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