Something new to shoot with! What's yours?

[Member 45541]

I have been wanting to upgrade my current camera and get a little into better photography. Not looking to be professional, nor even semi-professional. Just better than what I can currently do with my current camera/cell phone. This Canon EOS R100 Mirrorless just showed up at my doorstep and I'm anxious to get started! Battery is on the charger and I'm still waiting on a few accessories to show up to get started. What do you shoot with?

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[Andy54Hawken]

Back when I was into photography....
I used a Pentax K1000
Andy

 

[Nosferatu]

I haven't had a proper SLR for about 5 years now. I use to do a lot of product photography for money and random stuff just for fun, but lost interest a while ago.

I still have my lenses (Nikon) and have thought about getting another camera body. I just struggle since I would spend so much effort on getting a good picture while completely missing the overall experience.

 

[Member 24198]

I've got an old Nikon DSLR that I bought after my daughter was born about nine years ago.

 

[edzz]

Mostly use my iPhone or drone now.
Digital took a lot of the fun out of photography for me. Miss doing wet work.
The Olympus macro system just sits neglected on the shelf. The Jobo color dark room went away ~30 years ago. Really should get rid of the slide scanners some day.

 

[TTSX]

We start with the James Webb and go down from there. I'm currently stuck on Kodak plastic clicky roll film

 

[oremike]

I have a Sony A-something made by Minolta and a suitcase of different lenses and filters. I should get it out and see if the batteries will hold a charge and make some shooting videos or something. 20 years ago it was a decent set up.

 

[BoringCruffler]

I started a 25 year 'career' as a pro photographer with a Pentax K1000, (not stalking your posts, Andy, I swear), but while it was a great way (and I had a great teacher in 1979) to learn about composition and timing, the metering on that machine was straight out of the Japan of the 40s. It was a much appreciated Christmas gift, and yes, I had the obligatory green and gold, two inch wide neck strap.

Trying to get a bit more serious, I 'graduated' to the ME-Super. My original Asahi f1.2, and later Zeiss f1.4 normal lenses still fit, and the platform was so adaptable... Zooms, motor drives, at one point I had a 1500mm telephoto I used for full-frame moon shots.

I'm not exactly proud of it, but some of you of a certain age may know me from the Nickel Ads as 'The Ninety-nine-dollar Wedding Guy'. With a black body -ME loaded with 'ASA' (now ISO, of course) 200 Fujichrome, and a silver body with ASA 400 Kodak-E, I could schedule and shoot ten weddings a week 'in season'. It was good money in those days. I also did work for several magazines, but that was always 'on spec', I had a good time, but barely paid for gas.

But I (very obviously) digress... The OP's question was about 'what's new', and what do you shoot now...

They aren't my originals; I repurchased for nostalgia, but I still have both black and silver ME-Supers as well as f1.2 normal and zooms. My first foray into MF, The Kowa 6 is long gone as well as the Kiev 80 I passed off to my catalogue clients as a Hasselblad. I still have a very nice 4x5" monorail, but haven't put film in it for over a decade... I always wanted a Nikon F3/HP, but it didn't fit into the budget back then, and I haven't come across one recently that wasn't either more than I'm willing to pay for a toy, or beaten mostly to death.

Today, for most work, it is Nikon DSLR, and the D3500 is my favorite. But, I recently picked up a Z5 and am starting to find some charm in the mirror-less design. I shifted to AF as my eyesight worsened with age. The LCD display takes even more focus control from my eyesight, but the camera does a better job than I ever did.

So glad my income doesn't depend on that hustle today...

 

[Stomper]

I started a 25 year 'career' as a pro photographer with a Pentax K1000, (not stalking your posts, Andy, I swear), but while it was a great way (and I had a great teacher in 1979) to learn about composition and timing, the metering on that machine was straight out of the Japan of the 40s. It was a much appreciated Christmas gift, and yes, I had the obligatory green and gold, two inch wide neck strap.

