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Originally Posted by Misanthropic Superhero  recalcitrant- thank you! The pros I worked for (pre-digital), rejected a lot of new technology (hey it was shit in the 90's). In fact the big pro I worked for shot national advertising campains with a box camera from the turn of the century, retrofitted with new lenses and film slides (I can load those tricky bastards blind, literally, in a black room). So it's hard to buy when the basics are now behind the curve of technology. It makes me miss my Hasselblad and light rigs. I've never had blur with a fim camera.
ok, the Cannon Eos 5D, holy shit. That is a fucking racehorse. But I know now what to compare to (and what to look for in the pawn shops, I live near a arty college town, their drug habits are my bargin!). I will admit now, I am out of my league, price wise. Is $8k the right price? What can I get for an $800 steady mule?
I was a film holdout for so long (I still love the smell of a darkroom). If I was ever to get back into studio work, then it's back to Hasselblad. But now that I live in the land of postcard picutres, digital is wonderful. I think that a high zoom would be great, because a few months ago I had a great shot of a black bear but it was just out of decent range and I was not going to go closer! |
the 5d is about $3500-4000 here in australia and i'm sure that would be a lot less in the US because the market is bigger. watch though the 5d is about 2 years old and its due for an upgrade to the newer canon censor. so i bet either you could get a better camer for the same price (or cheaper, canons seem to superceed their models at less of a price than the previous) or get a secondhand 5d.
if you don't mind not having a full frame censor then you could get the 20d secondhand for cheap or get the 40d which is the replacement to the 20d (and 30d)
omg hasselblad.
i want a 503cw SO bad but its hard to find on ebay here i guess pros are keeping them because they will not get more than a fraction of what they paid for them when they got them new. we got to play with MF in class and i loved it but it was a paind dealing with the film, trying to get it on the magazine. ahh i am so spoilt with automatic wind on cameras!
i really wanted a hassy over a digital slr becauise i'm not convinced of the tech still (though i agree with those pros on early technology) though its better than before. i'd love to get a hassy and the imacon digital back...but i will drema on cause they're like $30KUS!
i have a darkroom in my laundry..which reminds me i need to be there for folio printing. its not light tight except during darktime so with summer i have to wait til 9pm before i can go in.
what i am sad about is the discontiuance of materials for those of us still in the analogue world....films, paper, etc etc. RIP agfa. RIP minolta. RIP pentax it makes me sick thaty computer companies are getting into the camera business
i really wanted MF but with the next semester being colour and more an dmore labs closing down or making their colour processing for tranny film once to twice a week i am thinking it will just have to be that i get a dslr. i was wanting to hold out until it started to stabilise to where i felt it was technology wise somewhere i would feel i could use the camera for a good several years (which as we know is becoming a rarer thing now that technology companies have taken over the camera business). i think for me i'd be happy with the 5d for a long time cause its at least pro level.
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Originally Posted by InShreds Mmm hmm, it was a looooooooong time ago when I asked for that pic from you, however I still use it from time to time. When I do, I think of you.
Also, my husband has been witnessing our correspondence and he said to tell you that you are God!
This is my husband's website, he has a 40D: The Petparazzi - Pet Photography by Ed Serecky
Check it out. |
you and your husband are too sweet.
oh wow cool pet piucs. your husband has a lot of patience i reckon. i stalk my housemate's cats and man o man you need to have patience and stealth to get good pics and he's managed to get some animals in one shot! how long has he been a photographer for? what does he think of his 40d? i've heard of people who love it. i just want a full frame censor. for instance i borrowed a classmates nikon d70 for my band photos (the digital part of my folio. i got sick of dveloping 3200film and then dealing with scanning so i borrowed her camera). she put her 50mm lens on it but it ended up being about 73mm which was a pain when trying to get a few people in at once. but i know people just buy their lenses knowing this in mind..but i'd just like to have lenses that work the same way on my film as they do on a digislr.
my dream team of cameras would be:
film slr eos 1-v
dslr 1ds mark3 (ok i can dream??!!) failing that the 5d or its successor
hasselblad 503cw
with of course the assorted lenses 50mm, 85mm (portraiture), standard zoom eg 28-80, 24mm, 80-200 (and or the equiv for the hassy) with filters for all.
because she asked for specific information. It comes off as just piping into a conversation without listening to what the conversers are saying. Talking (or in this case) posting for the mere sake of posting. 
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