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Want 35mm camera for my gf

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Stick with digital.

Hogas tend to produce soft images, wash out colour, as well as strong vignetting.

Develop B/W film isn't bad, but it get expensive when come to colour & slide.

I donated my colour & B/W darkroom equipment away more than a decade ago because it is much cheaper for the lab to process it than doing it at home.

At the moment I'm thinking of getting rid of my Mamiya medium format, 3 lenses, 2 flash, and 2 light meters. And put the money toward a new Canon 5D MKII.
 
Let me know when/if you decide to let your MF lenses go, I'm looking for some to make a hack tilt project.
 
For cheap scrapbooking I'd recommend those little cardboard cameras. I think some of them include the cost of processing if you take it back where you got it.
Like you buy one for 20 bucks at CVS and return it at CVS, they will do all your 3x5 or 4x6 prints free.
 
alfa147x said:
How does focusing work on a rangefinder? Guess?
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you line up two images in the coincident rangefinder to set the range.

a system of mirrors and prisms makes a triangle. one image comes straight into the viewfinder as the A side of the triangle, and the other comes in as the C side and then goes through the camera as the B side. a mirror on the left of the camera rotates moving the image that has gone through the longer path back and forth. when the images are aligned the range is set. they mechanically link the lens focusing helical and the rangefinder rotating mirror so that you don't have to transfer the setting yourself.

phase detect AF on an SLR is a rangefinder system as well. the triangle base is the opposite sides of the wide open lens aperture.
 
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ElFenix said:
you line up two images in the coincident rangefinder to set the range.

a system of mirrors and prisms makes a triangle. one image comes straight into the viewfinder as the A side of the triangle, and the other comes in as the C side and then goes through the camera as the B side. a mirror on the left of the camera rotates moving the image that has gone through the longer path back and forth. when the images are aligned the range is set. they mechanically link the lens focusing helical and the rangefinder rotating mirror so that you don't have to transfer the setting yourself.

phase detect AF on an SLR is a rangefinder system as well. the triangle base is the opposite sides of the wide open lens aperture.
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Thanks a lot. Sometimes I wish I was born in the film age. It's very intriguing. I should buy a rangefinder to shoot and process B&W film
 
sorry, the rotating part is on the right side of the camera. i'm directionally dyslexic. always point or turn the right way but say the wrong way.
 
Man a film camera is the last thing I'd buy for someone not really into photography.

Buy her a digital, set her up with a upload service for prints and that'd be great...they even arrive at your door.
 
a Film camera is the first thing you should buy someone who's not really into photography... The colors come out incredibly/perfectly saturated. Contrast is perfect, and you don't even need to import them into photoshop!
 
alkemyst said:
Man a film camera is the last thing I'd buy for someone not really into photography.

Buy her a digital, set her up with a upload service for prints and that'd be great...they even arrive at your door.
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as per the thread, she already has one.
 
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Just got the first roll. Here are the scans of the prints. She loves it so far
 
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