I have a number of new toys for my photography fun. While in Las Vegas recently I visited some pawn shops for fun, and managed to find a Canon Elan 7E in great shape for cheap. Figuring it was time to experiment with film I picked it up. While no train photos yet, I've run four rolls through it of Pug pictures and it takes a great shot. Next time I take train photos I'm going to do some with film to compare my film and digital prowess. I also finally sprung for a good wireless mike for my video camera. I've been slowly doing some video clips, and I think I'm going to do more. I have a grand plan for a sort of video blog, we'll see if I ever get there. Video just takes too much time.
That's great news, Leo. I have not done film in a long time.... I guess I should put my Canon A2E on eBay... Harold
I still like film, especially now that I have a good scanner, the Epson 4990 Photo. I rescanned some photos of my previous layout and compared them with the scans done professionally on a $40,000 drum scanner. The new scans were better! I've got two Nikon digitals and two Nikon film cameras. Those old manual Nikon prime lenses are still tough to beat.
Any prime lens is hard to beat... Many pro's use only primes, as even quality zooms have small flaws that high-tech cameras like the Canon EOS 1Ds magnifies.. Any camera with a full-frame sensor will likely show the difference between a good prime and a good zoom..
As will most cameras with a less than full frame sensor! I've been a little leery of trying out the old prime lenses on the new digital bodies. They'll mount OK, but I've read they might screw up the electronics. Something about shorting out the contacts on the body. Maybe just a wife's tale. I'm pretty happy with the zooms I have. Buth then I go digital camera to digital printing. That is hard to beat.
On the Canon line there's no issue with primes. I only own a 50mm prime, so I use it rarely, but it works like a champ on my Digital Rebel. I often use it indoors in low light because even though I can't frame right the f/1.4 allows me to get a shot (with ISO1600) that I could never get with a f/4.5 zoom. EF primes should work just dandy on any EF body, including digital.
Pete, they are old wives' tales. You should always turn off your body before changing lenses as the manual recommends. Once off, there's nothing to short. You can use your old Nikon AIS lenses but you will lose all the auto function on it. Basically they become a "manual" lens and you have to set shutter speed and aperture.
Just like we used to do it! The Nikon 50mm f1.4 was the first computer-designed lens, and still hard to beat. I wish I still had the 135mm f1.5 that I used for sports photography. But I sold it in 1980 during my divorce. What a hunk of glass!
I don't have it any longer. It weighed about 8 pounds. I'm guessing it was at least six inches across. It was a monster! I haven't see one in ages! It was $1500 in 1970.
I'm sorry--it was probably a Vivitar lens introduced in 1968, which is the correct time frame. It was a T-mount, so I probably bought the Nikon converter at the same time. I've searched through Nikon history and haven't found a 135mm f 1.5. This Vivitar had a filter size of 92mm. Memory fails after a while. I still remember it as a Nikon, though.
I'm going to try and take some film pictures this weekend, and get a CD with development to share images. If I have the time I'll take 300D (digital rebel) images with the same lense from the same location to compare. Film is better at some things and worse at others. Time to process is a big factor.
