Do you have a favourite camera? If so, what is it? Why is it your favourite? I want to hear!I'll start, I think for me it's a Nikon FM. I like it because it's always worked for me, I know how to fix it when something goes wrong, it's well made and it has a CdS meter. Lenses are easy to find, as are batteries. I got it for very cheap and it was already quite banged up so I never feel I have to be overly careful with it, which makes it an easy choice to bring with me.>pic semi-related, my third favourite camera
>>4508801i dont like camerasthey are the greatest enemy of photographycameras ruined photography desuwe were better off with just a lens on a box and covering it with our hand to end the exposure
>>4508802>we were better off with just a lens on a box and covering it with our hand to end the exposureIs this not also a camera?
>>4508802Based. A lens cap works better than your hand tho.
>>4508802Goddamn gearfaggots obsessing over silver nitrate purity. Inhaling their toxic dust. Endless posting on their plates but no talent.Just focus on composition.
>>4508822There's no dust in the wetplate process, platelet. Only the sweet, sweet fumes of ether and toxic bromides.
>>4508802When are you professional hobbyists planning to get off your high horse and stop pretending you can take photos without a camera. If it’s that much of an issue for you, sell your camera and use your phone. We know you wont.
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35mm - canon 1vMedium format - hy6 or technical cameras like the graflex xlswLarget format- Sinar PSmaller formats are the easiest to use and have auto everything, and technical cameras are just fun to use.Large format because it has the most technical capabilities out of almost any camera ever made.
>>4508845Took the rewind knob off one these and put it on my zenit as a replacement part
>>4508845yuck no thanks
M42 mount, electronically controlled shutter and uses batteries you can find today
currently bessa r2m i have an r2
>>4508896I've always wanted the one with the wide angle frame lines, the r4 I think it is? Pretty cool.
>>4508937yeah the r4m and r4a are the wide angle bodies. i'll get one someday... i wish cosina would produce again. the one flaw on these things is that the strap lug is too far forward, so the balance is off and causes the camera to tilt lens-up all the time. attaching a flash causes the camera to flip all the way over. if they just fixed that, it'd be a perfect platform
>>4509254Meh I dont think that would bother me. I only ever use a wrist strap
>>4509255one other outcome of the awkward lug placement is that when suspending the camera from one end of the strap, the strap ring puts a lot of pressure on an edge of the lug. metal dust began to accumulate near the lug over months of wear from this pressureanyways, it's still a good system, especially given the breadth of solid lenses for the mount. if you're in the us, once tariffs are lifted, it'll be a good pickup
Analog? The Praktica MTL3, shit just works. And I love the sound of the shutter.Digital? The Pentax K50, it uses AA batteries and love the colors, so much SOUL
>that I still ownX-Pro2, M10-M>that I used to ownF100, Mju II Limited>>4508896very jealous, always wanted an R2M, CV is my favorite brand
>>4509297Ive always wanted the VLC3 but they dont come up for sale often. As far as I understand its basically the MTL3 but with a interchangeable viewfinder.
>>4509299F100 is cool. I really love the F80. It's one of the only 'professional' level SLRs with a pop up flash. >>4509256Lovely shot. Portra?>>4508895You know you never hear much about these. I see a decent few people shooting with Yashica Electros and Ministers but never the SLRs.
>compact and lightweight>huge ass screen>no evf, which I never use >great built quality>incredible R3D video files>great for photos too>raw files easy to color gradeBasically solved my GAS
>>4509303One NiCoin has been deposited into your wallet. Thank you sir. -Prikdip Rajthajalahaman, Nikon Global Marketing Solutions shift supervisor
>>4509303>Purchasing something solved my gasAside from how retarded that sounds, I'd like to let you know that your ad sounds remarkably inauthentic.
