Tag: film cameras
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How 25 cents changed my life
The story of how I got into collecting and using old film cameras.
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Go ahead and use alkaline or silver-oxide batteries in your old film cameras that were designed for mercury batteries
If the battery fits your camera, use it, I say.
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Nikon FA
The Nikon FA was the most technologically advanced 35mm SLR Nikon ever made upon its 1983 release. Here’s my review of this camera.
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Film cameras in use
Film cameras photographed with a camera phone.
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The joy of photographing
I’ve started sorting through this year’s photographs to find my ten favorite. I do this every year for a post just before the new year. See my past annual posts here. I made more images this year than in any year before. But a lower percentage of them were good. In 2020 I have used…
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Making film photography less expensive
My best tips for saving money in film photography.
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Saluting the original film-camera reviewers of the Internet
I’ve reviewed film cameras on my blog for going on 13 years. Here are the sites I used in the beginning to research my cameras — the OG film-camera reviewers of the Internet!
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What’s the best film camera to start with?
Want to break into film photography but don’t know how to start? Here is my recommendation — easy, fun, inexpensive.
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Using Sunny 16 to check your camera’s meter
Are you wondering whether the meter in your old camera is (still) accurate? You can do a quick sanity check using the Sunny 16 rule.
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Nikon EM
My review of Nikon’s smallest, lightest manual-focus SLR, the EM.
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Nearing the end of Operation Thin the Herd
My project to whittle my herd of cameras down to just my favorites is nearing its end.
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Operation Thin the Herd: Canon Canonet QL17 G-III
I had my Canonet QL17 G-III CLA’d just so I could evaluate it in Operation Thin the Herd.