Emegra
TPF Noob!
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2019
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- 30
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- Location
- Dundee, Scotland
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Hi guys
I haven't posted in a while mainly because I haven't had anything to say
but yesterday I took delivery of a camera I bought off ebay a Kiev 4 of 1980 vintage
and what a beautiful machine it is, I haven't been able to shoot with it yet because I haven't got film and it's almost impossible to buy locally but just holding it in my hand is an absolute joy.
The reason I bought it was because I want to go back to basics I don't want auto focus, aperture priority, shutter priority, evaluative metering, Ai servo, blink detection or any other fancy function, available to us on even the most basic digital cameras, I want to learn photography, I want to understand the science
This camera will help me do that and I don't believe I'm alone,
Film is making a bit of a comeback but I don't think it's because we want to use film, it because we want to use these cameras, modern digital cameras are amazing, they take all the hard work out of photography but they're boring Canon, Nikon, Sony They're all much of a muchness and they're dumbing down photography, These old film camera may not come close to the quality of images we can take with modern DSLR's or mirrorless camera but they're a lot more fun and a lot more challenging, so from an amateur perspective if photography ceases to be challenging or ceases to be fun is it worth doing
I haven't posted in a while mainly because I haven't had anything to say
but yesterday I took delivery of a camera I bought off ebay a Kiev 4 of 1980 vintage
and what a beautiful machine it is, I haven't been able to shoot with it yet because I haven't got film and it's almost impossible to buy locally but just holding it in my hand is an absolute joy.
The reason I bought it was because I want to go back to basics I don't want auto focus, aperture priority, shutter priority, evaluative metering, Ai servo, blink detection or any other fancy function, available to us on even the most basic digital cameras, I want to learn photography, I want to understand the science
This camera will help me do that and I don't believe I'm alone,
Film is making a bit of a comeback but I don't think it's because we want to use film, it because we want to use these cameras, modern digital cameras are amazing, they take all the hard work out of photography but they're boring Canon, Nikon, Sony They're all much of a muchness and they're dumbing down photography, These old film camera may not come close to the quality of images we can take with modern DSLR's or mirrorless camera but they're a lot more fun and a lot more challenging, so from an amateur perspective if photography ceases to be challenging or ceases to be fun is it worth doing