Bluelight photographers, unite!

[wanderlust]

oh!
i have the mamiya 645 too
luver it

 

[nowonmai]

I would love an RB67... have to prove myself with 35mm first before I could justify it though.

 

[nowonmai]

nikon FM... on the same simplicty is grand level as an EM

Dunno how you could compare an FM to an EM. EM is very much a student camera... FM is one of the most hard wearing, never break-down, from the sahara to the arctic cameras ever made. I've been keeping my eye on eBay for months now looking for a bargain FM or FM2.

 

[SA]

Could do with a dusting off too :D

You're not kidding! LOL

crystalcallas, v.nice pic. You've got beautiful skin!

I love trains, that pic was dreamy (enchanting), pillsnapa.

Nice! I'm jealous of all the equipment and images.

 

[wanderlust]

Dunno how you could compare an FM to an EM. EM is very much a student camera... FM is one of the most hard wearing, never break-down, from the sahara to the arctic cameras ever made. I've been keeping my eye on eBay for months now looking for a bargain FM or FM2.

true, FM is higher end and the EM was a try by nikon to follow up the success of the FM and FE series two years later.
but i was comparing them in their simplicty. they are both small metal bodied cameras with all manual settings, no Af, no app. priotiry or exposure mode built into the body/computer chip inside, no motorized advance of film, no computer inputs for asa, fstops, apps or anything. it is all hands-on, turn the little knobs yourself, if you mess up it is all your own fault, simplistic camera workings for both.
i really wasnt going for a side by side compare and contrast on the EM and FM- more so just a contrast between old faithful mind and gears cameras and the computers on baord cameras of the last (really now more than a) few years

 

[nowonmai]

Anyone ever considered old Former Soviet Union cameras like FEDs and Zorkis?

They're Leica copies. Some good, some not so good and some amazing. The glass is generally copied from Leica designs, but there are a few Zeiss-alike lenses too.
They're available off eBay for upwards of $20, but usually you'd pay more for any sort of guarantee or working order. Well worth it when you compare the looks of these babies against the plasticky things that abound these days.

 

[dr seuss]

we have a shitty shitty digital camera with a crack in the lens, but i like the artefacts it leaves

 

[FunkyAlfonzo]

^^ That second one is great (hey seuss!) and jaymie your pictures are awesome

I recently lost most of my pictures due to a HDD failure (back up your photo's!!) this is my favourite digital that I have saved. Although I still have quite a few just on 35mm, but I don't have a scanner to share them...

My digital photo's are just with a Canon IXUS40 - the one above was taken though a pair of orange sunglasses, but my 35mm is a canon EOS300X. I usually use 3200ASA b+w film and colour filters cos they allow for taking in all conditions and come out with the right kind of atmostphere for my shots.

 

[iLoveYouWithaKnife]

 

[RexHunt]

As promised from the photo threads

As promised, I took 2 pics while camping last weekend and here they are :D

That was at 6:30am, sitting at the campfire. I gave it my best photography effort (I'm a total noob haha, took it with a 5.0 megapixel phone camera.

This is from the Rainbow Beach Surf Club...we dropped in for a few beers. I had a good crack at this as well however I'd had a few cones and beers by that stage

What do you guys think? I'm looking for photo tips, especially in regards to the first one. I never know how to take pics in weird light well.

 

[caff]

For a photo to be interesting, there has to be a clear subject you are shooting. Something that draws the viewer's eye straight away, and the rest of the scene just complements the subject.

 

[Klue]

I used to drive down past through there to check out the surf in my lunch hour. Awesome view from Point Danger.

 

[spork]

Merging

 

[amor fati]

I'll just tell you what I shoot with, I don't feel like taking pictures of cameras. I have a Nikond d100, a canon rebel XTi. I havn't invested in any additional Nikor lenses yet but for the canon I have the canon 70-200L as well as a 50mm prime and a sigma 10-20. I don't currently own a 35 mm as I can check out a hassleblad medium format from my school.

Here are a few recent pics