tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post7664573494240415147..comments2024-03-28T13:57:27.683-04:00Comments on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I : Makes Me Want to Cry; Shutterbuggery Ed.Comrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-146956087970444052017-11-27T18:31:29.374-05:002017-11-27T18:31:29.374-05:00Aawww...Aawww...Deadstickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06484321108126882385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-3225036935630008672017-11-26T09:32:46.160-05:002017-11-26T09:32:46.160-05:00When I was a kid, I wanted a good camera. My dad ...When I was a kid, I wanted a good camera. My dad told me that he knew a guy who ran a camera store and that he could get me a Canon FT for $130. <br /><br />I did whatever I could to get that money. Babysat for bratty kids that I would have rather drowned. Did yardwork. Shoveled sidewalks. Finally, I gave Dad the money and, a couple of weeks later, I had the camera. I used it afloat and ashore. I contributed to a warship's cruisebook. I shot publicity photos for my high school theatre company. I freelanced for my local paper.<br /><br />I used it for almost 20 years, when the shutter broke. The repair cost was equivalent to a new camera. The telephoto that I had was not compatible with any current Canon, so I got a Nikon FM2. I still have that camera, but it's been mostly idle for a dozen years (batteries out).<br /><br />Kodak prepaid processing mailers and Mystic Photo Lab were my friends. :)<br /><br />Over a dozen years after Dad passed away, I was helping my mom downsize for a move. I went through some papers in an old fireproof box and found the camera store receipt for that Canon. It cost $260, including tax. In all the decades since I had gotten the camera, Dad never once mentioned that he had paid half the cost of it.Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-69548875755941127312017-11-25T23:58:26.689-05:002017-11-25T23:58:26.689-05:00Oh, this all brings back memories. When I was a hi...Oh, this all brings back memories. When I was a high school kid, my father, knowing I was interested in photography, and knowing little about the direction of my interests, bought me a Leica IIIF while he and my mom were on vacation in Europe. This was a rangefinder camera, not a SLR, which is what I wanted, but it was a better camera than I could afford on my own when I was an adolescent.. Then, in college, I started taking jobs on small town newspapers. The photographers yelled at me when I tried to give them 35mm film. "What the hell am I supposed to do with this? I don't even hav e a developing tank for it!"<br /><br />So I went to a huge camera store and swapped my Leica IIIF for a Speed Graphic, a big, clunky, heavy thing with a bellows and a giant flashgun that let you take pix on 4X5 film stuck into frames. You turned in your frame — or whatever the hell it was called — to the newspaper darkroom. They printed the picture while the negative was still wet, and an hour later they went to press with it.<br /><br />My father, who loved tiny things — Omega watches the thickness of a quarter, the tiny camera that made almost no noise when the shutter was released, small allowances — went ballistic that I had turned in a gem of a camera for the photographer's equivalent of a pickup truck. He didn't speak to me for a month.<br /><br />He died in 1967. Wherever he is now, I'll bet he's still pissed off about the camera.<br /><br />Yours crankily,<br />The New York Crank<br />The New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-49755111943455578172017-11-25T20:30:13.506-05:002017-11-25T20:30:13.506-05:00I have a Canon 5DS R, 50 megapixels
http://tinyurl...I have a Canon 5DS R, 50 megapixels<br />http://tinyurl.com/sdean-supersharp<br />I've been photographing for 58 years (Nikon SP, F & Nikkormat, Olympus OM-1) and have never had a camera that came close to its ability to bring back people photography at the drop of a hat. Particularly appreciative of its low-light sensitivity (haven't used flash since the late '60's) and the image-stabilization, which allows be to use a 70-300 zoom at a 1/15 of a second as a low-light portrait lense. And folks, the autofocus effing works.<br />But my love, could I afford the film and processing, is my 8x10 large format. With a Schneider Symmar 300mm normal lense, Angulon 180mm and Super Angulon 120mm wide angles and a gorgeous Nikkor telephoto with interchangeable rear elements: 600/800/1200mm on a Sinar F. With Fujichrome, $25/shot for a sheet of film and development. Then $250 for digital scanning and another $800 for a 4'x5' wet darkroom print.<br />Like this: <br />http://imagovitae.org/images/COLandscapeGallery1K_GIFs/FinalJPEG/5B_Stewart-Dean_May-11_%235-Final-1KDove.jpgStewart Deanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06830186006689502072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-16248802463029313442017-11-25T19:18:50.845-05:002017-11-25T19:18:50.845-05:00My old Pentax K-1000 had a battery for the light m...My old Pentax K-1000 had a battery for the light meter (only). Damned battery lasted forever.<br /><br />Man, I loved that camera. Took some great pictures with it. But the new Sony digital is *so* convenient. Makes me a bit ashamed of myself.Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-64144665488736657262017-11-25T17:24:11.049-05:002017-11-25T17:24:11.049-05:00Is the lens obsolete? Is it not compatible wth the...Is the lens obsolete? Is it not compatible wth the modern digital SLR's? B https://www.blogger.com/profile/10586046436233366155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-15774112604148443352017-11-25T12:01:05.227-05:002017-11-25T12:01:05.227-05:00Have used Canons since the FT ...... I remember th...Have used Canons since the FT ...... I remember the saying that "the cheapest thing in your gadget bag is film."<br />The other rumor from the day was that Kodak subsidized the manufacture and marketing of motor drives.bearsensehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12000858896207125033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-60250111314404799282017-11-24T20:46:11.454-05:002017-11-24T20:46:11.454-05:00Good grief...I had an AE-1 back in the 80’s and 90...Good grief...I had an AE-1 back in the 80’s and 90’s. Wonderful camera, had a 28-40mm, a 45mm and an 85-200mm, as I remember it. Never acquired the skill to use it properly, “sold” it to a young photography student, who hopefully did it justice.CenterPuke88https://www.blogger.com/profile/17770056621255249861noreply@blogger.com