RiceHigh's Pentax Blog: My First Camera

Saturday, August 21, 2010

My First Camera

The Canonet QL17 GIII is my first camera. After that, I acquired a Pentax SLR. The NEX is my most recently acquired camera (but it should not be the last, unless I die tomorrow! ;-)).

For these decades, each of my cameras took many photos for me. The photos contain many memories of my life and all my cameras are deeply associated with my memories. Of course, my memories are not photos only and I have indeed lost/got damaged quite some of my old films or even prints over years but my memories are still there. Anyway, photos can refresh the fading memories in a good way, as always.

Nowadays, sometimes I do find that we just take too many photos and the photos are just not as treasurable as what they did when they were rare. And yes, the Image Quality has tremendously been improved, but just to think it in another way: So What? :-o :-)

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Madcatz · 759 weeks ago

My first was Canon A400, then I realised needed something better to imporve skills and bought Samsung gx1s (*ist DS2 clone).. ant still have it! :) Though would like to have more megapixels (after looking at sony A850 samples) :D

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Richard · 759 weeks ago

My first 35mm camera was an Olympus rangefinder. Great experience with many irreplaceable memories. Moved to a Pentax SP1000 M42 slr. The same memories.

Today, the issue is to digitize thousands of 35mm slides. A big challenge which I've partially addressed by simply projecting some of them and rephotographing with a dslr.
Reasonable results. Scanning is frustratingly slow and the results useless.

The best recent results have come from removing the cover glass from a handheld viewer and rephotographing with a dslr and macro lens, adjusting white balance manually.
The macro lens is placed inside the viewer to allow correct focus. Good results
and 20 slides at one sitting.

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RiceHigh 110p · 759 weeks ago

Richard, your method of digitising/copying the slide films is clever and nice. I was also tired of scanning my films using the film scanners which just stupidly do the job by line scanning, which is very slow and time consuming!

Whilst my Minolta scanner had got dust on it for long, I still have so many of my old films unscanned - just let it kept as it be, anyway.

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Richard · 759 weeks ago

Thanks Ricehigh,
I use an Agfa mains-powered slide viewer and simply remove the upper cover glass.
Then, load slides as usual, view, then copy with an E420dslr and 35mm macro placed
inside viewer for accurate focus. Mount dslr on mini tripod, set white balance to 3000K, Amber -7, Green +2
for Agfa slides. Results are quite good, especially for reproduction for family purposes.

Cheers RH.

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RiceHigh 110p · 759 weeks ago

Thanks for sharing with us for your method, too, Richard.