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Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
 09/24/2003 01:14:12 PM · #26
Yashica has very inexpensive SLR's. And they share the lens mount Contax, so if you really like film, you can upgrade to a one of the finest camera systems, and still use the lenses. Contax even has a model, the AX, that auto-focuses with the manual focus lenses.
Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
 09/24/2003 01:25:31 PM · #27
I received a Ricoh KR-5 for my 13th Birthday, what a camera, fully manual inexpensive. The body doesn't matter as much as the lense as far as I'm concerned. I've had a Nikon 6006 for a while now and have spent alot of money trying to repair a chip problem, it is moody, sometimes it just turns itself off and wont turn back on, arrgh, no one can figure it out.
What does the Canon ae-1 run? Is it fully manual?
Fujifilm FinePix E510 Zoom
 09/24/2003 01:55:34 PM · #28
Originally posted by Paige:
I received a Ricoh KR-5 for my 13th Birthday, what a camera, fully manual inexpensive. The body doesn't matter as much as the lense as far as I'm concerned. I've had a Nikon 6006 for a while now and have spent alot of money trying to repair a chip problem, it is moody, sometimes it just turns itself off and wont turn back on, arrgh, no one can figure it out.
What does the Canon ae-1 run? Is it fully manual?


It's manual, but it has an automatic feature too. I haven't had mine very long (and it needs new light seals... -sigh-) so I don't know too much about it.
OM System OM-1
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
 09/24/2003 02:04:19 PM · #29
Originally posted by hgpayne:
Originally posted by WhidbeyPix:
I vote for the Canon AE-1.
I still use mine, and it's over 25 years old. Strong, dependable, fully manual and the 50mm F1.8 lens it comes with is awesome even in low lighting situations. If I could keep the body but put a 35mm CCD or CMOS sensor in it instead of film, I'd be so happy... It would probably easily outperform some of the $2000 cameras on the market today.


I remember reading about a digital "film" like camera you dropped into the film area of your regular 35mm camera and you could shoot digital pictures. I just did a search and came up dry though -- I don't think these things exist any more. I'm not sure how well they performed either. But... they let you use your "regular" camera to shoot digital.


I believe that when digital was new, Nikon had something like that for the F3 or maybe the F4. I think they called it a digital back. You removed the back and the motordrive and it attached to the camera that way. I belive that you needed a PC connected to view the images (no LCD) and that the resolution was very poor by today's standards. Oh yeah, it was also ungodly expensive.
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