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01/04/2004 08:40:09 AM · #1 |
I just found the camera that was used to make all my childhood photos in a drawer. It's from 1977 and it still works. I was a bit shocked how it compared to my S602Z 2002 digital. (thumbs down for the 602) :(
It locks focus so freaking fast and has almost no shutter lag.
The viewfinder has .9x enlargement factor and that means that what I see through the viewfinder is almost just as big as I see it in real life. When I look through the 602 and this Agfa back to back it is such a huge difference. The Agfa just shows it all, where I miss a lot of details (because of the small size) with the EVF of the 602 that I only see on the computer when it is too late.
I can change the aperture fast on the lens and set the focus distance with another ring. It can also be set to infinity. The 602 is much slower with its thumb wheel and it does not have distance scales and can not be set to infinity manually.
It has a 40mm F2.8 high quality (judged by the old prints) prime lens on it. I need to clean it and get some new batteries. It is build like a brick (metal), but still very light & small and the film loading is quite advanced.
I think it will be fun to load some B&W film into it. I'd like to see what the extra latitude of B&W brings.
Anyone got some film recommendations for it? It will be primarily used for landscapes, group portraits and perhaps some architecture.
Depending on the availability I am considering Agfapan APX 100 or Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100, but I will not be developing it myself (some films can only be developed by a limited number of labs).
I can't wait to get a decent dSLR by the way, just waiting to see what PMA brings. :) Why don't they build these fixed lens camera's with a 1Ds sensor? :)
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01/04/2004 08:42:43 AM · #2 |
If you want to try b/w film, you might want to start out with some of the Kodak b/w c-41 film that you can get processed in a 1-hr lab. You can get it at most places that sell film like Walmart or your local processing lab.
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01/04/2004 09:15:24 AM · #3 |
I looked at that. The only available Kodak C41 B&W film here is "Black and White+ 400" (I see that that is also the case in the US), but the camera is limited to a 1/500s shutterspeed. Perhaps I should try that, the lens will most often be stopped down anyway, I just feared that I would not get away with wideopen shots.
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01/04/2004 11:07:21 AM · #4 |
i have never used the kodak film mentioned above, which may work well.
but what i used to do was use an illford BW film, and develope the film at home over the sink, ( you only need dark to load the film into the developing canister ) i could then look at the negatives, and bring the ones i wanted printed to a camera shop who could enlarge them for me.
saved me the expense of having rolls of BW developed, and printed.
i also had a makeshift darkroom i built in one of my parents basements. and i had some pretty good luck developing BW prints from color negatives using some enlarger filters, and what not... ( not all negatives produced good results but after a some time i was able to see which would and would'nt print well ).
main reason i don't develope film now a days is for space, time, and expense reasons, but sometimes wish i still had the option readily available....
Message edited by author 2004-01-04 11:08:04. |
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01/04/2004 12:57:40 PM · #5 |
Ilford also makes a C-41 B&W film. I have used it and the Kodak version with success. Our local mini-lab does a pretty good job with it. They have a deal where you only have to pay for the prints you want, so I'll go through them at the counter and usually hand about 2/3 of them back (out of focus, poor exposure or whatever), so costs are low. They are also good about re-printing shots that are too light or too dark.
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01/04/2004 02:30:15 PM · #6 |
Thanks, I'll have a look at Ilford.
I now also know why it focusses so fast. :)
It just doesn't, it's manual focus by distance scale. The only thing it does is metering and tell me when it is ready. I'd have preferred this kind of manual focus over the stupid fly-by-wire completely useless MF of the 602.
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01/04/2004 03:35:10 PM · #7 |
Not sure if this will help, but found an article on 28 B&W Films Compared on the Popular Photography web site.
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01/04/2004 03:52:49 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by jmsetzler:
If you want to try b/w film, you might want to start out with some of the Kodak b/w c-41 film that you can get processed in a 1-hr lab. You can get it at most places that sell film like Walmart or your local processing lab. |
The only thing you might want to watch with this stuff is that it can come out kind of green. Make sure your developer knows you want b&w so they print it right.
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