Trying to get a bit more serious, I 'graduated' to the ME-Super. My original Asahi f1.2, and later Zeiss f1.4 normal lenses still fit, and the platform was so adaptable... Zooms, motor drives, at one point I had a 1500mm telephoto I used for full-frame moon shots.

I'm not exactly proud of it, but some of you of a certain age may know me from the Nickel Ads as 'The Ninety-nine-dollar Wedding Guy'. With a black body -ME loaded with 'ASA' (now ISO, of course) 200 Fujichrome, and a silver body with ASA 400 Kodak-E, I could schedule and shoot ten weddings a week 'in season'. It was good money in those days. I also did work for several magazines, but that was always 'on spec', I had a good time, but barely paid for gas.

But I (very obviously) digress... The OP's question was about 'what's new', and what do you shoot now...

They aren't my originals; I repurchased for nostalgia, but I still have both black and silver ME-Supers as well as f1.2 normal and zooms. My first foray into MF, The Kowa 6 is long gone as well as the Kiev 80 I passed off to my catalogue clients as a Hasselblad. I still have a very nice 4x5" monorail, but haven't put film in it for over a decade... I always wanted a Nikon F3/HP, but it didn't fit into the budget back then, and I haven't come across one recently that wasn't either more than I'm willing to pay for a toy, or beaten mostly to death.

Today, for most work, it is Nikon DSLR, and the D3500 is my favorite. But, I recently picked up a Z5 and am starting to find some charm in the mirror-less design. I shifted to AF as my eyesight worsened with age. The LCD display takes even more focus control from my eyesight, but the camera does a better job than I ever did.

So glad my income doesn't depend on that hustle today...

Full "moon" shots you say?

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

My first foray into MF, The Kowa 6 is long gone as well as the Kiev 80 I passed off to my catalogue clients as a Hasselblad. I still have a very nice 4x5" monorail, but haven't put film in it for over a decade...

I loved my Kowa's! Well, except when it was time to reload them under stress Never had the Kiev, but had a couple Koni Omega Rapid 100's

 

[ilikegunspdx]

I have been wanting to upgrade my current camera and get a little into better photography. Not looking to be professional, nor even semi-professional. Just better than what I can currently do with my current camera/cell phone. This Canon EOS R100 Mirrorless just showed up at my doorstep and I'm anxious to get started! Battery is on the charger and I'm still waiting on a few accessories to show up to get started. What do you shoot with?

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Mirrorless is great if you don't have a lot invested in standard lenses. I'm too invested in standard lenses to move to mirrorless. But maybe they make an adapter I don't know.? I don't shoot much anymore but when I do it's a Nikon d810. Still have my Nikon d750 which is such a great and forgiving camera I can't bear to sell it.

 

[BoringCruffler]

Full "moon" shots you say?

Umm... I said full FRAME moon shots... Harder than you might think... At 1500mm, F8, 1/30th, asa100, two tripods; one for the camera, one for the lens, 60 pounds of sandbags hanging on the tripods, cable-release... and everything had to be aimed and focused in under a minute or you would lose the frame.

Still funny, tho, sir

I loved my Kowa's! Well, except when it was time to reload them under stress Never had the Kiev, but had a couple Koni Omega Rapid 100's

My original Kowa-Six is one I'd like to replace, but they just don't seem to be out there... The glass wasn't as good as the 'blads, especially for deep focus fields, but those leaf shutters were amazing. I could synch strobes from five angles at 1/500th, pinch 'em down to f22, and capture every curl of steam off the plate. Later I had the -66, it was lighter and easier to load, but was harder to keep clean and hated damp weather.

I actually had Hasselblad stickers made up for the viewfinder on the Kiev, and not once did an editor notice at a pitch. I had two of them over the years; one marked Kiev as an export unit, and one marked (not a Cyrillic keyboard--use imagination) Knueb that was intended for the local market. The export model was hugely more reliable and had much better lens-plane alignment. Both were OK for daylight shooting, and the Kiev was solid for long exposures, but when I went into my 'studio' (read: the back half of a one car garage which had a solid back wall as I had walled off four feet that was my darkroom), I used the Pentax most of the time, and the K-6 the rest. Most 'pros' were demanding MF at the time, and I even had a setup so I could do the shoot in 35mm, and use the enlarger to "print' it onto a Kiev film back loaded with Ektechrome so I could submit 6x6. I never got called out on those either...

