Well I just started school a few days ago, and knowing that my Pentax 35mm was broken took it in for repairs. They said that it would cost so much to fix that I should just get a new camera.
id say go for a canon... i have a nikon n70 and it can be a pain in the ass to change the settings... if any of you have one.. you probably know exactly what im talking... that or im just really slow...
I've had a bad experiences with my Nikon 6006, after having owned it for two years it's electronics have gone haywire and malfunctioned numerous times, I've had it to the shop twice to the tune of 300 bucks in "repairs", without the problem being fixed. Meanwhile my 20 year old Ricoh KR5 fully manual works like a charm to this day. Do they even make cameras like that any more?
Meanwhile my 20 year old Ricoh KR5 fully manual works like a charm to this day. Do they even make cameras like that any more?
Leica is one of the last to still make fully manual cameras like that (rangefinder, not slr), but the prices are VERY high. I think the last fully manual SLR from a major maker was the Nikon FM2n, but it's been replaced by something less than spectacular.
Hey, you are asking at a digital camarea site for a film camera advice? Stay away from film! Since I got my first digital cam, far inferior in options to my Canon EOS 10, I have made 3 times the number of pictures that I ever made using film cameras in my whole life (and you don't want to know my age). That is not counting the pictures that I discarded (about 1 in 2-3) due to low-quality, out of focus, what have you. Digital picture taking has changed my life. What school are we talking about? Photo art-school?
I definitely agree on the digital vs film. I wouldn't even look at a "modern" film SLR, but I still love the purity of the old manual 35mm rangefinders and SLRs. Aperture, shutter speed, focus and a brain where all you needed.
I think I bought the 10D because it felt almost as good in my hands and the controls were very intuitive.
Im going to school for photography and I am still a firm believer that film is still better than digital...not for much longer. And you still can't beat the smell of darkroom chemicals. Photoshop smells a little bland to me.
Im sticking with my 707 for digital and for lots of practice shots but I think if I showed up in the darkroom with a memory stick people would look at me funny.
Ive been leaning more towards the Canon anyway and now hearing a bunch of negative things about Nikon makes my decision a little easier.
