(film) camera suggestion
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- vaxorcist0
I inherited my dad's Canonet GL-17 III, very nice.... rangefinder 40mm F1.7 lens, shutter priority, but it used batteries that are hard to fnid.. that said it worked fine in manual.... I loved rangefinders, most people don't.... I also had a Konica S2, 45mm F2.0 with better bokeh, but larger camera body...
- jonny_quest_lives0
I've been playing with this little fella. 45mm f1.9 lens. The lens is sharpest between f4 and 5.6. It's jokingly referred to as the poor man's Leica. I love it and so many were made you can get them for between $20-$40 This is the original model with the film advance on the bottom. I think these are classier but much harder to find seeing as it came out in 1961.
- It's the Canon Canonet apologies for not putting that in the description.jonny_quest_lives
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- Mr_Fantastic0
get a Tessina
http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/…
Small enough that it can be worn as a wrist watch. The lens is only 25mm but it's f 2.8 (!). In my opinion all the cameras shown so far in this thread lack a certain feel of sophistication worthy of shooting film. This camera is pure class.
- bigtrick0
sherm - compact. not slr. compact.
- bigtrick0
sherm, find me a 35mm compact with an 85mm lens sporting a decent aperture (f5 or better would be ideal), and i will send you a print and a piece of raisin toast in the mail.
- sherm0
you want nothing other than an 85mm lens on that thing. 50mm is ok but not ideal in my opinion... less is obviously more wide... and wider than 85mm is just shit for portraits...
- bigtrick0
http://www.canon.com/camera-muse…
a good resource, should anyone need to find specs to old canon cameras.
(i realize this is of limited interest)
canon sure shot tele, 40mm f/2.8 and 70mm f/4.9:
- TenaciousG0
He's asking for a pocket 35mm with a long lens so he can take "authentic" stalker pictures. It's the new hipster voyeur porno...
- yes, and a film camera too?!?!?! like the 80's paparazzi eh?vaxorcist
- Atkinson0
@bigtrick, I know - just saying, you have the best of what's available so stop the search! With a better zoom will come a weaker lens. Decent film / processing and scanning you can crop the image to achieve a better zoom than a zoom lens.
Also, pull out a compact 35mm with a long zoom and people will think you're wielding a dildo. I'm not into that look.
- vaxorcist0
I once had a strange,rare ricoh AF film compact with a nice zoom, very little shutter lag.... almost like the FF70 but not quite, loved it.
Nikon had some nice small compacts with F7.7 or so zooms at the long end.... much more contrasty lenses than usual for that vintage when I worked in a 1 hour lab in the 90's.... most of them used expensive batteries though...
Canon's Z115 was pretty good if I remember right.....
also try:
http://cgi.ebay.com/RICOH-SHOTMA…- the nikon zoom point and shoots had more shutter/AF lag than the Ricoh I had thoughvaxorcist
- Atkinson0
Mju2, forget the zoom
LCA/+ isn't great really. Interesting images but not too sharp.
Richohs generally aren't 'pocket' sized
The MJU series were the smallest compact film cameras with one of the best lenses.- already have the mju ii - in original post i stated that i have a stylus epic (same thing) (:bigtrick
- Atkinson0
I found a Ricoh ff70 the other day, not used it yet though