But to the point of 'Today', this was actually this fall and there was smoke in the air, but I still think the DSLR did a good job. Had to reduce the res a lot to make NWFA happy, but I think the point is there.

 

[Bobbygun]

I just downgraded to a Kodak FZ55 because I was tired of lugging the bigger but only slightly more expensive Canon something or other around. I've carried that Canon around in my hunting backpack for hundreds of miles and many years. Recently, it would reset itself and want me to enter the time and date every time I turned it on, instead of just when I changed batteries. Reading several of the posts above regarding lenses and meters and such makes my eyes glaze over. But then so does the unexpectedly long 81-page owner's manual for my new camera. Sheesh. I thought I was getting simplicity for my hundred bucks. At least it is light.

 

[Member 53867]

I've had an Argus C3, a Ricoh KR-5, and a Pentax ME Super 35mm cameras before buying a Nikon D70s. Still have the Nikon but the others are long gone. These are some of the last pics I took with the Pentax.




Mostly just use the phone now. I don't think my skills are good enough to warrant a new digital camera.




ETA: If I flip that last picture over, it looks like a formation of drones coming over the treetops, LOL.

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

My original Kowa-Six is one I'd like to replace, but they just don't seem to be out there...

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It would also be nice if there was a good repair shop for them not run by an unhinged racist

 

[OrPackrat]

I recently got a Samsung S24 Ultra, has some nice cameras on it...

 

[Member 45541]

I got one of those small waterproof cases off Amazon and while I don't place 100% faith in its proofness, it will suffice for Oregon's rainy day weather. Perfect size for camera/charger and spare battery.

 

[OrPackrat]

DJI Mini 3 on the backside of Devils Lake in Lincoln City.

 

[MikeInOr]

My current main camera is a Sony A7RIV, which I love! For a few years I did quite a few senior pictures, Pro bono, when my daughter was in high school. I would usually do a sitting with a 2 flash setup and thoroughly enjoyed being able to give the students and parents a "real" portrait to send to family and friends. A couple mothers would come with their daughters for the sitting which was fine with me. I have shot a few weddings over the years which is a ton of work and not something I would ever want to do professionally.

I have been an active amateur photographer for 45+ years. My first SLR was a Minolta Maxxum 7000 which my father bought in 1985 and let me use. I still have that camera. I remember dreaming of owning the latest greatest SLR's over the years, stuff I knew I could never afford. I now own all those old film cameras that I dreamed about over the years but keep my old camera collecting to under $50 and usually spend around $20. I will occasionally shoot a roll of film through my Pentax 6x7 for fun but digital is so much easier!

I picked up this vintage gem at a garage sale for $20:


It is truly a marvel of engineering and craftsmanship... but one of my least favorite cameras to shoot with, mainly due to no built in exposure metering.

One of my favorite pictures of my daughter when she was young:

 

[BoringCruffler]

I picked up this vintage gem at a garage sale for $20:

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It is truly a marvel of engineering and craftsmanship... but one of my least favorite cameras to shoot with, mainly due to no built in exposure metering.

Twenty Bucks? Yoo Suk!

I never used an M3, but in the early 90s I hung out with some people popular on the Portland music scene, and I had an M6 that I used for backstage work 'because it looked cool'...

On the plus side; I bought it in a pawnshop, and sold it a year later on consignment at Citizen's for $200 more than I paid.

My biggest foray into RF cameras was an original, 1963 Yashica Lynx. I bought it at one of the camera swap meets they used to have at the Expo Center, and was very surprised to notice that it was mounted with the 15mm fisheye. I knew at the time how rare they were, and couldn't make the deal fast enough. I paid $185 for the kit, played with it for a couple of years, and sold the 15mm on eBay for $425 and the body for $150.

It was fun, but I never really missed it after it was gone.