Want 35mm camera for my gf

[alfa147x]

at worst case you can send it to me, i've got MF holders for my canon. not sure if i have software to run the scanner tho. i'll check when i get home.

Thanks! I just dropped them off at Wolf Camera $10 for prints :\
Oh well...

 

[alfa147x]

get the bigger instax camera... I forgot what it's called, but it'll develope right in front of you!!!! And it'll be 120 size, possibly bigger!

I also want to start developing film!

 

[Throckmorton]

Why can't digital photos jumpstart her memory?

 

[alfa147x]

Why can't digital photos jumpstart her memory?

We are less inclined to get prints made.

 

[iGas]

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.

 

[Sp12]

Let me know when/if you decide to let your MF lenses go, I'm looking for some to make a hack tilt project.

 

[finbarqs]

digital vs. film, fight!

 

[shortylickens]

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.

 

[angry hampster]

I'm a big fanof my Ricoh KR-5 Super. I use it with a 50mm f/2 lens. They go on ebay for about $30-40.

 

[finbarqs]

is that the rangefinder?

 

[alfa147x]

How does focusing work on a rangefinder? Guess?

 

[ElFenix]

How does focusing work on a rangefinder? Guess?

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.

 

[alfa147x]

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.

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

 

[ElFenix]

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.

 

[angry hampster]

is that the rangefinder?

SLR/pentaprism

 

[JohnnyRebel]

Nothing is simpler than the classic Trip 35. Great lens & Solar powered.

http://www.tripman.co.uk/70132/info.php?p=3&pno=0

 

[alkemyst]

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.

 

[alfa147x]

Actually she really likes her Holga. I think it was the perfect fit

 

[finbarqs]

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!

 

[ElFenix]

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.

as per the thread, she already has one.

 

[finbarqs]

yup... film baby film! instax is the new trend!

 

[alfa147x]

Just got the first roll. Here are the scans of the prints. She loves it so far

 

[finbarqs]

nice! now all yous gotta do, is convince her to do more photoshoots with you!