#Nikon f4

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Savannah by Elia Nedkov

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dylan hatfield - ollie in

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First Film Camera Quick Guide!

I was putting together a list for a partner who's been interested in buying a film camera that can do a little more than his point and shoot and it was recommended to me that I share the picks I sent him!

This is by no means comprehensive but these are the four that come to mind for me. I've kept the options $200 and below (with lens, based on ebay listings) with the idea being if this is your first film camera, or first film SLR, you probably don't want to spend much more than that.

For anyone who's been shooting for a while who has some other options to share please feel free to mention them so nothing gets overlooked!

Nikon F4 ($200)

Pros: It was Nikon's first professional auto focus camera and also has multiple auto exposure modes from full auto, to aperture and shutter speed priority! It has great build quality, Nikons are known to be indestructible. It has advanced metering to help make sure everything in the frame is exposed properly. The F mount has been around for 70 years and counting and has the largest library of lenses available, many of which are fairly inexpensive. It also has the best viewfinder on this list for glasses wearers due to its size!

Cons: It's a tank! It's big and chunky and much like many other auto focus film cameras of the era it has that ugly DSLR look. It has a Swiss army knife worth of features many of which you may never use!

Canon EOS Rebel GII (>$100)

Pros: You can get the body and a lens for under $100 making it the cheapest option on this list! It's capable of auto focus and a number of different exposure modes that let you learn various settings or take pictures with the ease of a point and shoot. The EOS mount lasted for 30+ years so there's a wide variety of lenses across a wide spectrum of prices.

Cons: It's an enthusiast grade camera with consumer grade build quality and a somewhat limited feature set for a late era film SLR --but all the right features are included. It's big, chunky, kinda ugly.

Olympus OM-2 ($150)

Pros: It's really small for a professional camera! It has that classic film SLR look, and it was in FLCL! It's manual focus, but does have some auto exposure tools to assist you. You'll have to dial in aperture to your liking but shutter speed can be determined for you. You can grab one of these with a lens for around $150.

Cons: It will have a steeper learning curve than the auto focus cameras on this list. The OM mount library is pretty limited and while the 50mm lens you probably get with it will be cheap most other focal lengths get a little more pricey due to availability.

Nikon FE ($200)

Pros: Another small manual focus camera with auto exposure features! It uses the F mount so it's an easy system camera to grow into if you think you'll want to experiment with different focal lengths along the way! It's a Nikon so it'll probably outlast us all.

Cons: It's pricier up front than the OM-2 and if you don't think you'll want to experiment with different focal lengths down the line it probably isn't worth it!

Point & Shoot!

If you're looking for a point and shoot my main recommendation is to buy anything that's $50 or less. They all more or less work the same and they're all ticking time bombs of 90s consumer electronic goodness.

Facebook market place is a sadly a great place to find them, and where I got my beloved little Olympus MJU for $20 three years back!

Final Frame

Like I said up top, none of this is definitive! If you find something you think you can grow into that gets you excited to get out and shoot that's the camera for you! The most important thing is to have fun and make some art! Enjoy <3

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Nikon F4

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Ari, 2019

I got this piece of advice from my writing professor in college that has always proven to be effective. Put the work away and give yourself some space. Give yourself the night to sleep on it, a week, a month, or in this case four years. When I took this photograph I was “all in” on a project titled Rituals and Routines for which I had grand plans, then mentally I fell off a cliff and moved on before I could finish. At the time I thought these pictures were beautiful but I didn’t know what to say about them, then four years later having basically put them away since I shot them it’s like I’m seeing this for the first time.

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Adam Abada - Los Angeles 2023

Prints Available Here http://kevinhornography.com/store/adam-abada-church-grind-print

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SH_9913_500T028863-R1-E007-edit by Simon Birky Hartmann Via Flickr: 06/17/2023 03:24pm 1/1000 f8 Sims Park

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London by Brett Sheehan Via Flickr: Nikon F4. Nikkor 50mm F1.2 lens. CineStill 800T 35mm C41 film.

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Kodak TMAX 400 x Nikon | Autumn 2021 - Summer 2022

Kodak TMAX 400 x Nikon | Autumn 2021 – Summer 2022

So this is a bit of an accompaniment piece to my last post as I had to change a roll of film on location to get a few more shots of the Civitan Club building in Smiths Falls. I had been shooting a roll of Kodak TMAX 400 and the roll abruptly ended at 24 frames… I was confounded and confused for a moment thinking my trusty F4 had jammed up or something and then quickly realized after rewinding the…

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Nikon F4 on Fujifilm 200

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You can be someone else

Totem Pole Photo Gallery, Tokyo

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The Opening Salvo, Cheap Glass For NIKKORheads! headache-induced rambling.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Chinese proverb.

Nikon is probably one of the cheapest Camera brands to get into these days. That's mainly due to the fact that the F mount contains some of the most illogically cheap glass ever seen on a system to date! But there really hasn't been anyone trying to make a modern day, comprehensive list of all of the little buggers that exist. This is frankly due to the ever growing fact that there is too many lenses for one person to trouble themselves with because there can only be so many styles, focal lengths and F-stops one can touch on before they themselves become absolutely stone-mad and try to eat the canvas bag that holds your camera. There are people that review them as they come along and itemize them and props to those who can put up with that kind of cheap bullshit. But I’ll not bring Ken Rockwell into this whole charade if I don't have to.

Black-eyed Susans - Nikon D3, Nikkor AF-D 80-200mm F2.8 one touch, ISO 400, F3.2, 1/400 second

With the Glass Problem I have, it seems that i have no real basis to try and hunt for the Good pieces of shiny Circular Goodness on my own. Ken Rockwell can help as a sort of basic bitch barometer but his Certified Hot Takes and Oversaturated images can only carry me so far. The best thing I can do then, Really. Is get grounded and try to cope with what I can get to and throw out the rest as cheap bullshit for the hounds to go after. 1987 and beyond Glass that can actually be worth a Damn. But the method of finding the diamonds in the rough can roughly be equated to going Landmine-Hunting with a sledgehammer.

Forest Corridor. Nikon D3, AF-D Nikkor 18-35mm F3.5-4.5 ED, F9, 35mm, 1/500sec, ISO 640

With all of this and the above rambling, it feels like the best idea to me is to get some grounding on the opening of this Shameful Diary is to itemize the pros and cons of the glass I already have as I step up to get their newer counterparts alongside picking up some of the old, manual AI and AI converted numbers. Why not? It makes perfect sense to me. “Catalog what you know, pick up on what you don't” Maybe Ill Improve in this hobby for once in my life. But the immediate problem that I ran into with that angle is twofold. One; my collection of glass can best be described as “Eclectic” And two, if I really want to wring the potential Max Performance out of these shiny glass cylinders my brain is screaming at me that I should get a camera with a higher megapixel sensor inside of it. This idea gets constantly brought up by the council of mad gerbils that tens to run my inner thoughts, but is immediately shot down by the idea that the camera we would “like to step up to” the D850, does not supersede bills. So its immediately thrown out until I can cope with buying its just-as-capable cousin, the D800.

Dog! Nikon F4S. Ektachrome E100 Before I veer off into any tangents or this manic wave passes over me and ill be left in a catatonic slump. Ill itemize a few of the repeat Photon-Wranglers that will show up here and mention some of the glass I hope to gather and show off. In the vein hopes of becoming a niche internet micro-celebrity on a dead website that had strange porn on it coming out through the eyeballs. This is what I get for not bothering to make a proper website. But once again, things like that cost money, which i don't tend to have a lot of for long periods of time. mainly all of it is spent on fanciful trips or restocks on film, not to mention development of the buggers. But anyway!

Repeat appearances will include the; Nikon D3 Nikon F4S Nikon D800/D850 (When purchase of either is applicable) Nikon F FTN Eventual Glass Purchases;

AFS Nikkor 24-120mm F4 G type AFS Nikkor 50mm F1.8 G type AF-D Nikkor 24mm F2.8 AF-D Nikkor 35mm F2 AF-D Nikkor 300mm F2.8 ED

AFS Nikkor 200-500mm F5.6 ED VR E type Vogitlander Nokton 58mm F1.4 SL-2 S AFS Nikkor 300mm F4 D type AFS nikkor 28-300mm F3.5-5.6 G type Among others.

But as I Shuffle through the Glass I have in an effort to either Sell or keep them Maybe some special moment will arrive that will make me think that all of this spent money on glass, film development, digital bodies and endless hours working out how the fuck a modern flashgun works or how to edit my RAW files like i know what im doing will be all worthwhile. Or it will make me want to travel back in time and throttle whoever designed the AF-D 80-200mm F2.8 one touch to have its’ focal length be changed by jerking off the main section of the barrel.

Atlas 1/8/2024

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NASA Nikon Space Camera Profiles

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𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 - 𝙉𝙞𝙠𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙇𝙍 𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙖

𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙖 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙅𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙣. 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮.

𝘼 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 ( 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝 : 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙪𝙨 𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 ) 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙗𝙮 𝙅𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙨 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙡 .𝙊𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠

The original image and the image after processing are as follows.

𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙄𝙣 𝙅𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙣, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙙 (𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣) 𝙖𝙨 ``𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙮𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚. 𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙖 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙖 (𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙖) 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 .

Single-lens reflex camera Filming in a certain city

When I use Photoshop and similar programs, I use the trim tool when editing photos.

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Emily, 2019 “It Never Goes Away”

So you want to be an artist? Get ready to be faced with more rejection than you could possibly choke down your throat. This is more or less what I told my daughter last night through her watery eyes explaining that she did not get a solo for an upcoming dance performance. As a father I am typically right there to defend her and threaten to destroy her offenders, but when your father is and has been an artist for his entire adult life, I was maybe not the beacon she’d hoped for. To be an artist is to put your blood, sweat, and tears, the product of your precious time on this earth in front of someone and hear them say “no thanks” if you’re lucky. The idea of catching a wave of success from the very beginning and ride it to completion is but a fantasy. The sooner you familiarize yourself with the feeling of rejection and learn not to take it as a personal attack and to merely come back again without resentment the better off you will be. This has been my life for over twenty years and it never gets easier, if anything it feels as if the world only finds new ways to reject you. Without failure however that one “yes” that one success would never feel as sweet and earned. But yeah, try telling that to an 11 year old.