I seem to be interested in photography. I've started playing with Jae's analogue, manual 35 mm camera. I've also gotten interested in alternative photography, like Polaroid and pinhole cameras. Yesterday I read about fstops, and I have 2 books on constructing and using pinhole cameras on the way. I'm fascinated you can get pictures like this with a cardboard box with a hole in it.
http://www.pinhole.org/gallery/artist.cfm?name=Nhung_Dang
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The best cameras in the world are essentially small boxes with holes in them.
And in this case I'm talking exactly a small box with a hole in it.
What are these "best cameras in the world" you speak of?
All cameras are just dark boxes with a recording medium in them. You let in a little light and you have a picture. The lenses matter, but they're all the same.
What kind of manual camera do you have? I have a Pentax K1000. In getting my current super-duper camera, one of the two main considerations was that it was one of the very few serious digital cameras that could be used in a fully-manual mode.
All cameras are just dark boxes with a recording medium in them
I thought that's what you meant. The difference with pinhole cameras is there in no lens. I guess divorcing the idea of lens from camera is the big cognitive leap for me.
What kind of manual camera do you have?
Yashica FX-3 Super 2000. I couldn't tell you how it compares to other cameras, although it gets good reviews online. I believe Jae's sister, Rachek, gave it to Jae when she went digital. It's an all mechanical, no frills device.
Lens is ML 50 mm 1:1.9.
I have a Pentax K1000
Reading about it, sounds similar to Jae's Yashica. They were good performance for the price when new, and have a reputation for being durable and reliable.
What makes your super-duper camera super-duper?
My current camera takes all my 30 year-old glass (lenses from the K1000), and unlike most digital SLRs it goes fully-manual.
Yes, Matt, that does sound like a badass digital camera.
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