I like shooting with a film camera too on occasion, have several with
film in them, but this is to a film camera what a baby alligator is to a
puppy.
On 10/10/2017 8:12 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Brian Walters wrote:
On 11 October 2017 at 09:48 "Daniel J.
Matyola"<[email protected]> wrote:
Seems rather stupid to me.
Yeah - Yashica made some fine cameras back in the day. Now someone
has bought
the rights to the name and is set on making it a laughing stock. Or
maybe I'm a
bit too old to appreciate this camera's coolness...
It will open up a market for artisanal hand crafted pixels.
It's interesting how in the video the same woman is both ostensibly
the photographer and also the model. I really expected to see a guy
with a hipster beard and a fixie bike. At least she had the hipster
cigarette going.
The video did have the crappy artsy color balance. I noticed how it
was all about the experience and not the image quality. I will note
that the canisters do make the settings easier, since you can't worry
about ISO etc. you don't have to worry about them. And there is a
precedent for the lack of a screen, doesn't Leica do that on one of
their cameras? They could advertise the same rear screen as a Leica
that costs several times as much. I wonder what the point of the
winder is? I guess just to replicate the film experience.
Snark aside, I have noticed that in many ways I much prefer the
experience of shooting with a film camera. Photographing with my Argus
is an entirely different experience than with my DSLRs. I haven't run
a roll through a film SLR in ages, but being forced to think about
everything in advance, and whether each press of the shutter is worth
$1 does change the experience. Be that as it may, there are many
reasons that I shoot digital and haven't gone back to film.
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