My wife's camera broke after 6-1/2 years of good use...

I had a software camera once. It was full of bugs though.

so you'll be trading Sonar in for this?

Does that thing run VST3?

Hey Mike, ask the repair centre if they can get an image count. I was talking to a pro photographer about the state of our beloved Nikon's and he told me one of his main cameras had died. At the service centre they determined the shutter died, but it had taken 530,000 pictures before doing so!

It's scary when cameras and cars and photocopiers all get put on the same diagnostic equipment. 

You got that right and I agree 100% I can't afford the modern day version of my Cannon F1 or the Nikon F2 I had. Both had brass bodies and real glass. Lack of spares convinced me to jump into digital and I don't regret it. Like you say, money for processing isn't a factor any more. I have a decent printer and get great results on a budget.

My only complaint with the new stuff is that there's no way to take a picture if the battery dies and I now have a bushel basket of wall warts and chargers for the tech.

From what I've seen, and talking to some pro's, Cannon is the one you want. My next camera.

My snazzy little Leica is still going strong after 5 years. Such a great point and shoot and small enough to stuff into a pocket. I got lazy about taking it out after I got an iPhone 4S because the camera on those things is pretty good and very adequate for posting photos online etc...but taking my Leica out again recently I realized there is just no comparison. And how I have missed shooting in RAW and the post-processing potential you get with it, like recovering detail from blown out highlights etc...try doing that on an iPhone!

I used to shoot hundreds of photos a day, then spend most of the evening sorting through them and processing them in Lightroom and Silver Efex etc...now it's like everyone's just slapping cheesy Instagram filters on everything. 

JB, is the red line the bad news or the good news? It's so hard to tell with these 32bit graphs.

Jonbouy

bapu


JB, is the red line the bad news or the good news? It's so hard to tell with these 32bit graphs.

That graph was rendered with "for real" hardware pens and real ink.

Thanks Jon,  now I can't clean it off my screen...

I used  to work for Canon 'til I got fired.

Jonbouy


I used  to work for Canon 'til I got fired.

I bet they had a ball with you, eh?
 
(Did they tell you you'll go far?)

Karyn

craigb

Jonbouy


I used  to work for Canon 'til I got fired.

I bet they had a ball with you, eh?
 
(Did they tell you you'll go far?)

Can we put a muzzel on this before someone gets hurt?

Too late, Jon was loaded on the job.

Guitarhacker


I have an old Cannon 35mm professional camera with a large number of lenses. I ran lots of film through it but it seems most folks like the convenience of digital these days.  I used it mainly for hobby purposes but I did a few weddings and some aerial photography with it and more then paid for it several times over.... 

I had considered selling it but looking on Ebay.... prices are really low for 35mm stuff...so I guess I hold it. I did remove the battery so it doesn't mess up the camera.... the battery is only used for the light meter.... the camera is 100% manual. 

 

Moshkiae


All of the photos I took of the many bands I spent time with were done with ... a Canon AE1 ... of all things!

 
Herb, Pedro, up in the attic I still have my beloved Canon T90 (with dedicated 300TL Speedlight and selection of FD lenses - 24mm, 28mm, 35mm, 50mmL, 70-210mm - and a nice range of Cokin filters) - sadly I don't use it anymore (I use a 12MP Olympus Digital 'Compact' now). It has an interchangeable back, originally designed to accept either a bulk film cartridge and/or a 'computerised' back (that saved/printed details of each shot) - if ever some bright spark comes up with a CCD back that would fit I'd buy one in an instant.
 
I used the T90 system (plus an A1 body I no longer have) when I was dipping a tentative foot into part-time freelance work many years ago. LOL I didn't earn a lot of dosh but the experience was absolutely invaluable.
 
One of these days I fully intend to ditch the Olympus and buy myself a new digital SLR system, probably based around a Canon body. To be honest, one of the major reasons I haven't done so yet is because I simply don't know enough about the current market. I've sounded out a couple of local camera shops about wanting a modern system similar to my old T90 gear, but they just try and sell you a top of the range outfit that's going to be about £1500 - £2500. For someone who just wants to be able to be fully in control of every shot I take, I don't think I can justify that sort of outlay to myself. Maybe I need to read up a bit more and see what's what.
 

Kenneth

 

Go manual, get a good spot meter and learn the zone system, best thing I ever did.

Some great advice there Kenneth.
 
I learned more about taking well exposed photographs using the metering system of my T90 in full manual mode (it has an 8-point spot/zone metering system built in), using a standard grey card, and using an ambient light meter than by using any number of 'automatic' modes.
 
 
 
 

bapu

craigb

Karyn

craigb

Jonbouy


I used  to work for Canon 'til I got fired.

I bet they had a ball with you, eh?

(Did they tell you you'll go far?)

Can we put a muzzel on this before someone gets hurt?

Too late, Jon was loaded on the job.

Old55


I hope you didn't go ballistic.  

These are just a bunch of cheap shots in this Fred about cameras

I shutter to think of the exposure these are getting.
 
(But, you have to admit, we were on a roll, ya?)

This thread was good for a while, but now there's no depth in the field.