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See my point now?
What? Nikons are big? I know, that's why I didn't buy one 🙂
Trumped by catalogue boy, eh Elfin?
I think not, actually....
Hmm, research shows that that's a titanium [i]finish[/i], rather than actual titanium metal. Indeed, it's price suggests it's probbly not real Ti. Because it would cost a lot more.
So I still win.
Right, Mol(lost to his wife at Scrabble)grips; find me a digital cam, the size and robustness of an FM2, that doesn't cost a fortune.
Of you go!
It is rather nice tho 🙂
My old DSLR was (and still is) a Pentax manual focus. When I got a digital (compact effectively) in 2000 I kept it for those special photography outings.
I never used it again. Actually, I never used it through choice again. I broke my compact, and had to take it on a holiday and realised what a right ballache film actually was. Something wrong with the focusing or alignment or something, resulting in most of the landscape photos (at inifinity) of that trip being slightly out of focus. I only found out a week after I'd got home.
Anyone want it?
I dunno about cost Elf - I never said digital was cheaper than film. I just said that it was better 🙂
Yes please! It can be my prize for win. 😀
Love old cams, me.
Really? It's not especially old, 1999 really, and it's a basic model. Won't be the quality of your current one.
Which one is it?
I've got an old Pentax K1000; the student's special. Now that really is indestructible.
This is an Epson RD1-x. A digital rangefinder cam, with essentially just manual controls (and a little AE setting). Lovely. Leica do something similar.
Why can't Nikon do something like that, but an SLR? Is it too much to ask?
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Ooh, I found it 🙂
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It's very plain, but it is indeed very very light. Mine's also MINT condition too - the infinity focus thing notwithstanding. Not really got to the bottom of that, might've been me doing something wrong not sure.
Looks like it could be worth £55 🙂
It replaced the camera my dad had that he passed on to me, but that got pinched in a burglary. That was a sad day.. that camera had documented my childhood. Although it was a cheapo Chinon thing, it was a thing of awe to my 8 year old self when my dad bought it.
Why can't Nikon do something like that, but an SLR? Is it too much to ask?
You know that the scene modes and crap are just software, that cost virtually nothing to add, right? And you are also aware that Nikon et al want to sell cameras, and that romantic minimalists like you are in the minority...
that cost virtually nothing to add, right?
but think of the mental cost to Elfin's tortured brain 🙁
You can donate it to the Elfintography museum of old cams..
Leica M9:
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Leica M7:
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Not a great deal of difference, other than the fact that one uses film, the other is digital.
That's what I want Nikon to do.
but think of the mental cost to Elfin's tortured brain
It's a very, very high cost. As youser discovering.
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One film from 1966, one digital from 2009 🙂
PS why Nikon?
Nice. I like the current trend of doing simple yet quality compacts, I just wish Nikon would do an SLR in that same style.
When it were film, you could buy an FM2, or an F3/4/5 etc, and they'd be of a similar quality. Sadly, the lower end models suffer from basic build quality, and an overabundance of idiot modes. Plastic lens mounts ffs.
Why Nikon?
Cos I've got Nikon gear. Perfectly good kit, that I want to keep using. FX full frame sensor is the important bit, to retain original lens focal lengths.
Oh well. 🙁
Maybe it's a Nikon thing. Olympus seem to be good at the lower end. I certainly don't have a plastic lens mount!
As for idiot modes - I've got three art filters that I can ignore, the rest is normal.
You really want that Pentax btw?
Titanium, you say?
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuartie_c/5106053912/ ]Oly OM4-Ti[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/stuartie_c/ ]stuartie_c[/url], on Flickr
Interesing DOF in that shot, are you being creative? 😉
Creative?!
No way man! My eyes are just not working as they should be. Not swivelly enough, or something.
Sadly, the lower end models suffer from basic build quality, and an overabundance of idiot modes. Plastic lens mounts ffs.
Plastic where?
My D80 "enthusiast level" body doesn't have a plastic mount.
In fact looking at the cheapest entry level D3100:
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I'm not sure if that is plastic or not. Looks pretty metallic but I've not seen one in the flesh so I don't know.
No way man! My eyes are just not working as they should be. Not swivelly enough, or something.
😆 ROFL 😆