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Re: Canon has sold its last film camera

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Post by anthonybsd » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 8:31 PM UTC

cptskippy wrote: post #116

stan_rogers wrote: post #100

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Yessir. They were first to break compatibility, immediately (ish) after Minolta did it.

True and his transgression was an easy one to make because most people will say "Mi..who?" They merged with Konica sometime in the early 2000s and exited the camera market. Minolta was never considered more than a prosumer camera maker, it's cameras lacked many essential features that professional photographers demanded in their SLRs.

Right you are :). Actually at some point in the 90s I did drool over Minolta Maxxum, mostly because of crazy 1/12000 shutter speed, and flash sync speed of 1/300. Completely forgot about them. I guess I also forgot about Yashica which had a dubious advantage of AF and being able to mount manual Contax lenses.

Re: Canon has sold its last film camera

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Post by ghostly_s » Mon, Jun 04, 2018, 11:06 PM UTC

CarVac wrote: post #99

ghostly_s wrote: post #63

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Many of the XF lenses and cameras are nearly all-metal construction, also. Great quality gear.

They're all metal on the outside, but certainly not on the inside. Not that that's a bad thing. But the tactile experience is a long way from the old actually-all-metal cameras and lenses. I was sorely disappointed the first time I held a Fuji X series camera.

I would encourage you to check out more of the range. They vary quite a bit from the same plastic-y crap with vintage styling and some sincerely robust construction. I've been shooting on an X-E1 for several years now and I treat it like dirt, granted it's not quite like the good old days, but it's stood up admirably compared to the Minolta 35mm I was treating like dirt prior. (Coincidentally, that one's also an XE-1...brothers separated by 40 years.)

I'll agree with you though on the control interface for the lenses. I still often shoot my manual-focus Minolta lenses on the Fuji. The drive-by-wire focus rings just can't compare (seems Fuji thinks the mark of quality is stiffness when it's really about responsiveness) and the aperture ring situation is all over the map in the XF line. I sorely wish someone would revive those delightful knurled rubberized focus rings; but alas, I guess they've all decided "surely no-one really uses these?"

Re: Canon has sold its last film camera

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Post by splintercell » Tue, Jun 05, 2018, 12:11 AM UTC

anta40 wrote: post #157

splintercell wrote: post #154

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Hasselblad is like Montblanc of fountain pens, or Glock for handguns, at the end of the day, there is a leader in any field and they get exponentially high attention (because everyone can name that one leading brand name in any field), so they just charge that much more. At the end of the day Hasselblad is only 6x6 (i.e the negative size), but there are many bigger format (in medium format) cameras available like Mam…

Hasselblad is nice, and fortunately not that expensive these days (probably Leica gears are still costlier :p ) If you are looking for the ultimate medium format system camera, the obvious answer is Fuji GX680. It's waay bigger than the Hassy, and you can also put digital backs on it. The only downside is it's electronic camera, not mechanical.

I have a GW690II, have you used that one? Do you know how does it compare with GX680?