I had 2-3 different Minox 35 GT 35mm cameras many years ago. Many. I don’t know if it was the proper technical term, but I always thought it had a zone focus system. Depending on amount of light available, I set f/ to /5.6, 8/, or 1/11, usually used an ISO64 film, sometimes ISO200. Auto exposure.
One handed, I could pull the camera from my pocket or handlebar bag or from the carabiner on my gear sling (rock climbing), open the flap-down lens cover, adjust the focus zone to some approximate point on the dial (2…3…5…10m...Infinity), look through the uncoupled viewfinder to compose, shoot a frame or two, close the cover, return the camera to pocket… Wonderfully simple to use, produced good results. Then I got more serious about SLRs and longer lenses, etc. Today I do have a Ricoh GRiii which has many of the same characteristics as that Minox, and I usually have it with me even when I am primarily working with one of my real cameras. I can see the appeal of a new film camera of this type. Stan > On Mar 4, 2024, at 5:16 AM, Ralf R Radermacher <p...@uebra.de> wrote: > > Am 04.03.24 um 10:53 schrieb Bob W PDML: >> Making the camera square would do away with that. In fact using a square >> negative 24x24 would give you 54 frames per roll. > > But it wouldn't look like what those youngsters expect a film camera to look > like. > >> In the video he talks about using zone focusing on the camera. > > The only times I ever see this term is when people describe the way the > Horizon panoramic camera is focussed or rather isn't. It has no focussing > control. Instead it's fix-focussed somehere mid-distance between here and > infinity and you have to stop down to get whatever you want to be sharp into > focus. > > Ralf > > -- > > Ralf R. Radermacher - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog :http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio :http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Fotos :https://www.fotocommunity.de/user_photos/770012 > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
