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Do digital cameras benefit from UV(skylight) filters in the same

situations that a film camera would? I don't know what part of the

visible and invisible light spectrum a digital sensor is sensitive to

as compared to film. Thanks for any info.

I am in the process of buying a QL-17 so have been doing some research.

If you go to the Classic Camera Repair Forum and do a key word search for the QL-17 you will find a disturbing number of threads on this camera. Whether it is because there were so many of them made and they are considered worth repairing or whether they are so fragile I don't know. The G3 designation means Canon made some quality improvements the middle of their production run. My fingers are crossed. Cheers

We're planning to rent a car and head for the countryside. If we go to Paris at all it will be the last few days. Also I was hoping to avoid the x-ray machines. I won't be using so many rolls that the cost difference will be too high. I understand there are efforts to get the Euro closer to the dollar because French and German exports are suffering.

I've never used one but the Olympus stylus has good reviews by other users. It is small, I think weather resistant, and is auto focus. It is also very light and closes up to a clam like shape which should be good on a long hike. Cheers

I am tentatively planning a trip to France in late spring and have two

questions.

Are there shops at major Paris airports where I can buy Kodachrome?

Does the price of Kodachrome in France still include processing (with

mailers included) and will they mail the processed slide to a USA address?

Thanks in advance for any info.

Charlie

Canonet 28 also 48mm.

To add another example, digital car radios drift with time and cannot be fine tuned. The older radios with variable capacitors could always be tweaked with the tuning knob and the manual buttons reset to match.

I am not an optical engineer but I think camera lenses make poor enlarger lenses because they have a spherical field of focus. Enlarger lenses need a flat field of focus- flat film to flat print paper.

Canonets will run on #675 zinc/air hearing aid cells - no adjustment needed. But any old camera with a built in meter is a risky proposition.

Think of a handheld meter with a straight mechanical camera like a Retina, a Werra, a Contessa, etc

I have no idea myself how to answer the following question but maybe you could do some research. Will your customers want negatives or digital originals as well as prints?

And not lets forget slides. On screen they can easily be 3ft x 4ft.

Stay away from SLR's. You will find they are bulky, noisy, shaky and will restrict your vision too much to frame a picture properly. Find a Canon or Olympus or Minolta rangefinder on E-Bay and go from there.

I think if a country with a history of religious persecution by the "official" religion of all other religions such as catholic France in the middle ages or Afghanastan during the Taliban regime decides to ban all overt symbols of religion it is understandable. If your religion is in your heart you don't need it on a billboard.

Also the thicker the stackup of glass in front of the film, the less difference (contrast) there is between the lightest and darkest parts of an image.

When using old Weston meters you should read the instructions for your meter to see if it uses ASA or Weston film speed ratings . I have a Weston Master II which uses Weston speed ratings which as I remember are 80% of ASA ratings - 100 ASA=80 Weston. I don't know when, if ever, they started using ASA ratings. Cheers

I agree with the above with some modification. New products come along when marketing figures out how to hype them and not all new products are improvements. For example, digitally tuned radios. As the radio ages the circuitry drifts and reception gets worse. With an analogue radio you could always fine tune by turning the knob, now you jump an increment which is too big. Also you can't preset a frequency, if you can't receive the station, you can't preset a button. End of rant.

After years of using all manual cameras (Retina's, Leica) I started including an Oly 35 RC with shutter priority AE. In unusual conditions I use it manually. In general I would say AE is OK and it does free you up

to work more quickly.

Do you REALLY REALLY REALLY need more than the stylus? Take it as a challenge!

I have also been looking for a fixed lens digital (hopefully with no more choices to be made than with a Leica). I think the photo mag reviewers are partly to blame. Everyone talks about megapixels but not one of them relates it to lens quality or even tests the lenses themselves.

I have been interested in the Canon SD10 and the Canon website shows several examples of photos which look pretty good to me. However it only ouputs jpg format.

What I really want is a digital Retina that I can slip in my pocket and will be resisant to a certain amount of dampness and abuse.

Canoscan D2400U will handle MF negs or slides.

George Eastman had it right when he said "You press the button, we do the rest". Dropping it in the mailbox is the only manipulation allowed.

Retro film for retro cameras

I guess she stopped to let you take the picture without intruding, not realizing that she really was in the field of view. Sorry to be so unromantic.

Looking at the paving blocks I don't see any sharp plane of focus. It may be the scanner. Cheers

There is a downloadable manual for your camera at http://www.kyphoto.com/classics/instructionmanuals.html.

Good luck