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Post by JayUtah on Jun 7, 2006 0:12:54 GMT -4
I think it's hilarious that some people today think that manually-operated camera controls are impossible. I'll bet these people can't drive a stick-shift either. I can remember my first Pentax K-1000. Fully manual operation, but it had the extreme luxury of a through-the-lens light meter. Gone were the days when you had the separate light meter dangling from your camera strap. I shot thousands of photographs as a student with a fully manual camera. I'm glad none of these people were around to tell me how impossible that would have been.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jun 7, 2006 0:22:58 GMT -4
My digital still has manual settings if you decide you want to use them.
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Post by nomuse on Jun 7, 2006 3:09:54 GMT -4
My first camera was a big 'ol box camera. I didn't have a light meter so I shot everything in brackets. My next camera was an 8mm hand-wound film camera. I had a light meter then -- one of those cute ones with the graduated plastic strip inside. You'd hold it up and squint and try to figure out which numbers were too dark to see. The shutter speed was a little limited so I spent a lot of time trying to match up f-stop, distance to subject, and light meter (using the handy little chart on the side of the camera).
The one after that was a Minolta SLR. Manual everything, again, but at least you could look through the lens and see if f8 was still getting that flower into focus. The fun part was figuring out if your hand was shaking too badly to get away with a 1/100 shutter.
But enough reminiscing.
(I still drive stick.)
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Post by hplasm on Jun 7, 2006 5:51:54 GMT -4
3 aperture settings: A sun, 1/2 a sun/cloud, a cloud. two focus markings:- one tree, many trees.
Joy!
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Post by 3onthetree on Jun 7, 2006 7:08:49 GMT -4
1.4 2.0 2.8 4 5.6 8 11 16 22
Well you can see why a kid like me may get confused. I'm definitely not going to pretend to be a Photography expert.
Thank goodness for full auto digital camera's and four speed auto transmission.
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Post by gwiz on Jun 7, 2006 8:50:39 GMT -4
Two different cameras. The F/2 quote refers to the sequence camera, not the Hasselblad.
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Post by Kiwi on Jun 7, 2006 9:20:35 GMT -4
Mushroom: Didn't you notice in PhantomWolf's post: 109:22:28 Aldrin: Okay. Will you verify the position - the opening - I ought to have on the (16 mm movie) camera?
It says, with a bracketted insertion to explain, "16mm movie camera." There's a big difference between a 16mm movie camera and a Hasselblad still camera that takes 6 x 6 cm negatives and transparencies. Buzz was still inside the LM at that time and was not using a Hasselblad. If you studied the ALSJ you would know such things too.
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Bob B.
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Post by Bob B. on Jun 7, 2006 9:23:25 GMT -4
I can remember my first Pentax K-1000. Although I never owned one, the first SLR I ever used was a K-1000. I thought it was a great camera. Ever since then I’ve insisted that any camera I own have a manual mode. I ended up buying a Pentax ME Super, which I still consider my primary camera. Back in 1994 I was traveling to Bolivia for a total solar eclipse and I wanted a second camera with full manual control that I could use with my telescope. I went to a camera show and found a guy selling a used Olympus OM-1 cheap because it had a broken light meter. Perfect, who needs a light meter for astrophotography! The day after the eclipse my Pentax camera broke. For the rest of my vacation I took all my photographs using the OM-1 with no light meter and only manual controls. Although my results where hit and miss, I came back home with many useable photos. If I had a chance to shoot a practice roll of film first, I probably would have gotten very good results.
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Post by scooter on Jun 7, 2006 12:13:59 GMT -4
Still have my Pentax K1000, takes wonderful shots. And an old Kodak Retina, also good camera. So many folks just look at the "old days" in today's context and can't make the mental leap back. My first USAF assignment was at a SAGE air defense site, the whole bottom floor of the enormous blockhouse was the computer, vaccuum tube based. The memory was measured in kilobytes. The displays used digital displays that contained hand etched digits and letters. The old building, at Luke AFB, is now an admin building. Technology changes, but that doesn't mean that people didn't know how to use it to get things done.
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Post by 3onthetree on Jun 7, 2006 16:04:48 GMT -4
Not initially ;D Thus the post, in my defence there was a lot of radioactivity on this board at the time.
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Post by sts60 on Jun 7, 2006 16:36:19 GMT -4
This board can be a searing radiation hell at times. Bring your SPF 1.5*10^12 next time!
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jun 7, 2006 17:05:50 GMT -4
Is that per kilogram, sts60?
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jun 7, 2006 17:06:30 GMT -4
By the way, just for the record, I drive a stick shift,always have. I hate Autos.
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Post by sts60 on Jun 7, 2006 22:24:17 GMT -4
Is that per kilogram, sts60?Yes. It's also rads, rem, millisieverts, curie-volt-lumen^1.5/gallon(at 735 degrees Rankine for 90 minutes, let stand 10 minutes before serving) picopercies^2, joules/ smoot, furlongs/fortnight, and cubic acres per mole. They're all the same.
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Post by hplasm on Jun 8, 2006 14:32:19 GMT -4
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