OLD camera's Are still Great!

[MattKing]

Mine have names so that I can keep track of them and it makes it easier to keep track of them with notes and reminders.

Do you refer to one of your Hasselblads as "My Precious"?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Do you refer to one of your Hasselblad's as "My Precious"?

That is the name of my girlfriend's car. Good question though.

 

[Dan Fromm]

Y'know, some cameras were cheap crap when made and are still cheap crap. This goes for cameras made long ago and for ones made recently. The best that can be said for them is that they all met a need, usually at a low price Consider, for example, the humble Photax. Some were not so cheap but still crap. Consider, for example, the Regula Reflex CTL 2000.

 

[lobitar]

Mine have names so that I can keep track of them and it makes it easier to keep track of them with notes and reminders.

Good idea - only you have to be careful not to give them names they don't like - being anthropomorphized and all?

 

[eddie]

Mine have names so that I can keep track of them ....

I haven't gone that far, but I get it.

 

[rubbernglue]

My recent "discovery" was my latest trip a few weeks ago in eastern europe where me and a friend visited a few towns in between budapest in hungary and bucarest in romania.
The thing was that he had a Nikon F6 with a Nikkor 24-70 AFS lens, which is pretty much as modern you can get in terms of film photography. Myself though used (for most parts) a Fujica ST-801 with a few (m42) lenses. The metering is way off on the fujica so I mostly used personal feel when it came to light settings (f/16 rule) and very often zone-focusing on the lens in order to just shoot when I see something! Funny enough our ways of thinking when shooting was way different, as he rarely could tell afterwards which settings he had used, for instance I asked him as we had both photographed a man feeding doves, and I wondered how his mind went when it came to movement of the birds in his frame - I shot it at 1/60 and he had no idea. The point of this was that I always had perfect knowledge of my settings, and it helped me wherever I was!

Even more amusing was that after three rolls shot with this camera during this trip I didnt have EVEN ONE failed exposure! He though had lots, and this was partly since he had used bracketing at some point (big mistake!) and temporary manual settings among others...

Now I know a Fujica ST-801 is not the oldes of the oldies, but still it was made far before I was born and damn it was nice to use!


422 PanF 19 by Johan, on Flickr