michael_appleman

<p>I say get the 50mm 1.8 nifty fifty. Your professor may require you to shoot at 50mm anyways, plus it is a portrait lens when mounted on a crop dslr. </p>

<p>Or, you could get an older canon A-1 (or one of the variations, ae-1 and etc.) with a 50mm lens attached for maybe 80-100 bucks, less if you are lucky.</p>

<p>I just processed my first roll of fomapan/arista EDU 100 in 120 earlier this week. It was still quite blue when I pulled it off the reel. I cut it up and put it in my negative binder. Then a few days later I took it out to scan it and it looked significantly less blue. <br>

As for curling it was pretty flat IMO.</p>

<p>It was really shocking pouring out the dev the first time. Holy crap. It looked like I accidentally used window cleaner or mouthwash instead of developer.</p>

<p>This it? <a href="http://tokyocamerastyle.com/">http://tokyocamerastyle.com/</a></p>

<p>Well, same thing with the other body. Guess I'll have to set this lens aside for now. The lens is a 50mm S. Kinda sucks cause I was looking forward to using it for landscapes. Still have an 80mm PS and a 150mm S though.</p>

<p>I doubt its the viewfinder, because this also happens when I manually push the pin in that the camera uses to detect if a viewfinder is attached. It also happens with both finders I have attached. One is a manual metered prism, and the other is the AE prism. With other lenses the camera works perfectly fine. The contacts on the lens appear to be fine. I tried cleaning them all off with an eraser, and there was no change.</p>

<p>I have a 2nd body, I will test it on that this afternoon when I get back from work.</p>

<p>I have a bronica sq-a, and one of my lenses is acting up. When this lens is attached to the camera it will only fire at 1/500. Also, in the viewfinder the battery check light is always lit. If I take the viewfinder off, the battery check light is off. If I press the tiny pin in the front left corner of the viewfinder mount (on the camera), while the viewfinder is removed, the battery check will light up. Also, without the viewfinder the lens works fine. I have confirmed this by selecting a very long shutter speed and listening for the faint click of the shutter closing.</p>

<p>Any idea whats going on? Thanks in advance...</p>

<p>"Angle of view" is exactly what "Effective focal length" means. The problem is no one thinks about the exact angle of view a certain lens has. Tell someone a lens has an angle of view of 30 degrees and you get a blank stare. Tell them its like a such and such mm lens on 35mm film and they will know exactly what you mean.</p>