Tag: Fujifilm Fujicolor 200
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Kodak Pony 135 Model C
The short of this review: the Pony 135 Model C is a delightful viewfinder camera and the best of the entire Pony line.
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Nikon F2A
I now own one of the finest 35mm SLRs of all time and I’m dying to tell you about it. I’m going to try really hard not to gush. A classic Nikon SLR has been on my want list for a long time, but they’re mighty expensive. I could see that to own one, I’d…
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Nikon N60
When a buddy of mine said I could have his Nikon N60 for $20 (and if I met him for lunch and paid), I said yes. It wasn’t because I’ve always dreamed of owning an N60 – I’m more into old-style, all-metal, all-manual film SLRs, and the N60 is a modern, plastic, auto-everything SLR. No,…
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State Road 45
One of my favorite drives in Indiana is State Road 45 between Beanblossom and Bloomington. It’s a twisty little marvel that cuts through the Yellowwood State Forest. I first drove it in 2006 (story here), just after my inner roadgeek awakened. I hadn’t been back since. It was time to correct this grievous error. Near…
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Canon FT QL
Most of my old SLRs are from the 1970s and early 1980s and, as such, offer full through-the-lens metering and often aperture-priority autoexposure. I wanted to get grittier, more elemental, more raw. So I started scanning the auctions for SLRs from the 1960s. Not only are these beasts bigger and heavier than those that came…
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Minolta XG 1
Competition among SLR manufacturers heated up during the 1970s as use of electronics increased and body size decreased. Minolta’s XG series was their way of competing against Olympus’s OM series and Pentax’s M cameras. I bought one because I had two Minolta X-700s in a row that failed, but I wanted a body lighter than…
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Captured: Flags flying furiously
I was in South Bend a few summers ago with my Canonet QL17 G-III, wandering around downtown looking for things to photograph. You can’t get any more downtown in South Bend than the intersection of Michigan and Washington Streets, where I took this photo; that’s geographic zero in my hometown. All building and house numbers…
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Canon A35F
This is the last of the Canonets. Don’t let it bother you that the Canonet name is nowhere to be found on this camera. It’s a Canonet, all right, made in 1978 but based on the 1971 Canonet 28. The two cameras share a 40mm f/2.8 lens, of five elements in four groups. Like the 28,…
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Canon AE-1 Program
I’ve owned two Canon AE-1 Programs over the years, one I bought for just $30 and another that was given to me. I’d been on the hunt for its predecessor, the Canon AE-1, but never found one at a price I was willing to pay. The 1976 AE-1 was the first SLR to be controlled…
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Konica C35 Automatic
Ever since I started collecting cameras again, a Konica C35 has been on my must-buy list. Everybody seems to really like this little autoexposure rangefinder 35mm camera. When I went shopping for one I found a Konica C35 Automatic, a 1971 successor to the original 1968 C35. Because the C35 is popular, it often sells…
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Canon Dial 35-2
Hate. Is that too strong a word? I think I hated using my Canon Dial 35-2. Everything about this camera’s function is nonstandard. I had to puzzle over the manual to begin to know what to do, and even then I struggled. For example, to change the shutter speed on this shutter-priority autoexposure camera, I…
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Nikon N65
A review of Nikon’s N65, a fully automatic 35mm SLR. It’s a completely adequate film camera.