The camera I use the most is definitely my om2n, it gets exposures right basically every time and it's nice to use. But I really enjoyed the 90s plastic space magic of a friend's N55 the time I borrowed it
>>4509302>Lovely shot. Portra?thanks. no, it's fuji 200 from last year. which i've had some mixed results with. maybe something about my processing is making it inconsistent in color and dynamic range
>>4509336Meh I feel like a lot of the consumer colour films just have weird colours sometimes. I find portra to be extremely consistent though. >picrel, portra 400, nikon fm + AI 55mm f/1.2
leica m3>but it doesnt have....you're point?>but le 28mmyou don't need it>but le auto exposureyou don't need it>but le 1/10000000 shutter speedyou don't need itthe leica m3 is the perfect photography machine with the best selection of the best 50mm lenses that has ever existed and will ever exist
>>4509370Probably my favourite leica. I never liked the canted rewind knob on later models. Personally however the Canon P has better serviceability and a film door, so I prefer that.
>>4508801Still the camera I shoot with the most.
>>4509518I really wish these had a popup flash so there was a reason to choose them over the F5 or the F80. The matrix metering is really good. You dont even have to fuck around metering for shadows it just knows.
>>4509370leica men are always tinged by an insistence that their signals talent. many such cases even with poorer folk. truly money can’t improve the man.
>>4508801I get all my cameras from my garbage dump job. My favourites is my fujifilm cool pix and my olympus mu2, but that one got something funny going on in the lense that makes it have a weird glare on the bottom of each pic. It looks cool though.
>>4509341personally i never saw the value for myself to shoot portra on 35mm. i use portra on 120, when i'm shooting slow. but i use 35mm for street and quick shots so i stick to cheap stocks. i've been going with kodacolor 100 lately and i'm quite pleased. i find it far more consistent than fuji 200. kodacolor 100 is $9 per roll for me so it's a nobrainer as my default now>>4509370meh if i was going to buy a film leica that wasn't an m6, i'd just get a m4-p and have 28mm framelines and a rewind lever.
>>4508801I fucking love the Zenit B. It's endearing in the same way a shitbox car is.Mine just works for some reason, no idea why mine seems immune to usual Zenit QC. I love carrying that ungainly Soviet brick around, I've got a Zenit E and Prinzflex 500 now just as spares for it, cost me about £2 for the Zenit E and the Prinzflex was £5 but came with a Helios 44-2.Also Praktica TL1000. Extremely cheap and has only let me down once when I messed up loading.
>>4510456>no idea why mine seems immune to usual Zenit QCI think the earlier ones are generally a little better. But I have a zenit 12 and I quite like it. I've done some repairs on it, so now it has the rewind lever and shaft from an uhhhh spotmatic I think it was... The only thing that kinda sucks about them is the horrible finder coverage
>>4510463Funnily enough my only Zenit which broke was my 12S (the mounts for the strap are really weak, be careful putting any weight on them). I've heard earlier ones are better, I mean Che got caught with a Zenit 3M so I guess if it was good enough for guerilla warfare in South America it's good enough for me.They're endearing bricks.
Canon 5D Classic, the white mans camera.
>>4511294A great choice. This was my first 35mm format digital camera and I still own it. It's a lovely and unique camera, from a time where it wasn't necessarily a given that everyone purchasing one would know how to edit photos. As such it produces RAWs that are pretty much ready to use. The colours are lovely too. Handles reds in a way that people coming from film were refreshed by.
>>4508801My favorite camera is my first camera, the Canon FTb that my Grandfather gave me. I rarely use it now, but every time I pick it up and focus that smooth FD prime through that microprism, and line up that little ring with the light meter needle, I feel happy. And that's the whole point of a hobby, to make you happy. Pic related, looks just like my FTb but isn't mine.
I like my Konica C35 Automatic the best out of my cameras. Everything about it just says yup that's camera. It's pretty, the thumbwinder feels nice, there's a magical hot shoe, the rangefinder works although it could be larger and brighter. The size and weight are just perfect, it's pocketable. It cost me like 15 eurobucks because the light meter was broken but I fixed it myself by just fiddling with the battery contacts.I'm currently going through my first roll of film with Olympus XA2, if the pictures come out nice then it's probably a contender too.
