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Good New Days!
Apr. 10th, 2019 10:43 pmI bought a new memory card for the DSLR (Canon T5) today. It cost me $11. I can store more than 1k pictures on that (1G if Fox is measuring), and a 7M digital file seems to me to be comparable to Kodachrome 200 in resolution, if not in that absolute fidelity to colour and shadow that Kodachrome had. I'm sure a 24 frame roll and processing would be over $20 today, and with the DSLR, I can see results immediately, *and* I can bang away like a staffer for National Geographic, and not worry about how many frames I'm wasting.
The downside? Not much, really. The Olympus OM-1N had the very best macro lens I have ever owned (I'm hanging on to that gear in case there's ever a way to convert that to digital). I had a Kowa SeTR body and lenses that I loved so much for it's weird, complex Seiko cyclic shutter, which had seven blades that spun around so that the aperature was fully open at the middle of the shot at all speeds, which meant that I could synch a strobe at ANY speed. This made fill flash incredibly easy to calculate, the moreso that I had one of the first variable-output strobes (not true variable output in the modern sense, though - it employed a "quench tube", a second, hidden flash tube unseen inside the unit, where the excess current was shunted - that seemed *so* high tech at the time, and it ate batteries like candy). The Canon will calculate my fill for me, and, since it doesn't possess an actual shutter, per se, synch is never an issue. A battery will last all day.
Ye Goode Olde Dayes were fun, but honestly, the stuff we have today is *so* much better!
The downside? Not much, really. The Olympus OM-1N had the very best macro lens I have ever owned (I'm hanging on to that gear in case there's ever a way to convert that to digital). I had a Kowa SeTR body and lenses that I loved so much for it's weird, complex Seiko cyclic shutter, which had seven blades that spun around so that the aperature was fully open at the middle of the shot at all speeds, which meant that I could synch a strobe at ANY speed. This made fill flash incredibly easy to calculate, the moreso that I had one of the first variable-output strobes (not true variable output in the modern sense, though - it employed a "quench tube", a second, hidden flash tube unseen inside the unit, where the excess current was shunted - that seemed *so* high tech at the time, and it ate batteries like candy). The Canon will calculate my fill for me, and, since it doesn't possess an actual shutter, per se, synch is never an issue. A battery will last all day.
Ye Goode Olde Dayes were fun, but honestly, the stuff we have today is *so* much better!
