Cost him a fortune a couple of years ago, now it's not worth a carrot. That's progress for you.
Sigh...
I've been doing some 'de-cluttering' and have found my old 35mm cameras - a Minox 35GL and an Olympus IS-1. Both were quite expensive
cameras in their time, but the few that are on ebay for peanuts aren't even attracting any bids.
I fully understand why - even I wouldn't buy them now as my digital cameras are so much more usable - but it is depressing to see good kit going
down the pan. I just can't bring myself to chuck them... it seems sinful, especially the Olympus 'cos that was a top-line piece of kit in
its time. Mind you, I found it 'king heavy to lug around on holidays...
Anyone else in the same situation?
I had as IS-1, fantastic bit of kit, spare lenses, telephoto, filters etc. Probably sitting in its case in the loft of my parents house. As you say, real shame to get rid of......
Yup, I gave an Olympus OM1 away to a mates son who fancied doing some 'real' photography, its cost my mate a fortune in film and processing, but it is getting used, the kid is even trying to get into processing....
Yup. I have an OM2SP with all the kit just in a box somewhere. It's as old and as much use as a flint axe in technological terms.
As you say its a shame in a way. I put a film through my Nixon f5 last month. It reminded me of why i bought it. When digital was even dearer.
Two Pentax ME Supers with lenes.
Bronica medium format 645 ETRS camera with lenses. I tend to still try Black and white through them every now and then.
May be collectors pieces one day!
Adrian
I found a gadget bag in my eldest's garage last week, all dusty and covered in crud. When I got it from under his bech and opened it......an
almost new Pentax Cost him a fortune a couple of years ago, now it's not worth a carrot.
That's progress for you.
I just wish I had a 1930's Leica rangefinder camera sitting in my drawer... have you seen the prices they make!
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Nikon FM2 35mm and Mamiya 645 don't use either much anymore but they're so much better
made than this new fangled digital stuff.
Give it a few years until it's all retro and cool again
At least 35 cameras in my collection, Linhof 5"x4" & 6cm x 7cm loads of Kodaks, Voiklander and many other old school stuff, brakes my
heart that it's so much cost and effort to use, the quality of a 5x4 transparency has to be seen to be believed. The loss of skills needed to use
camera lens & film plane movements on a technical baseboard camera is to be lamented.
Wiki Scheimpflug if you are as anal as me.
In true LCB style, perhaps you could build an "electronic film" solution.
Ideally you would not have to change anything on the camera, so battery and CPU would live in the space originally used by the film (just like film).
No way of looking at photos once taken (just like film). The CCD could integrate over the whole exposure time so that is easy.
It would function exactly as the old film version did. No new fangled tricks. When you want to get at the images then you open the back and plug in
a USB connector so all the cost benefits of digital.
I like the idea of having this backwardly compatible (i.e. don't need to modify camera). Problems:
You would have to find someway to put the CCD into "acquire" mode, to avoid supershort battery life.
I don't think that you can get CCD thin enough so the back of the camera might need changing (otherwise the focal plane is all wrong).
Atmel AT71200M Color CCD is 8M pixels and 35mm format, and there are loads of small and powerful AVR/PIC computers easily available.
I am surprised there isn't a product out there already, but I can't find it, probably too expensive ( a perfect LCB mission ).
Matt
I sold my Dad's old 35mm gear last year; got peanuts for it.
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Originally posted by matt_gsxr
In true LCB style, perhaps you could build an "electronic film" solution.
Ideally you would not have to change anything on the camera, so battery and CPU would live in the space originally used by the film (just like film). No way of looking at photos once taken (just like film). The CCD could integrate over the whole exposure time so that is easy.
quote:
Originally posted by matt_gsxr
In true LCB style, perhaps you could build an "electronic film" solution.
Ideally you would not have to change anything on the camera, so battery and CPU would live in the space originally used by the film (just like film). No way of looking at photos once taken (just like film). The CCD could integrate over the whole exposure time so that is easy.
quote:
Originally posted by r1_pete
Yup, I gave an Olympus OM1 away to a mates son who fancied doing some 'real' photography, its cost my mate a fortune in film and processing, but it is getting used, the kid is even trying to get into processing....
