Re: What'd you guys grow up on?

On 2007-11-01 10:06:37 -0700, RichA <rander3127@xxxxxxxxx> said:


ajamess@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
This thread is for talking about the inverse of what most of the
traffic of the forum is devoted to: that POS that you started on.
What? You started on a D2*/IDMk*? GTFO. For all the rest of you,
what was it? Camera body, lens, film, and some thoughts about it.

I started a couple of years ago on some 60 year old Pentax bodies
which consistently over exposed and had a really finicky film loading
system. Mostly shot on an 80-200 f4, if memory serves. 24mm 2.8 went
on on occasion. The lenses were soft, development cost money, but
some of my favorite pictures were shot on it.

I generally used Kodak C41 ISO400 BW. Really nice grain / character
and I didn't have to pay an arm and a leg. *curses tuition*

I loved those things. I've still got one of them, but the exposure
meter is fubared...kinda fun to guess at it, though. Ever used an old
Tamron 300 F5.6 with a crappy 2x? Oh man, it's so bad, it's good!

Any stories you guys have?

Minolta XD-11 for a week. Great camera. Sold it, got an Olympus
OM-1n for the mirror lock up and soft shutter and mirror slap. Used
28, 50, 100mm lenses along with Tamron zooms. Used primarily Ilford
B&W films owing to the poor quality of colour negative films at the
time. Did my own darkroom stuff. Tried Ilford XP-1 on and off,
didn't like it's lack of tonal range on overcast days. Used Tech-Pan
and like it despite the speed. Used hundreds of telescopes as long
lenses, some good some bad.
Recently, bought an old Konica TC SLR to get the 40mm f1.8 lens
attached to it to put on my Olympus E-330 (very similar to the digital
bayonette on the Olympus) found it to be excellent quality. Also
recently shot film and scanned it to compare it to digital.

PS - Please play nice, ITT.

Since so many of us have crossed paths at the Minolta junction, I'm sharing this old (ca. 1999) web page from photo.net. I don't even remember why I originally bookmarked it--may have been the comment about mirror lockup--but J. Greely makes a lot of good points here:
http://photo.net/equipment/minolta/greely/compare
--
Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

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