Please compose yourselves.
 
 

 I think my wife has a Cannon too Mike. Nice cameras. Good company support. The only problem we are having is finding and organizing the proper storage for the zillions of pics she takes. She has overloaded a few computers and external hard drives,likes to use picasa which I dislike because it is so proprietary. Had a file I wanted to show here but I couldn't get the pics arrrghh.
 We have so far ended up mostly leaving the pics on the camera cards and buying more  lol.

 I try to avoid that. I have the potato farmer tan.

I try to throw out as many near miss photos as I can.

We are always upgrading to new backup drives, but the cost still seems cheaper than the space I still use to store all my old negatives.

Our short term goal is to get a NAS server for the entire photo collection so that we may access them wirelessly and sort out the most likely to be valued over the years so they are easy to find and print.

BTW, "her" camera is an original Canon 5d and I use our Canon 5dmkII... we like having them because there are such nice lenses available for them.

The new Canon 6D is about to come out and it has great specs. In the meantime the 5dmkII is dropping in price and is a lot of bang at the latest prices.

But then, the Nikon bodies make some Canon owners, like me, envious.

When you have a bunch of lenses you like it's likely you stay with a system.

It's never clear, to me, which compnay is in the lead at any given time.

We retired a 35mm Nikon FE and gave away the lenses when we bought the Canon full frame DSLR.

Now Nikon makes a real nice full frame body with excellent on board noise reduction processing.

I wish it was easy to use the lenses I have on either. :-)

best regards,
mike

Old55


When will this f-stop? 

Good thing you filtered that reply otherwise the moderators would focus for being naughty.

You know, as much as I like the modern cameras, I learned the most using one of these:
The venerable Argus C3. Totally manual. Introduced in 1938, ended production in 1966.
I was still shooting with it after 2000.
I loved my Nikkormat FT2, and I have more current digital hardware, but there was something very organic about shooting with that C3.

 
My first SLR, which I stll have (in perfect working order) was a wonderful Canon EX Auto...
 
 

 
 
 
The lenses are specific to the camera, as only the front part of the optic unscrews.
 
Aside from the standard lens, I also have the (incredible) 95mm 'portrait' lens.
 
It has two modes, shutter priority and full manual. It sure was a great bit of kit to learn with.
 
 

Canon A1, Mamiya RB67 and an OM10  - some real all time classics there Beag, your dad was certainly right on the money!

If I'd actually decided to try my hand out as a pro, my next purchase was going to be a second-hand Mamiya 645 as an 'entry level' medium format camera. As I mentioned before, I did have an A1 which I always took out with me even after I got my T90.

SteveStrummerUK


Canon A1, Mamiya RB67 and an OM10  - some real all time classics there Beag, your dad was certainly right on the money!

If I'd actually decided to try my hand out as a pro, my next purchase was going to be a second-hand Mamiya 645 as an 'entry level' medium format camera. As I mentioned before, I did have an A1 which I always took out with me even after I got my T90.

He had another 120/220 camera before the Mamiya, but I can't seem to remember what it was.  I didn't use it myself much.  I didn't use the Mamiya myself much either unless I was helping him take photos in the studio, it rarely left the studio.
 
We upgraded the A1 to the AE1 (the newer one) with the motor drive on it.  wow that was so cool!  but heavy!

the description of the Canon doesn't ring a bell, but there's a Canon Museum webpage

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/

which is official Canon so it should have all of the models listed there, you might could find it.

looks like possibly this one Strummy?

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/film/data/1966-1975/1973_ef.html?lang=us&categ=crn&page=1966-1975

The EF had a mechanical controlled shutter for the faster speeds and the slower speeds were electronically controlled.

Beagle


looks like possibly this one Strummy?

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/film/data/1966-1975/1973_ef.html?lang=us&categ=crn&page=1966-1975

The EF had a mechanical controlled shutter for the faster speeds and the slower speeds were electronically controlled.

 
Thanks for the research mate, but I'm sure now it was that FTb. According to Wikipedia: "The FTb has an all-mechanical horizontally traveling focal plane shutter with timed speeds from 1/1000 to 1 second and bulb. The FTb has rubberized silk shutter curtains rather than the more durable but more expensive titanium curtains found on the F-1."
 
 

mike_mccue


I try to throw out as many near miss photos as I can.

We are always upgrading to new backup drives, but the cost still seems cheaper than the space I still use to store all my old negatives.

Our short term goal is to get a NAS server for the entire photo collection so that we may access them wirelessly and sort out the most likely to be valued over the years so they are easy to find and print.

BTW, "her" camera is an original Canon 5d and I use our Canon 5dmkII... we like having them because there are such nice lenses available for them.

The new Canon 6D is about to come out and it has great specs. In the meantime the 5dmkII is dropping in price and is a lot of bang at the latest prices.

But then, the Nikon bodies make some Canon owners, like me, envious.

When you have a bunch of lenses you like it's likely you stay with a system.

It's never clear, to me, which compnay is in the lead at any given time.

We retired a 35mm Nikon FE and gave away the lenses when we bought the Canon full frame DSLR.

Now Nikon makes a real nice full frame body with excellent on board noise reduction processing.

I wish it was easy to use the lenses I have on either. :-)

best regards,
mike

 I like the idea of a dedicated server for pics.  The SDHC cards are now so inexpensive that the short term solution is simply to leave them on a card. My wife does this even when uploading or transferring somewhere else.If we could keep the cards organized it would not be a difficult way to do it. Maybe inconvenient for fast retreival but safer than a platter drive overall. One recent pro photographer whose pics we looked at gave us a server to access. Great idea for a pro who does it for a living. Servers can go down though and just like DAW work need backed up. Data backup in general makes me nervous.