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True,but I'm more likely to have my camera ready and turned on. And my phone takes a minute or more to come on when I turn it on.Cell phones have come a long way. Just a quick photo when out in the woods for example.
Well, I have my 'phone wwith me in my shirt pocket but it is turned off. When I fish it out and turn it on, by the time the 'phone is ready, the opportunity has left the scene. My cell 'phone is primarily for emergency use only. Very few people have my cell 'phone number, so it stays stashed away.
That last picture is beautifulEarly on, I learned one cannot make photos like this with a Kodak Brownie or Instamatic:
Or like this:
Or this:
And especially like this:
Worth a ransom to me.......................
Bob Wright
Yep, I think it had to do with the size of the sensor.... but then they fixed that but by that time they had redone all the lenses.. and then now the DSLR is old school it seems and everything is going to the mirrorless cameras.... for those that don't understand... for years the pro camera was a 35mm SLR which stood for Single Lens Reflex... you looked through the view finder of the camera and through a mirror the lens ... and the lens you could change out in a few seconds.... when you tripped the shutter the lends flipped up just before the shutter opened... the mechanics of this were pretty amazing if you think about it when you are using a 1-2,000 of a second shutter speed. Digital SLR's were the same just with no film but were limited to the sensor that captured the picture behind the 'shutter'. Good professional cameras can do everything the old film cameras could do... manipulate the f-stops and shutter speed and actual 'film speed' as well as so much more I've never been able to figure it out. My semi-pro DSLR, a Nikon D7100, is now old school and it came with a 400 page instruction book.
Careful scratching your nose with tongs in rubber gloves...
Planned obsolescence, and prolly a corporate directive explicitely against using anybodys old lenses. Gave them as much of a slow start as their prices.
SLR tech is over 150 years old, interchangeable lens sets predate ww1, pentaprism just after ww2. I had a fun lil prewar exacta which i gave a niece who, like her father, prefers to have an old film camera to mess about with.
I hear you, Bob, but with your fanbase, you need to keep that phone on so that you can get that incoming call from an adoring fan or someone wanting an interview. Heck, you may even get a call from Publisher's Clearing House telling you you've won the "big one."
Pentax still uses the same basic "K" mount on their DSLRs that they have been using since 1975. It has been updated many times but you can still use your old "K" "M" "A" "FA" etc lenses on the digital bodies. The only limitations are all the newer features don't work on the newer bodies with the older lenses. But, because the digital sensors are smaller than the 35mm film area the effective focal length increases by 50%. A 50mm lens covers the same area as a 75mm, my old "K" 135-600mm lens is now a 200-900mm lens but I have to manually set the focus and set the aperture and shutter speed.
Such vast possibilities, yet with half-vast equipment.
I'm under the impression that most older Nikon lenses have the same backward compatibility but only to the limits of the old lenses. In my case I was a Canon shooter so I had to re-acquire my lens stash for my Nikon DSLR.
