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After reading reviews and playing with them if you don't need RAW then get a Canon A80.

Partial metal body, little chromatic abberations when taking pictures. Goes for 279 on

amazon.com

I have used an F3 and a N80 as i owned one and borrowed the other. The manual focus

on my N80 was so touchy and hard to focus that i hated using it in manual focus. If I were

you i'd buy the manual focus as since my N80 was stolen i am gettin an all manual camera

as i liked the feel of them due to them being made of metal and better material then my

plasticy N80.

 

The N80 is a great camera quite, decent focus but i wasn't a fan of the manual focus on it

nor not having an aperture ring but i think that is how most stuff is going nowadays.

 

 

Just my 2 cents.

Welp to make it short. My N80 was stolen and all i have shot in my short years of

photography have been film SLRs. I was planning on going with a Minolta A2 digital but

the cost is a tad high and the performance at high isos with these cameras is not what i

would like.

 

I have gotten very interest in rangefinders in the past week or two and the bessa R is 400

from cameraquest with a 35mm lens. I have a minolta dimage scan dual III and it is not

the best scanner by far but i would get a better one eventually. I like street photography

but am a general all around photographer and shoot lots of nature and sports

photography too. Do you guys think a bessa R would be a good choice for me? I would

like to have the instantness of digital but i think i would miss film and the performance is

not as good as i would like.

 

 

Any opinions are much appreciated.

 

Thank you

Thanks for the answers i just wanted to see what kind you guys tended to use if most of

the crowd used RFs or what. I do like the results i have seen from the A2 and i hopefully

will be buying it real soon.

I was wondering what kinds of cameras the general street photographers that post in here

use. I had a nikon n80 i was using for a year but it was stolen so i am looking at the

MInolta A2 digital camera but still considering other cameras. I really would love a

rangefinder but i can not afford a contax g2 or a leica. Just wondering what kind of

cameras you all generally used?

 

Thanks

Well i am hoping that i get a response to this question. I just ordered from KEH a yashica

T2 camera and i saw a picture on ebay of someone selling one and it looks totally different

from the contax T2. I was expecting them to be the game camera just a different lens on

it but same operations. My sister recommended the yashica as it is the same as a contax

for the most part.

 

Anyone know?

I am in the market for an SLR since i have to give my mom her N6006 back. She said

she will give me her Quantaray 28-80 with f 3.5-5.6 lens to use and I want to get a

nikon 50mm f1.8 prime and a better zoom later. I have never changed the ISO of my

film and don't see myself doing it anytime soon. On the n75 is it a pain to hold a

button to switch the aperture?

 

Also, should I just use the quantaray lens then pickup the N75 + Quantaray 28-90

on ritzcamera.com or the 28-85 g type on adorama? Or just stay with the one i have

and get a better nikon zoom or prime later?

 

I was gonna get a N80 but wanna save some money and get something a tad lighter

and use the extra cash to get a Minolta dual scan III since I plan to just get my film

developed with no prints then scan and print on my printer.

 

Thanks and sorry for all the questions.

Thanks guys what I was asking if you guys thought the Nikon 28-105 f3.5-4.5 was

better than the tamron 28-200 f3.8-5.6. I do alot of street photo like people and do

some sports stuff like biking but i can get closer for that. And then i do the normal

nature, architecture stuff. I think I'll use the quantaray then get the nikon zoom and

another prime or telephoto later.

 

Thanks for the responses more than i got at any other photo forum.

I am getting 500 bucks for graduation and going to buy a Nikon N80 body since I

have to give my mom her N6006 back. I was planning to get the f1.8 50mm nikon

prime lens that is 110. My mom siad she would give me her quantaray 28-80 3.5-

5.6 D type lens. I know it isn't great but all my prints when i get a film scanner are

going to be scanned and printed 11x14 max or put online. Should i go with a 28-

200mm tamron 3.5-5.6 lens or the nikon 28-105 D type that is like 340 bucks? Any

suggestions?

 

Thanks

My negatives were totally clear or had very very faint marks on the center where the objects were. I will try the test when i finish up the roll of film in there. Thanks for all the help guys.

Yeah pretty much lots of my negative have nothing on them or a real real real faint image or outline of something. I have a roll of color fuji 200 in there in which the first half was shot outdoors at the same time as the half that came out in the B&W gonna see how it works and see if i can take it to my local photo store and see if he might know.

 

Thanks

I just aquired a Nikon F3 HP from my uncle with a AF Nikkor 35mm lens. I used some C400 Kodak Commercial B&W film and the first half of it came out bad, every negative is blank or has a very very faint image on it. I used Aperture 2 w/ approximately 1/15-1/60 speed with no tripod indoors. All the pictures I took outdoors on a sunny day (diff time) were all aperture 5.6 to 16 with a shutter spd of 125-2000 and they all came out fine. Could the first half be just because i didn't understand the metering system fully yet or because of my camera?

 

Any help or ideas are appreciated.