Canon SLR Film cameras are over.....

Argh. I despise digital cameras. Manual all the way. Its far more fun and its the only way to take a real photo as far as I'm concerned!

Plus my minolta 300mm lens on 100ISO slide film is still sharper than the canon 350D and f4 70-200mm lens. Even if the minolta does take about 7 seconds for the autofocus to make up its mind!

Cheers,
~Al

How does it fare on ISO3200? :lol: The 70-200L f4 is sensational. Can't imagine how nice your Minolta set-up must be. Got the 300L f4 but I've yet to give it a proper work out.

Argh. I despise digital cameras. Manual all the way. Its far more fun and its the only way to take a real photo as far as I'm concerned!

This is going to be an interesting debate

This reminds me me of the "goto" or not to "goto" debate. Digital cameras are in their infancy, in SLR mode its less then 3 years old, hard to believe they were released only in Aug 2003, so I dont expect technology this new to be 100% superior over an established film technology that is decades old.

I can imagine when film came out originally, I'd bet there were astronomers back then who said that a pencil sketch was the only true way of making a picture, and not through the use of those modern chemicals. :lol:

As for it been fun, well, not for me, I'm not keen on developing rolls of 24 pictures where you'd be doing well if 5 came out well, been there done that, much too costly an exercise. The DSLR cameras are expensive, but, mine has payed for itself in the costs saved in not needing to send rolls of film off to be developed.

How does it fare on ISO3200? :lol: The 70-200L f4 is sensational. Can't imagine how nice your Minolta set-up must be. Got the 300L f4 but I've yet to give it a proper work out.

The minolta setup isnt that good. It's a Sigma telephoto zoom, and a fairly standard camera. Perhaps its just because I'm comparing a 10Mpixel tiff converted to an 8mp with an actual 8mpixel image. Its been nearly a year since I did a comparison now, but I'll give it a go again sometime.

The 300L was one of the lenses I was looking at but couldnt stretch the budget that far.

ISO3200 hmm... doing I need to get the hypo kit out for that? (no I dont have a hypo kit beofre anyone asks!)

Cheers,
~Al

albertw wrote:

The 300L was one of the lenses I was looking at but couldnt stretch the budget that far.
~Al

I picked it up second hand for $600 (it's the non-IS model). However, it became a less wonderful deal by the time customs and excise got their hands on it!

Going to be using it for sports shooting.

Argh. I despise digital cameras. Manual all the way. Its far more fun and its the only way to take a real photo as far as I'm concerned!

This is going to be an interesting debate

This reminds me me of the "goto" or not to "goto" debate. Digital cameras are in their infancy, in SLR mode its less then 3 years old, hard to believe they were released only in Aug 2003, so I dont expect technology this new to be 100% superior over an established film technology that is decades old.

I can imagine when film came out originally, I'd bet there were astronomers back then who said that a pencil sketch was the only true way of making a picture, and not through the use of those modern chemicals. :lol:

As for it been fun, well, not for me, I'm not keen on developing rolls of 24 pictures where you'd be doing well if 5 came out well, been there done that, much too costly an exercise. The DSLR cameras are expensive, but, mine has payed for itself in the costs saved in not needing to send rolls of film off to be developed.

Well I'm sure digital will get better but I still prefer manual. A lot of my friends share the same argument that it cuts down on film processing costs and they can upload them straight to the computer and always print them if they want.

Well I find it better to work the opposite way. I scan all my photos. I have a really good scanner. And that doesn't take too long. And I'm sure the cost of all that ink and photo paper if one was to print them is far more than the cost of getting a film developed.

Yeah there is the problem in that some photos mightn't come out, but that doesn't happen to me much anymore.

Argh. I despise digital cameras. Manual all the way. Its far more fun and its the only way to take a real photo as far as I'm concerned!

This is going to be an interesting debate

Not from me, not this time Dave!

:lol: