#Nikkormat film camera

[simonh]

000097260021-edit by Simon Birky Hartmann Via Flickr: 07/19/2023 09:17am 1/250 f3.5 old truck

[o1ive-tree]

Phoenix 200 - Solo Jazz workshop - 07.07.24

[new--tomorrows]

Out of curiosity, what got you into photography and what would be your advice to someone wanting to get into it or who is just starting out?

My old man helped me get into photography with regards to building the habit, providing the starting materials (god bless the Nikkormat FT-2) and teaching the basics, but candidly what's made photography a major part of my life is using it as a mechanism to fight back against some pretty gnarly seasonal depression. Having a roll of pictures showing that the last year wasn't wasted, that I saw things and did things, and using that and journalling as a strategy to quantify and qualify the life I'm living and remind myself that in my own way I'm very lucky and living well in terms of my values has rendered those two activities the main bulwarks against the winters. In terms of advice on how to take pictures--a much more fun topic--I've got to disclaim that I'm still not convinced I'm actually a technically good photographer. The secret seems to be just being willing to carry the camera places that other people won't. When I'm driving, that camera is riding shotgun in the passenger seat like I'm running a stagecoach, and while I get a little flak from coworkers for backpacking with the dead weight on my hip it tends to pay off over time. But itemizing the advice:

do not try and take pictures that other people are taking: generally, avoid viewpoints and crowds. Those pictures already exist, and barring remarkable lighting they're really not much more than an exercise in knowing how to operate the camera.

don't be afraid to carry absurd lenses. I love high mag lenses; I've got stuff that gives me 800-1000mm and an untested lens that could give me 1600mm. You can, conceptually, use up to about 800-1000mm by hand, but it helps to lean up against something, learn to slow your heart rate and breathing, and try and speedrun that monestary life in order to acquire these skills in a useful degree.

use lenses that don't make sense. Forcing yourself to use different lenses for a place you've done before makes you see different opportunities for pictures, which in turn changes how you perceive your world, which is the whole point of paying attention to anything anywhere at anytime.

remember that anything, from a certain angle or in a certain light, can be ghastly and/or beautiful, and play with that.

don't over process your pictures. I pretty much only clean up crap if it's on the lens, because there's a lot of dust out there and I lose my lens caps painfully often.

with few exceptions, keep your controls manual. do not let the machine think for you. (this is true for more things in life than photography). I cheat only with regards to the autofocus when birding, because I do not have superhuman reflexes, but otherwise you always want to be thinking about what variables you want.

don't be bothered by bad pictures. The transition from film to digital was a gamechanger for me, because it let me take a lot more risks when I'm not paying money for every picture I take. For a while there, my photo quality dropped, because I could machine gun it and just spray and pray, but it comes back over time and now I feel like my skillset is pretty respectable. For difficult shots with difficult lenses, don't be surprised by a 5% success rate. In point of fact, that's pretty good.

I'm still wrestling with this one: start with the low magnification and close range from there. I instinctively want to go to the high end of my zoom the second I see that bird or that bear or whathave you, but that adds time to acquiring the target and it can move out of position on you in that time. This one drives me nuts.

lastly, old analog lenses are your friends. I've got a Soviet copy of a German lens with an adaptor ring that mounts onto a Japanese digital camera and it gives pictures that feel like heaven. Barely use the thing accordingly, it's more or less cheating emotionally on the viewer, but pawn shops and such have really interesting options. Explore these.

[graypixllc]

Filming a doc at the UMBC cage. John being interviewed by Nardy, Boots on camera, and Trish doing script. Cannot remember the sound guy's name. Nikkormat, 24mm. Kodak TRI-X. NIK

[alexmmx]

Next to Golden Gate Park, as me, and my friend Bonnie were walking, and photographing, as I seen this truck, and it was all Yellow, but what interest me was the Door Handle, and as the rust is showing that the Handle Said "RELANCE". I enter the image at the Nikon Photo Contest for 1977, did not win but I did get the program of the winners as in my view it was a ripoff as one of the rules is that images HAS TO BE SHOT WITH A NIKON CAMERA, and only one person was a the program as he use a Pentax camera, and shot was good.

Camera - Nikon - Nikkormat Ftn with a 50mm F/2.0 Nikkor lens Film - Kodak Kodachrome 64

[paincorpsrarefinds]

Nikon Nikkormat FTN 35mm SLR Film Camera Body Only

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[poltrack]

Analog Photography - Pacific Coast

Photos taken on the West Coast in 1971 or was it 1972?

Shooting with film My favorite film camera, a Nikkormat SLR with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens I started being serious about taking photos when I was about 12. I used lawn mowing earnings to get myself an East German Praktica SLR in the early 1960s. My eyes were better then, I could use the split circle manual focus and didn’t mind manually setting shutter speed and aperture. Film was limiting…

[magic-fruit-t]

[melburnnegatives]

Spotted this on the way to drop my film

Off today so I used my

Last two frames to get

These. Insta @tano.log

[hikkoworks]

Chloe, 2016 — Anthony Merriweather

IG: @hikkoworks

[nismoan]

the flower of light

[simonh]

000060150025-edit by Simon Hartmann Via Flickr: 10/15/2023 12:20pm 1/30 f16 greenery 41.22678° N, 81.50847° W

[o1ive-tree]

Test roll on my new camera. Shot on my (NEW!!!) Nikkormat with fp4 film. Documenting my average morning on the way to, and at, school.

[tapetyu]

Nikomat EL (1972)

単に名前が気に入ったという事と、価格が安かったので購入。 色違いとはいえ同じ機種を２台必要だろうか？と悩みましたが、後々使用していく中で壊れてしまった場合、可能であればどちらかをニコイチ修理用の部品取りとして使えるかもしれないという甘い考えで購入しました。 まぁ、クラシックカメラというにはまだまだ新しく、今後いきなり価値が上がってプレミアが付くような機種ではありませんが、近代のカメラの歴史を語るうえで(特にnikonに関しての)は、たぶん必ずその名前が出てくる機種ではあると思います。と言うか、個人的にカメラその物の価値とか性能等に関しては全くとは言いませんが、ほぼ関心がありません。

現時点では２台共にフィルムを入れれば撮影できる状態なので���いうちにでも撮影に持ち出してみようと思います。

それにしてもRICOH999が欲しい…

[graypixllc]

I’ve shot with Nikkormats since 1974. My last one, I’ve had 4 of them, went down in 2014. I’ve had a lot of time to use and feel other brands from those manufacturing years, and the Nikkormat is the best. The shutter speed on the lens is the bomb. I can see the split image focus shooting night photography better than the Canon FTB and the Pentax K1000. Canon recently introduced a ring on their lenses that you can assign. (Pick shutter speeds!!) Kodak TRI-X. NIK Silver Efex 

[alexmmx]

At City College as my friends were doing lunch break at the College Cafeteria as I took this shot of my friend Loretta. She has been a good friend, went to her wedding, and was happy when I took their photo, and very photogenic face.

Camera - Nikon - Nikkormat Ftn with a 50mm F/2.0 Nikkor lens Film - Ilford FP4 125 ISO B/W Film