Pawslut420 on Nostr: nprofile1q…tlwzr roland Curator of Mastodon.art fediblock :newt: >it makes you ...
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>it makes you mysterious and stoic to w*men.
A lot of that isn't even about shooting film, but about the aesthetics of the camera body you own. It's why there's a craze for digital cameras that look like film cameras, like the E-Pen, Nikon Df and Zf, pretty much everything Fuji has put out in the past few years, etc. Or why film photographers will wear old vintage SLRs or Lecias/rangefinders like gold chains.
Late film bodies like the F5/6, Minolta Alpha/Maxxum/Dynax, or the Canon T90 and EOS don't have this appeal to them. They look exactly like a DSLR, especially with the F5/6 having similar Digital bodies existing.
If you get something like a Nikon N90s/F90X for around $30-50, or even a later "Plastic Fantastic" body like the Minolta Maxxum 5 or Nikon N80 for a similar price, you can get a lot of DSLR features like focus point selection/auto selection, great autoexposure, and more. Then it's literally just like shooting digital except instead of a sensor you have a film stock you're shooting on. Nobody will know it's a film camera until you turn the back around and see the window, and even a late film body like the Maxxum 7 can blur the lines. If you get a more reliable one, you'll also have something that's going to last longer without a CLA like the old cameras need.
>it makes you mysterious and stoic to w*men.
A lot of that isn't even about shooting film, but about the aesthetics of the camera body you own. It's why there's a craze for digital cameras that look like film cameras, like the E-Pen, Nikon Df and Zf, pretty much everything Fuji has put out in the past few years, etc. Or why film photographers will wear old vintage SLRs or Lecias/rangefinders like gold chains.
Late film bodies like the F5/6, Minolta Alpha/Maxxum/Dynax, or the Canon T90 and EOS don't have this appeal to them. They look exactly like a DSLR, especially with the F5/6 having similar Digital bodies existing.
If you get something like a Nikon N90s/F90X for around $30-50, or even a later "Plastic Fantastic" body like the Minolta Maxxum 5 or Nikon N80 for a similar price, you can get a lot of DSLR features like focus point selection/auto selection, great autoexposure, and more. Then it's literally just like shooting digital except instead of a sensor you have a film stock you're shooting on. Nobody will know it's a film camera until you turn the back around and see the window, and even a late film body like the Maxxum 7 can blur the lines. If you get a more reliable one, you'll also have something that's going to last longer without a CLA like the old cameras need.