I attempted to list this as a Poll, but I kept getting an error msg. Which do you guys/gals shoot? 35mm or Digital? And what type of gear do you guys/gals use? I shoot with a NIKON F, mostly print film (color and B & W) for now...I use my 35mm wide angle, and my vivitar 80-200 telephoto lens mostly.
I use 2 Canon AE-1's, one with a reg lense, the other with a 70-210 telephoto. K-64 is my reg slide film but depending on the season, also use K-25 and/or K-200 slide film- doing it this way since 1975.
Mike, I'm jealous. Always wanted a Nikon F. Nikon makes the best lenses in the world. I use Pentaxes, all sorts of lenses, but the 28 to 85 zoom is the most useful. Recently bought a camcorder that has a low resolution still digital capability, and am impressed. Son-in-law has a Nikon digital which does amazing things. Guess I'll go digital soon.
I shoot with a Nikon 35mm rig and then scan with a Olympus and HP scanners. My main body is a Nikon FM-10 which usually has Fuji Velvia or Astia loaded. Riding along are also a Nikon EM and Olympus Stylus Epic, both of which usually are loaded with Kodak T-Max 400. My Nikon glass includes a 24mm f/2.8, 50mm f/1.8, and a 200mm f/4. In addition, I soon plan to add to that a 35-70mm f/3.3.-4.5, 135mm f/3.5, and a 2X teleconverter. That all gets packed in a small Tamrac photo backpack along with the usual compliment of accessories, filters, threaded locking cable release, pens, markers, spare batteries, Vivitar flash, etc. I also carry a Velbon 7000 tripod, which I soon hope to replace with a Bogen 3021.
I use a Digital, the Olympus D450 zoom. I never could wait for developing, so I used a Polaroid before the digital's arrived. Within 5 years, at the current rate of improvement, most any digital sold will compete favorably with affordable 35mm camera's (some of the $1000 models already do!). Add most $100+ inkjet printers with photo paper, and you have a complete photo lab setup for instant gratification!
How do we get someone to understand that when they email us a photo, that we are NOT at all patient enough to sit for 19 minutes watching his photo slowly down load, or up load as the case may be? My guess is he took a scan or digi-pix at full 100% everything as if he expected it to be such a masterpiece that all of us were going to desire to buy one sheet of chromecoat hygloss photo print paper just to make a copy of his handywork! (Then we are going to throw it away?) How do we tell this idiot that all we want to do is get a quick look at his pix, then go on to something else, like if it was just a post on a chat room? If we just have to have a museum copy, we can email him and ask for it, right?
Very good point Watash, when I first made my website I posted big (220K) photos but people quickly e-mailed saying my page took too long to load. Later I learned to resize them smaller, and reduce color count to make the page acceptable to a 28.8K modem user. Even some pictures posted here take a while to view, so I try to post the link if there are too many pictures in a thread, that way people can click on the link to view it, and as later posts show up, you can skip to the ones you have not seen. Maybe that should be the proper etiquette to be used, for forums like this use hyperlinks, and for e-mails, no more than say 100K worth of attachments, ending the message with "reply for larger photo's" or or something? I am on a cable modem at home, dsl at my apartment (I work 4 counties away), and dialup at work, and the cable modem is actually the slowest for picture downloads!
Fitz...I got the Nikon F, believe it or not for free...about 17yrs ago. I worked at a camera repair shop...the shop actually had two of them for repair. The original owner never claimed them...prolly thinking they were too old, bulky etc..compared to the newer and sexier 35mm cams at the time. So the shop owner gave me one of them, including 35mm, 50 mm and 135 mm nikor lenses. I have used and abused it eversince. Brian..you sound like you are hooked up!! when you hit the rails. I use to carry two cameras with me too...back in-the-day. I had an AV-1 and a AE-1 program. One was loaded with kodachrome the other with Plus X. Mike
HI!Folks! I use a minolta XTSI QD slr with a 75-300mm tele,28-80 mm wide angle,a sigma 24--70 aspherical, super wide angle. My backup is a manual Chinon CM-7 with a 50mm1.9 and a 80-200 tele! I shoot fuji 100 or agfa optima2 100 or 400 in the minolta and iilford delta 100 or 400 speed black&white in the manual! A sakar heavy tripod, cable release, filters, and all the other attendent gear. Richard! [ 12 June 2002, 23:46: Message edited by: r watson ]
NEW TOY! NEW TOY! Just got back from the photo shop in Toledo today. Picked up a Nikon N80 and 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 AF-G lens... Nice combo, hope to try it out in Washington on my vacation this weekend...
I have been using a Pentax Zx7 switching between my 28-80mm lens and my 80-300 mm telephoto. For Film I use fujichrome professional slide film such as the 100 Provi F and the 400 Provia F. The grain is excellent on both films. Slide film I stay away from is the Fuji Velvia, Fuji Sensia 200 speed and higher, and k-chrome 200. I have never had good luck with the k-chrome 200. As for digital, I am now also using a new Sony Camcorder that has digital still capability. I can run the video, and then while recording take a digital shot of the same object and upload it to my computer. Talk about instant gratification. This camcorder has 15x optical and 420x digital zoom. To say the least I am happy with it. The only drawback with digital is that if you belong to a club, it is kind of hard to join in on the slideshow/bull sessions that occassional happen. But this may change in a few years, because I have a feeling that someone is going to come out with an affordable digital projector. They already have digital projectors but at around $5,000 it is beyond the range of the average user.
I shoot with a Nikormat and several lens's. I have just recently pick up my wife's digital HP camera. While I like the instant gratification with the digital, nothing beats real film and a real shutter. I find that I get better composition in the negative with my Nikormat and don't guess when to shoot. I used print film for the last 4 or 5 years once we got a flat bed scanner. Last year we bought a slide/negative scanner and I am leaning towards my K64 again and trying some Fuji film. I have been shooting since 1971 and still prefer the real film over digital. I find the use for digital excels in web page where the quality isn't as necessary as getting the picture on line quickly. For the sharing of information digital can't be beat. Greg Elems Reno, NV
Speaking of slide film...I use to almost exclusively shoot K64...I noticed from our fellow Trainboarders...there are different types available then when first started shooting over 20 yrs ago ...if you shoot slide film, what do you use?
I got a canon A1, 24mm, 35mm, 35mm TS, 50mm f/1.4, 85mm, 135mm, 100-500mm f/5.6-8, 2x teleconverter. I think I forgot something.
For the last three years I have been using a Yashica 120, 35mm camera. Although I will continue to use it for some situations, as of this week, I joined the ranks of digital photographers. I picked up my new Nikon Coolpix 995 on Tuesday and am now putting it through some tests to help me get acquainted with it.
Fuji Astia and Velvia! Still haven't tested the Provia line yet... Save that for later this summer, I think.
Bronica ETRSi (usually colour slides but also have a Polaroid back), Ensign Selfix folding 120 roll film camera, Canon Digtal Ixus V, Panasonic mini-dv video camera and one of those beautiful Polaroid collapsible ttl cameras from the 1970s which are collectable nowadays (must be getting very old and losing a lot of brain cells, as can't remember what they are called!). Hardly ever shoot 35mm but have a couple of VERY old Leicas if I want to. Ben
WOW Ben, you have a wide range of gear...I believe the name of the Polaroid in the U.S. at least was called SX-70. Mike
6 year old 35mm Yashica FX-3 with Vivitar Zoom lens: 28-70mm rage 1:3.5-4.5 It's not as fancy as most of everyone's gear, but It can do just as good as anyones!
