Is still my Hasselblad 500CM. I still do shoot a lot of film, occasionally in 35mm but the quality in medium format simply cannot be beat. When I am away from home and can't print the images, I scan them with a Nikon Super Cool Scan 8000. The negatives, scanned at 4000 dpi, can be as large as 700MB!
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My favorite film camera.......
#1
Posted 30 June 2020 - 03:56 PM
#2
Posted 15 August 2020 - 12:03 PM
My favorite has to be my Olympus OM-4 Ti. I still have it with the smallest lens being one for the bellows and up to the 500MM mirror lens. Film is almost impossible to find and have it processed. I cried when Kodak dropped Kodachrome. How many of you have seen a huge enlargement from Kodachrome 25 directly on to Cibachrome?
#3
Posted 21 September 2020 - 01:57 PM
Is still my Hasselblad 500CM. I still do shoot a lot of film, occasionally in 35mm but the quality in medium format simply cannot be beat. When I am away from home and can't print the images, I scan them with a Nikon Super Cool Scan 8000. The negatives, scanned at 4000 dpi, can be as large as 700MB!
I used to have a Mamiya 645J used to love using it, the cost of film for it really slowed your photography down and made you think about each shutter press (at around £1 GBP per shot when film cost and processing was added together) I sold it to a wedding photographer friend. I do miss it sometimes!
#4
Posted 30 September 2020 - 06:33 PM
My favourite that I really used a lot was my old Canon F1, which I sold when I went digital. A lovely camera, and the rotating sports finder was amazingly good for anyone who wears glasses or needed to use the camera at low level or on a microscope occasionally - since I was doing a lot of nature and scientific photography I tended to use that capability a lot.
My favourite that I liked but could never justify was an Olympus Pen FT, the old half-frame SLR. It was a lovely little camera, but I hadn't really taken on the implications of the image size when I bought it. Twice as much enlargement for any given print size, slides were about a quarter as bright as full frame when projected to the same size, and so forth. I went through three or four films then sold it on.
#5
Posted 30 September 2020 - 07:14 PM
#6
Posted 06 December 2020 - 11:41 AM
The only film cameras that I still use are a Hasselblad 500CM and a Nikon SP. However, my favorite from past use is a Nikon F3. I should look around for a nice example and a couple lenses.
#7
Posted 06 December 2020 - 03:03 PM
F4E in 35 mm, Rollei 6008i in 6x6 and the Pentax 67 II in 6x7. I do miss the 4x5 and 8x10 in view cameras for the quality of the large film, but they were cumbersome beasts on location.
#8
Posted 23 August 2021 - 10:33 AM
A little late but for me it's gotta be the Canon F-1n. I like it so much that I have two.