Jussi Halonen
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Share your all time favourite camera/s. Film, digital, half-frame, medium format, Yashica, Hasselblad... You name it. And please tell us why you chose that/those particular camera/s.
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swee'pea99
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I used to work at Amateur Photographer magazine, and I had the run of the equipment cupboard. I tried out pretty much every make & model, before deciding that my personal favourite was the Nikon FE. Like all Nikons of that era it was exemplary in every technical way, utterly reliable, and built like a tank. The lenses, it goes without saying, were fantastic; everything clicked and chunked and zipped and whirred in an extremely pleasing way; and perhaps most importantly, it was just such a joy to handle: perfectly weighted, perfectly balanced, ergonomically spot on. I tried some good Pentaxes, Canons and Olympuses, but I always came back to the FE.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
I once had an Olympus Trip but it got stolen from my tent at Glastonbury Festival, 1982, along with a whole load of beer 
I had been developing an interest in photography at that point, but I couldn't afford to replace it back then, and my interest sort of dwindled.
These days I'm happy with my mobile phone camera
I had been developing an interest in photography at that point, but I couldn't afford to replace it back then, and my interest sort of dwindled.
These days I'm happy with my mobile phone camera
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Jussi Halonen
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Nikon FE is a legend PERIOD. There is one minus side with the old Nikon cameras, I can't use my stunning new G glass with them.
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Jussi Halonen
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I have been shooting canon for most of the time but still my favourite cameras are all Nikon. The legendary FM2, advanced back in the day f-801, modernized & superb F6 and when it comes to digital cameras the brilliant D4.
swee'pea99
Squire
The Olympus Trip was a mini masterpiece too. I took a close up of a Rolls Royce headlamp cluster in the rain with one once, using FP4, and printed it up to 12" x 16" on olde worlde pre-resin-coated paper. The bloke who ran the photographic society at the university I was at asked me if it had been taken on a large format camera.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
I once had an Olympus Trip but it got stolen from my tent at Glastonbury Festival, 1982, along with a whole load of beer
I had been developing an interest in photography at that point, but I couldn't afford to replace it back then, and my interest sort of dwindled.
These days I'm happy with my mobile phone camera
And the beer?
swee'pea99
Squire
My mobile phone camera sucks. (It's an Orange San Francisco, AKA ZTE Blade, and the image quality is terrible - far worse than the HTC I used to have...and that wasn't exactly good.)
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
I've got over the loss, just about, though I clearly haven't forgotten it
Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
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Jussi Halonen
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Trip is a capable camera indeed.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
I still have an Olympus trip lurking around along with an Olympus OM20. Neither of them have any film through them in the past fifteen or so years.
I had the Olympus Trip given to me as a Christmas bonus one year by MFI when I worked for them. Didn't there used to be a seris of adverts for them with David Bailey?
I had the Olympus Trip given to me as a Christmas bonus one year by MFI when I worked for them. Didn't there used to be a seris of adverts for them with David Bailey?
My 1st "real" camera was a Russian Fed (similar to the Zorky-copy of a Leica). I then moved to the Russian Zenith which was good for the basic price.
When I went into weddings/portraits etc. I had a Minolta 7000i with computerised flash......very advanced for it's time (and very expensive
).
I now use a Canon 7D which I got as its quick focus amkes it good for birds in flight which I enjoy.
When I went into weddings/portraits etc. I had a Minolta 7000i with computerised flash......very advanced for it's time (and very expensive
).I now use a Canon 7D which I got as its quick focus amkes it good for birds in flight which I enjoy.
PocketFrog
Northern Monkey
Fstop - Aperture size. Lower the number the bigger the aperture and the more light is passed to the sensor
Focal Length - The lower the number, the wider the angle.
ISO - Now controls the sensitivity of the sensor to light, the same way that it did with the film speed but can be changed on the fly.
Hope this helps!
