User_4136860
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An excellent high key portrait of a beautiful girl Bjorn, I teach photographic portraiture for a living and the only criticism I have is there are two catchlights in each of the sitter's eyes from the lights, the left hand one of each needs to be retouched out. -
In my opinion the best canon FD cameras are the F series ( the original F1, F1n, New F1 and EF )
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<p>"A" below the shutter release button isn't for "automatic" it's for advance, and "S" is for self timer.</p>
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<p>As far as I remember all the range of Canon FD lenses were coated to have a matching colour balance based on the FD 50mm f1.4 standard reference lens.</p>
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<p>I have had one for about twenty years and the optical quality is very good but the build quality isn't it's rather plasticy, however this needs to be weighed against the fact that it's an extremely useful swiss army knife of a lens that's ideal as a walk around lens.</p>
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<p>It depends on who is using them.</p>
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Canon nFD 17mm f4 very bad performance?
User_4136860 replied to jano_sterzing's topic in Canon FD Mount
<p>I have been using FDn lenses professionally for about thirty years I bought my DFDn 17mm f4 lens new and it's an excellent ultra wide angle lens but the problem of buying second hand after all these years is you have no way of knowing it's history, and it sounds to me as if some ham fisted amateur repairer has had it apart on his kitchen table and ruined the collimation, because any idiot can dismantle a lens, but to reassemble it correctly and ensure all the elements are parallel to each other and line up to the same central datum line requires the use of an optical bench, and a lazer beam shining through the lens elements to ensure they line up correctly which is a job for for a camera technician.</p> -
<p>I have almost all the Canon FD range of cameras including the F1n, and New F1 and the EF has the smoothest wind on and shutter operation of all of them.</p>
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<p>In my opinion the best "bang for your buck" in the Canon FD 50mm lens range is the 50mm f1.4.</p>
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Congratulations Salvadore this is a lovely portrait the lighting and the sitters expression are perfect, however if I may suggest the composition could be improved by cropping off the top of the frame to just above her head and cropping off the bottom of the frame to just above her hands to get rid of that distracting pink piece of cloth and her cut off hands to concentrate the image and make it a horizontal picture rather than a vertical one. -
RB67 vs Nikon 35mm film - my results maybe 2 stops down aperture?
User_4136860 replied to RaymondC's topic in Medium Format
<p>A Mamiya 6X7 camera RB or RZ will blow any 35mm SLR out of the water for producing photo technical quality.</p> -
<p>Rick, the " glossy piano black finish" is a common term that isn't just applied to piano's, but also other products like hi-fi speakers that are french polished to a deep black glossy finish. </p>
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<p>I love the glossy piano black finish on My EF, and F1n, I also have an A1 that I've never liked.</p>
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<p>Whatever Canon FD lens was used on it the X-Pro1 isn't a Canon FD camera.</p>
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Hasselblad 503 CW and CFV-50C for studio use
User_4136860 replied to simon_souris's topic in Medium Format
<p>A 50mm lens on medium format is a wide angle lens and far too short for portraiture unless you want your sitters to look like W.C.Fields , or Jimmy Durante, I suggest you consider getting a 150 mm f4 Zeiss Sonnar lens. </p>
