Review your own photo kit
Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 7:44 amSo what kind of camera / cameras do you use, what are the good and bad points of it / them
I'll start off with mine:
I own 3 useable cameras, and have used about 5 different types in total
Cams i've used, first three are / were owned by my parents
1: Half frame Canon... Has been that long ago that i only remember that the thing had a fixed speed shutter and those icons on the distance scale. Door latch broke on this one but it might be still around hidden in a box somewhere
2: All-auto Minolta... with DX detectors, built-in flash and so on... Large enough for my hands, usually doing exactly what it should do. Was dropped on the floor so the zoom locked up and discarded as it was unrepairable.
So now the real review stuff
3: Canon powershot 520... 5 megapixel digital.
Good points:
[*]Small and light
[*]Large preview screen
Bad points:
[*]Too small for my hands (fingers hanging over the flash or autofocus sensor)
[*]Flash is completely useless as it is too small to make a difference.
[*]Autofocus doesn't always do what it should do.
[*]Preview screen resolution not good enough to see how the picture will turn out
[*]Impossible to look at the viewscreen when the sun is in the wrong location
[*]Hates weird light conditions
[*]Useless viewfinder (you can turn the screen off but you lose all info with that)
[*]Slow shooting rate when using flash
4 Praktica MTL (now disposed of... unrepairable)
Good points: Ergonomics, hot shoe
Bad points: weight, shutter shake (up-and-down movement of the shutter goes together with the mirror), shutter springs died.
5: Fed 4B... 1968 vintage rangefinder
Good points
[*]Reactions of the public
[*]Overall balance
[*]Mint condition
[*]Loads of shutter speeds... from 1/500 to 1/1
Bad points
[*]Weight (900+ grams)
[*]Degraded focus lubricants make turing the lens very heavy when its cold
[*]Parralax problems when doing close ups
[*]No hot shoe
[*]No belt attachments on the body
6: Zenit 122
Good points
[*]Size
[*]M42 has interesting cheap lenses
[*]Belt clamps on the chassis
[*]Hot shoe
Bad points
[*]Balance is off... it tends to tilt down as the lens-to-body weight ration is a little strange because they replaced parts of the original steel body (Zenit 12) with plastic.
[*]Loud shutter and mirror
[*]Shutter speeds (1/500-1/30 and manual)
I'll start off with mine:
I own 3 useable cameras, and have used about 5 different types in total
Cams i've used, first three are / were owned by my parents
1: Half frame Canon... Has been that long ago that i only remember that the thing had a fixed speed shutter and those icons on the distance scale. Door latch broke on this one but it might be still around hidden in a box somewhere
2: All-auto Minolta... with DX detectors, built-in flash and so on... Large enough for my hands, usually doing exactly what it should do. Was dropped on the floor so the zoom locked up and discarded as it was unrepairable.
So now the real review stuff
3: Canon powershot 520... 5 megapixel digital.
Good points:
[*]Small and light
[*]Large preview screen
Bad points:
[*]Too small for my hands (fingers hanging over the flash or autofocus sensor)
[*]Flash is completely useless as it is too small to make a difference.
[*]Autofocus doesn't always do what it should do.
[*]Preview screen resolution not good enough to see how the picture will turn out
[*]Impossible to look at the viewscreen when the sun is in the wrong location
[*]Hates weird light conditions
[*]Useless viewfinder (you can turn the screen off but you lose all info with that)
[*]Slow shooting rate when using flash
4 Praktica MTL (now disposed of... unrepairable)
Good points: Ergonomics, hot shoe
Bad points: weight, shutter shake (up-and-down movement of the shutter goes together with the mirror), shutter springs died.
5: Fed 4B... 1968 vintage rangefinder
Good points
[*]Reactions of the public
[*]Overall balance
[*]Mint condition
[*]Loads of shutter speeds... from 1/500 to 1/1
Bad points
[*]Weight (900+ grams)
[*]Degraded focus lubricants make turing the lens very heavy when its cold
[*]Parralax problems when doing close ups
[*]No hot shoe
[*]No belt attachments on the body
6: Zenit 122
Good points
[*]Size
[*]M42 has interesting cheap lenses
[*]Belt clamps on the chassis
[*]Hot shoe
Bad points
[*]Balance is off... it tends to tilt down as the lens-to-body weight ration is a little strange because they replaced parts of the original steel body (Zenit 12) with plastic.
[*]Loud shutter and mirror
[*]Shutter speeds (1/500-1/30 and manual)
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