No. EDIT: At the insistence of my manager and colleagues, I will list some reasons. It’s too heavy. It’s too loud. It’s not pretty. The lenses are amazing, but not worth the sacrifice you have to make to be able to shoot them. They’re very unreliable.
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A few months ago I finally got my own Rolleiflex 2.8, the “C” model. It’s not one of the more fluid ones to use (I say this because often the faster 1/500 shutter speed springs on Rolleiflex’s can be stiff), but it is one of the less common and it is in great shape. I…
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Reticulation! So in the March 2022 newsletter I expounded upon my bad luck shooting plastic cameras…and my latest reticulation “adventure.” I had two rolls of the offending garage stored Agfa APX 400 and recently I developed the second roll, which was shot in my Leica IIIF / Voigtlander 35mm f2.8. It too was heavily reticulated,…
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In the 1960s, the camera market was evolving at a rapid pace. The introduction of the Nikon F in 1959 had ushered in a new era of proffesional cameras with the single lens reflex (SLR) cameras, to challenge the place of the rangefinder. This, as you can imagine, was a bit problematic for the Germans,…
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The Pentax K1000 has become well known over the past three decades as one of the best cameras for people looking to get started in photography. This is mainly due to how simple it is to operate. There are no frills when it come to features. The K1000 was introduced in 1976 as the basic,…
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Let’s face it, film photography is becoming a luxury these days. Much like horses and golf, and soon to be combustion engine automobiles, what started out as a tool for the masses has become a rare inconvenience only the privileged are doomed to enjoy. This is exacerbated by the rising costs associated with it. It’s…
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NOTE: The opinions expressed in this article may not be representative of Beau Photo Supplies and its affiliates. The Nikon F. Ah, the Nikon F. The gran-daddy of it all. Much has been said about this camera. It wasn’t the first SLR (the Kine-Exakta was ), but it was the first that was actually…
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