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6 responses to “Buying another Film Camera”

1. 2004/04/20

   Mark Musante

   re: Buying another Film Camera

   Heh. You feel the need for a bit more kit in order to shoot girls with a bit less kit.

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2. 2004/04/20

   alecm

   Calendar Girls

   <grin> – yeah, some of the girls around the office have been training to participate in a marathon – http://www.walkthewalk.org/ – and having gotten themselves uberfit, inspired by a recent movie have decided to do a genteel calendar for charity, as a souvenir.

   …and on the basis of my past experience, I got tapped as photographer.

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3. 2004/04/21

   Keith Bierman

   re: Buying another Film Camera

   You really might want to reconsider the film bit. My wife is a long time Nikon film fan (so has a panoply of lenses). We just got her a D70 and it’s unclear just when she’ll load up any of the three film bodies in her collection again.

   http http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond70/ http http://www.cameraworld.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=13129501&location=GGSPRD&storeId=10151&processRequest=10002&cm_ref=http%3A%2F%2Ffroogle.google.com%2Ffroogle%3Fq%3Dnikon+d70&btnG=Search+Froogle&prp=541538922&langId=-1&catalogId=10001

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4. 2004/04/21

   Chris Savage

   re: Buying another Film Camera

   you’ve probably made your mind up by now, but here’s my 2p:

   I’ve had an F80 since late 2000. Lovely camera, handles nicely, all the bells and whistles you’d ever use and a few you never will — I particularly like auto-bracketing in motor-drive mode. Autofocus is as good as autofocus can be (but I hate autofocus.) And the batteries last forever, I’ve been carrying the current spare set around so long I’m starting to worry about their shelf life

   However, I keep going back to my ancient OM2. I just can’t get the kind of shots on the Nikon particularly through the nasty cheap zoom they sell on their sub-professional models. Even against the Nikkor 20mm prime the old Olympus glass is so much better.

   And, it’s a monster to carry around but not as bad as the D100.

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5. 2004/04/21

   alecm

   re: Buying another Film Camera

   thanks for the comments – i *am* still thinking, but i am really torn by what keith said. I have a total budget of 1200 quid max, but that breaks down as one of:

   1) Film SLR, adequate AF lens, film scanner — or:

   2) Digital SLR, adequate lens — or:

   3) Digital SLR, cheap lens, film scanner

   …and I really am rather torn about where to go from here. I have an archive of film (old, current and future, care of my old Canon, and the Minox GT-E) so a scanner would be lovely; I could get one and skip this generation of Digital in favour of a 5400 DPI Minolta scanner…

   …or, I could do like Keith says, and go Big Digital

   Argh, I hate indecision, and I dislike option 3.

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6. 2004/04/22

   Keith Bierman

   re: Buying another Film Camera

   The “kit” lens with the D70 is really quite good (at this point, with a wee person,we are using the portait lens a lot as well).

   ’twere it me, I’d go with with (2) for now. Get an older scanner on ebay for the old film/slide conversion in your spare time. But you could put that off, you may be spending too much time outside taking new pictures to justify the scanner purchase just now ;>

   If you have enough invested in cannon lenses you could easily go with with their new model. While I don’t think it’s quite as good as the Nikon it’s not a bad choice … and not having to retrain your fingers or give up your lens ensemble are significant factors in my book.

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