1.4 seconds at 1000 ISO 1.7 aperture.
Point and shoot.
Unedited straight out the camera.
How Dey Do Dat?
Point and shoot.
Unedited straight out the camera.
How Dey Do Dat?
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Funnily enough, I just picked up my Fuji XE-1 with the XF 90mm f/2 lens on it, had to swap battery and reconfig because it's been so long since I used it. I'd forgotten how astonishingly good the image quality is, and it's a 2012 camera with 2015 lens.
Modern smartphone foo is amazing and the dynamic range is unbeatable... but old tech can still wow me.
Modern smartphone foo is amazing and the dynamic range is unbeatable... but old tech can still wow me.
My main camera is an Oly E-M1.2 with lots of lenses.
What is staggering about the new iPhone is the camera selected an almost one and a half second exposure at 1000 ISO and it has to be only optically stabilized.
My M1.2 could have taken that shot, but at higher ISO and a faster shutter speed.
If you blew it up large it might look bad.
But they’ve got the pocket cameras on the run.
I bought this a few weeks ago:
Yes, it’s film.
Yes, it’s film.
I shoot everything from a phone camera up to 8x10 film. The great thing about phone cameras is that people who wouldn't have bothered taking a camera with them in the past now always have a camera with them, so we get to see so many things that wouldn't have been photographed before.
The advances in image processing software make pictures that were difficult, if not impossible, to capture in the past downright easy.
The advances in image processing software make pictures that were difficult, if not impossible, to capture in the past downright easy.
Hah brilliant, I have a Mk I version. That lens is so good, the resolution is amazing.
Apparently, these were very popular with tour bus operators; you could get a 50 codger group shot and pick out the faces for memento sale as follow up.
If the phone had been on the same "plane" as the building you wouldn't have experienced the parallel convergence. But, that's something to be aware of with any camera. A PC (perspective Control) lens can usually help with that or simply moving back from the subject might alleviate it. Such are invaluable when shooting architecture.
Some post-shoot software can also cope well with parallel convergence.
A lot of serious shooters have ditched their "grab" camera in favor of phone cameras.
I’ve had my iPhone pix run full bleed in magazines and nobody was the wiser.
The only downsides are:
The lens protrudes into the viewfinder view.
No lightmeter.
I really wish there was a rangefinder 6x9 with a wider lens. The graflex XL will cam to a 58mm, but you need a separate auxiliary viewfinder, with it’s accompanying parallex error.
The Fujica G690 series were the original "Texas Leicas," with interchangeable lenses available from 50mm to 180mm. They're not easy to find and generally expensive, but they're out there.
The 50mm lens is regarded as being one of the best made for that system, so unlike a lot of other medium format systems you don't have to sacrifice quality to shoot wide.
Just looked it up.
About $1300 for the lens and finder. Camera body is inexpensive, starting under $300. So a minimum of $1600.
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Sadly, no. To the best of my knowledge the only way to shoot wide with accurate framing in medium format is to use an SLR. (Or a medium format view camera,, if you're a glutton for punishment.)
In truth, I already own what I consider to be the most user-friendly professional camera ever made, the Canon R Series (R5, in my case). I too have used everything from pinhole cameras to 8x10, and the R5 requires less attention from the user than any other camera I've ever used. It is the fastest functioning camera I've ever used, from picking it up, to in focus and properly exposed image acquisition. Of course, almost everything that I photograph is fast-moving, but at 45MP, the images already rival 6x9, which is amazing. I still have a late-model rangefinder 4x5 Crown Graphic with a 135mm, and I've thought about getting a 90mm and a 6x12 back, but I'm not sure when I'd be motivated to use it. I like the technical and equipment side of photography, but I'm really there to capture moments, not count megapixels. I think this is really a nostalgic yearning on my part, from my teen years of yearning for cameras that matched my eyes and brains field of view. Cameras that I couldn't afford at the time.
Does the viewer care what camera or film was used. No. So why handicap the making of pictures with clunky gear? Romanticism is the only answer, and that doesn't necessarily translate to better pictures.
It did feel nice to load a roll of 120, after a 22 year hiatus, though!
Here's a gallery of the kind of work that I do for one of my clients (PW is "PM", without the quotes). Could I have accomplished this on film? Absolutely not.
I'm not a big tech guy and plan on using my current iPhone until it completely stops working... but that is pretty impressive for point-and-shoot night photography.
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I'm not a "digital vs. film" guy. I shoot both and choose the tool I think most appropriate for me. People? Digital (mirrorless these days) all the way. A black and white landscape that I really want to nail, and am willing to invest time in? Large format film (which forces me to slow down and be contemplative*). Out-and-about with no goals in mind? The phone's always ready to go.
* Yup, I tried being slow and contemplative with a DSLR (when those were new in the world) and I just can't do it. The temptation to take hundreds of images of the scene in the hope that one of them is the image I want is too great. I never claimed to be a strong-willed man.
There's great work in that gallery, and the tools you chose were perfect for it.
I'm not a "digital vs. film" guy. I shoot both and choose the tool I think most appropriate for me. People? Digital (mirrorless these days) all the way. A black and white landscape that I really want to nail, and am willing to invest time in? Large format film (which forces me to slow down and be contemplative*). Out-and-about with no goals in mind? The phone's always ready to go.
* Yup, I tried being slow and contemplative with a DSLR (when those were new in the world) and I just can't do it. The temptation to take hundreds of images of the scene in the hope that one of them is the image I want is too great. I never claimed to be a strong-willed man.
I just find the whole view camera thing to be upside down and backwards.