tsiya
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It's the only manual focus I have now.
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Favourite Manual Focus Camera and Why?
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Simon97
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KR5 super II and KR5 III (rare)
They are cheap and they work. They also take my old Pentax SMC K mount lenses and there are some real jems in that line-up. The meter is plenty accurate for slides.
I sold them when I went digital SLR in 03, but picked up another one with lens for $30 on ebay. My "kit" is 28mm, 50mm, 135mm. I'd like to add a 200mm and something wider eventually. I have $80 invested in my kit so far. Main purpose is B&W film.
Nice thing is that I can use the lenses on a digital Pentax SLR if I ever want to go that route.
They are cheap and they work. They also take my old Pentax SMC K mount lenses and there are some real jems in that line-up. The meter is plenty accurate for slides.
I sold them when I went digital SLR in 03, but picked up another one with lens for $30 on ebay. My "kit" is 28mm, 50mm, 135mm. I'd like to add a 200mm and something wider eventually. I have $80 invested in my kit so far. Main purpose is B&W film.
Nice thing is that I can use the lenses on a digital Pentax SLR if I ever want to go that route.
sean000
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I might feel different with a full frame optical viewfinder, but the OVF on my Nikon D200 DSLR just isn't big enough to effectively judge manual focus. The green dot confirmation does help, but I prefer to see for myself. Enter my Panasonic GF1. I can mount my Nikon lenses using an adapter, and when I manually focus I can press a button to magnify the live view on the LCD or electronic viewfinder. It's very easy: Compose, focus manually, press button to magnify and refine focus, click the shutter. I can do this very quickly thanks to the magnified view. Sometimes I don't even need to use it since the LCD is high resolution.
Jirka-
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Well, I live in Prague where a lot of Pentacon Six users live and a used original magnifying glass can be bought in second hand stores. I do not know about a website but it woud proably be easier to buy it in Gemany, Czech republic, Poland than in the west. I still have mine, but I am not sure, whether I will not return to MF film photography one day. I will look it up or you, but no time until next week.
Leonard Migliore
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I still have my FE2 and I pick it up and click the shutter all the time but I haven't actually had film in it for years. But it's just such a lovely machine.
My favorite manual focus camera, though, is the Kodak Retina IIc. Beautifully made, Schneider Xenon lens, compact package. It was a joy to use and the results were as good as any 35mm could ever get. I really think the Xenon hasn't been beat yet.
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ABA DABA
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I have two, CanonF-1 and Mamiya RB-67, why because they and I like the feel of each of them
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tex
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nada
Vorinsky
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Zenit E http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenit_%28camera%29
I will never forget my happiness when I got it. It was a Sunday back in late 70s and I couldn't get another roll of film, so all I could do was shoot 36 images and then wait. That same day I locked myself in the bathroom with the light bulb in my pocket so noone would accidentally turn my dark room into disaster area and developed my own first roll of film and pictures.
I think my mother still has it somewhere back home.
I will never forget my happiness when I got it. It was a Sunday back in late 70s and I couldn't get another roll of film, so all I could do was shoot 36 images and then wait. That same day I locked myself in the bathroom with the light bulb in my pocket so noone would accidentally turn my dark room into disaster area and developed my own first roll of film and pictures.
I think my mother still has it somewhere back home.
pixseal
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The T90 was the best TD camera that Canon made (except maybe for the durability of the F1). Canon designed this camera using many of features later found in the EOS designs - shaped body, TTL flash, FEC, FEL, spot metering and built-in power winder. It was my last MF body.
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KCampbell
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The waist level finder is 6cmx6cm, shielded from the light and incorporates a built in magnifying loupe.
Kevin
Kevin
My overwhelming favorite: Pentax MX. Lightweight, tough enough to withstand abuse, fast focusing, solid feel, and completely manual. The battery only ran the meter. I owned several of these, each loaded with a different film. I really miss using them although I have no regrets about leaving film behind.
SLRPhotRookie
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Was the first SLR I bought, and as such the only one that had manual focus. Twenty plus years goes by fast!
tex
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looked into getting an LX, but never did---by the time i found ones i could afford, i was already moving away from 35mm.
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