I wanted to write a brief blog post to tell my visitors and readers that Matt Denton has a new address for his camera website. You’ll find Matt’s Classic Cameras incredibly useful, and fun. Who is Matt Denton? Matt has a non-photography full-time job but has spent countless hours describing used cameras for everyone at…
Visit a Cheap Antique Store and Purchase a Camera Many towns have a cheap antique store. Keep those stores alive. Find the cheap antique store in your town and buy an old camera from them. When those stores are gone, it will be a lot harder finding old SLRs and rangefinders in your town. Cheap…
My friend Vicci loaned me two cameras to test and review: a Minolta SRT Super and a Nikon FM2. If you live in Chicago and you’d like me to test a valuable camera, I’d be glad to give it a try. By the way, I’ve never even held a Leica camera. The Minolta SRT Super…
I am not a purist, I shoot with both digital and film cameras. But the question needs to be asked? Are film cameras better than digital? Can you tell the difference between 35mm film or digital photos? You decide. Choose your favorite picture. Then research the camera I used for that photo. Some photos were…
I like the feel of this 35-40 year old Minolta SLR. But then I’m a big fan of Japanese SLRs from the 1960’s and 1970’s as you can read from my Canon QL17 review and my Canon FTb review. But today I’m writing about my durable Minolta SRT 100 with its 50mm 1.7 Rokkor lens,…
This will be a longer post, a very long post. But if you enjoy a good story about a fine old camera, sit back and enjoy my blog article today about a 40+ year old Canon QL17 from Saigon. I was always mad at myself for failing to even make an eBay bid on a…
I just had my Canon FTb photos developed and I am delighted with the outcome. Wonderful photos in my opinion for a 40 year old camera. My daughter and I meet for Sunday breakfasts every now and then and on this day I metered and focused on her and then gave the Canon FTb to…
Why do people blog? Is it for joy, money, or both? For this website on film cameras, I blog for the fun of it. Trying Google AdSense One More Time I am turning my Google AdSense ads back “on” for this site. I hope you don’t mind. If Google AdSense pays for 35 mm film…
Am I a bad person because I am an auction sniper on eBay and other places for film cameras? Do you get Better Deals with Auction Sniping? For me, it’s worked out. I remember purchasing a Zeis Ikon Contaflex IV for maybe $12 dollars. That was fun. Purchased in the last 5 seconds. I’ve had…
An old carpenter’s Vivitar camera is re-born, kind of… Quick Vivitar XC-4 Review It’s not a great camera, but it feels like a good camera. If you need a camera for a high school photography class, it will work just fine. The light metering is a little quirky (red lights are bad, green light is good). …