![]() ![]() I guess Pentax is okay (for 35mm - Medium Format is a whole different story). Most of the Nikons are nice but badly designed, clunky, or flat out backwards - good lenses though. I hate the Canon AE-1, I think it’s a bad camera with a backwards meter, honestly Canon SLR’s on the whole before AF are just straight garbage. I’ve always been a “Minolta guy,” my first camera, at age 15 was an XG-M, the repair guys at my local repair shop Walter’s Camera Repair - Call me “the minolta guy.” (not a paid endorsement, seriously, if you’re in LA and need honest repairs done at a fair price and pretty quickly, they can probably help you out.)Įither by gross overfamiliarity or closemindedness, I really don’t like most of the other 35mm camera brands’ SLR’s from the pre-autofocus era. I love these cameras so much, when I had all four break on me, I nearly got their serial numbers tattooed onto my ribs (I didn’t - a friend pointed out that that was kinda Holocaust-ey, and maybe I should avoid that - thanks Jake.) ![]() Let me put a few things out there right now: Also if I end up doing more portraiture or editorial work, and it wasn’t on Medium Format, I’d happily shoot it on my XD. ![]() I may switch to a compact rangefinder (say a CLE with Rokkor 40/2) now that I tote a Pentax 6x7 around for most of my “serious” work, and use 35mm as a bts/quick journal camera, but I’ll never get rid of my workhorse(s). I’ll test out a new camera now and again -mainly an SRT 102 (seriously underrated), and the Minoltina Al-s (also critically underrated). Over the last five years I’ve shot a Minolta XD-series (XD, 11, and 7) camera with near slavish devotion. I have a full shooting set of lenses (and a few extras) in Minolta SR (the actual name of the mount, not MC/MD - so help me god if I hear one more person call it that.), and in Pentax 6x7 for medium format. I have pretty much all the gear I could want or reasonably need. ![]() I’m gonna switch topics from film to cameras and lenses here for the next couple weeks while I wrap up my 2 100ft rolls of Agfapan APX 100. ![]()
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