pack one of my 6x6 TLRs over a SLR, or my Fuji GA645i.
So even if one can afford a big bulky "pro" 35mm other considerations come in, for me the most important being the the frame size/weight ratio.
The comments made were quality parts were used. Since both my LX are 100%, that must be true. And of course a good working LX is better than many other good working cameras . . .
250d looks really good!
Nikon F3HP is quite amazing in capturing day light pictures. I m using this camera but i want to upgrade it. so can anyone help me to select better camera than Nikon F3HP ???
If you go on Instagram, the F3's waist-level viewfinder is plastered literally everywhere. Might be a newer generation thing, as it says you joined Photrio before I was born.
Nikon F3HP is quite amazing in capturing day light pictures. I m using this camera but i want to upgrade it. so can anyone help me to select better camera than Nikon F3HP ???
250d looks really good!
Funny enough, I picked up an F3 because I stumbled across a ton of bulk 250D. All said and done, I have over 20+ rolls of +/- 35 exp 250D that cost around $4.55 a roll, and I have more bulk reels I haven't rerolled. More and more film labs (I use Brooktree Studios) are offering ECN-2 processing or at least humor the Remjet layer in development.
This is just some random picture I found on the internet, but apparently, maybe, just maybe it could be that 250D shares its emulsion with Portra 400. I'm not one to trust the internet much but not many trolls see a whole lot of reward in pranking film shooters. Portra 400 stock shares very similar roots to 250D, the colors are splendid on 250D regardless. So I will be shooting it along with a 500T roll I have yet to roll into 35mm canisters at my university's dark room. This is a much more affordable way for me to shoot film and eliminates the hassle to go out and source more rolls whenever my freezer gets depleted. Besides, a 5-pack of Portra 400 is $70+. That's just insane.
In my crappy, damaged coating Minolta lens that I thrifted, it produced some crazy highlights when overexposed + wide open. 500T is the same thing as Cinestill 800T, and that's all the rage for tungsten light night photography now. These photos are quite bad but exhibit the colors from the test roll of 500T that I shot.I've not had much luck getting good colors out of 500T. I keep trying though.
In my crappy, damaged coating Minolta lens that I thrifted, it produced some crazy highlights when overexposed + wide open. 500T is the same thing as Cinestill 800T, and that's all the rage for tungsten light night photography now. These photos are quite bad but exhibit the colors from the test roll of 500T that I shot.
(http://imgur.com/a/B8FRDXq)
I think maybe 500T works better in native ECN-II chemistry.
Definitely, but for cost purposes, I'll learn to deal with 500T as it is with the labs available.
This is just some random picture I found on the internet, but apparently, maybe, just maybe it could be that 250D shares its emulsion with Portra 400.
In my crappy, damaged coating Minolta lens that I thrifted, it produced some crazy highlights when overexposed + wide open. 500T is the same thing as Cinestill 800T, and that's all the rage for tungsten light night photography now. These photos are quite bad but exhibit the colors from the test roll of 500T that I shot.
(http://imgur.com/a/B8FRDXq)
My first roll:I like the first pic. The funniest comment I read about Cinestill 800 is that you have to take at least one pic of a gas station at night.
My first roll:
Rules are rules.
My first roll:
Rules are rules.
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