Dont buy a Leica or a Voigtlander bessa ;-) , before you’ve seen this
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- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2023
- If you're jumping right into Photography, the 35mm game... please try one of these more obscure brands from back in the day first. Practice the 35mm sunny 16 rule, using a light meter and The Exposure Triangle, dial in your game and enjoy it before you drop $1000+ on a camera body and $1500 on a lens ;-) Yes they're 1000 times better and more accurate but try film shooting first, then advance sensibly !!!
The Graflex Graphic 35mm camera, from 1955 : user manual
www.butkus.org/chinon/graflex...
I have one. a F-3.5 since the early 60's. It was my first sophisticated camera. Did you say it is an SLR(I rechecked, you didn't). It isn't, it is a Rangefinder., but one of the coolest looking Rangefinders, ever. I used the Grahic-35 through my school years and then picked up a Yashica 'Electro- 35' Rangefinder mainly because of the electronic light meter. After that another Rangefinder a Minolta and then a Pentax 'K1000' my first SLR, and so many cameras since then.
I was doing a project in Ballad in 2010 when decided to load some film into the Graphic-35 and go downtown and to the Ballard Locks. The camera got so much attention I didn't get a lot of shots. I later finished the roll on Lake Union during the Duck Dodge a sailboat race. I shot several more B&W rolls later, but haven't picked it up to use in a good 13 years or so. The Graphic-35 has remained on my glass enclosed camera display shelf a long with many other classic cameras from the 50's through the 80's & 90's and still gets a lot of attention.
Cameras and film has been an enduring hobby of mine since I built a Pin-hole camera when I was 8, and started developing my own film when I was eleven. I still shoot the occasional roll of film and on the street, the old 35's still get a lot of attention from other shooters
Thanks for the post. PS! Still shoot film. Check out the new CROWN + FLINT APP . Also The RUclips channel 'Electichrome'.(?)
Ha ! It’s funny you mentioned the attention…. On this photo shoot a family said “hey look, the guy has a **real camera**….” , it did make me think , the perception of camera phones has certainly changed