WhiteBeard

So do I ! I certainly don't expect her to follow the same path as I did, developing her own film and making 16x20" prints out of it but just slowing down should be a great experience.

I'm just saying that for my daughter, nostalgia is not an issue. And it's spelled "beaucoup", just saying. For her, it's just emulating some friends who went the slow way home...

Ah the joy of using the split / Fresnel screen ! The manual focus "highlights" of digital cameras still leaves me a bit frustrated...

Rien à voir... It's definitely not about nostalgia.

I agree with the "wait and see" approach. This is why I'm happy to have found the old Nikon P&S instead of paying good money for a used cam. Maybe she is made of sterner stuff but we'll see...

Totally agree, it's a small and sexy camera and I'm trying to find where my dad's one is hiding. As for the Spotmatic, it was one of the first "real" cameras I've used besides a Zeiss Contaflex IV ...

I could teach her the fine art of developing and enlarging but I would be flabbergasted if her film interests went that far...

My dad had one, lovely camera. Now I wonder where it vanished to...

Like they said vinyl records would go out when they introduced CDs. Now CDs are almost out but turntables and vinyl still putter along. Reminds me my Linn Sondek is due for a new belt...

The Stylus Epic is exactly the type of used camera she is looking for but in the meantime, we found an old Nikon pocket cam with fixed FL that can do the job. I also offered her our old Minolta ...

Nostalgia has nothing to do with it in her case. Her 3 motivations : (1) Some of her friends do it. (2) She likes the grainy rendering of some films (I know, I know: You can ...

While I've been an avid film user - as in analog - for 30 years, I must admit not having touched the stuff since around 2000. Now, lo and behold, my 26 year old daughter who had so far only taken ...

BNIFs then ? It might well work but how much better than SAF is certainly not obvious here.

Very nice pics and I appreciate the relation with Zola... Two things though : hard to see how "Bird AI tracking" is working so well with seemingly static ones and also, sorry to have to mention ...

In one word, LUCKY ! Had the lens + G9 landed at at different angle, the applied torque would have probably induced more damage. Go get yourself a loto ticket quickly while your lucky strike is ...

For me, lens hoods first, protect the lens and 2nd, protect against  flares. Very happy that Panasonic provides hoods for all its lenses while Oly seems to make it an optional  luxury  item...

Maybe, but one of the prime rules of good engineering is the KISS principle : Keep It Simple and Stupid (some of us omit the "and"...). Now, the Oly 150-400 is anything but simple. It's a ...

It's only crazy if nobody buys one at these prices. Mind you, I bought mine 800$ Cdn some years ago... I'll be glad if some do ! Simply the best.... :-)