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Subjective camera preferences.....

Started May 19, 2014 | Discussions thread
AlanWatson Contributing Member • Posts: 670
Re: Subjective camera preferences.....

merijnwijnen wrote:

And the camera that I liked most?

My old and battered (now disfunctional) Practika film camera with its 2 not to good 50 and 135 mm lenses. With an allowance of 8 images a day, otherwise it got to expensive. Manual focus, a nifty needle for exposure, ran forever on one battery, and without metering also without battery. That got me an amazingly high keeper rate, far higher than nowadays. That was in the 80s.

I had (and still have) a camera with very similar features which is surely my favourite ever: an Olympus OM-1 I bought second-hand as a teenager.

The thing that tempts me most about the E-M1 is the extent to which it reminds me of a digital OM-1. If they'd put a shutter speed dial around the lens mount I don't think I could possibly resist

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Nikon Z7 II Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm F1.8G Nikon AP-F 70-300mm F4.5-5.6E Nikon Z 14-30mm F4 Nikon Z 24-200mm F4-6.3 VR +1 more
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