On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 03:54:15PM -0500, coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote:
Ya, ya, I know it?s been done a million times.\ But I wanted to add a comparative twist to it.
What has been your
(a) Favorite 35mm camera\ (b) The sharpest 35mm you ever used\ (c) Why you stuck with Pentax
(a) K1000 - all-manual all the time and it's never let me down. (b) My boring ol' M 50/1.4 (c) I started college with a K1000 my dad bought used. That got stolen while on loan to a friend after college and I didn't really shoot much for a long time, when I did it was with the digital point-and-shoots my employer provided for documenting stuff at work. When my dad passed away in 2011 I kept his K1000 and started shooting film again because I needed something to help maintain my sanity, and I've been shooting it ever since. Occasionally I covet a 67 because I like the 6x7 format (I crop a fair number of my shots to that) and because I've heard such good things about the glass. On the other hand I shoot almost exclusively handheld and it sounds like it really prefers to be on a tripod with the mirror locked up.
For me ?\ (a) Canon G-III QL17. Convenient and sharp. Easy to use.\ (b) Tie: Rollei 35 S (Planar) and Contax T2. But too valuable to hang onto.\ (c) K1000 was 1st SLR. Always enjoyed simplicity + durability. (Same reason
I?ve driven Chevy & Toyota) Ditto on the Toyotas and Chevys. :-) Bruce N. -- Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. (Lily Tomlin) -- %(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.
