Equipment
The equipment I use varies as I have preferences for different occasions.
Nikon
885 Digital Camera
My first broke down after 2 weeks.
Nikon said it was unrepairable and replaced it.
The problem was it kept coming up with System Error. The new one seem ok
but
I am still a bit wary of it when pushing it to the limits. Really like the
camera
as it takes some great pictures which tend to be a bit red at times. This is
easily corrected.
The
Coolpix 885 is a camera which deserves the Nikon name on the front.
It has almost the exact same feature set of the more expensive Coolpix
995,
but with a different lens and body. The photo quality is top notch, and there
are more
manual controls than you'll ever need. The only real downsides are the battery
situation,
small CompactFlash card, and lack of LCD info display.
For a midrange camera, the Coolpix 885 is one of the best out there.
What I liked:
Excellent photo quality
Great camera for macro shots
Every manual control ever conceived
Support for external lenses, filters, and flashes
Lots of info about your photos in playback mode
Next up is my
Minolta
Maxxum 450i SLR
No
matter what your photographic experience may be, the Maxxum 450si makes
taking
pictures a profound pleasure. That’s because it’s equipped with fully
automatic mode for
point & shoot simplicity, subject program selection for those hard-to-take
shots,
and complete creative control with aperture priority, shutter priority, and
manual exposure modes.
Features:
Single Lens Reflex Camera
Fully Auto Exposure Modes
Landscape Mode
Portrait Mode
Close-Up Mode
Night Portrait Mode
Sports Action Mode
Auto Focus With Manual Focus Override
Aperture & Shutter Priorities And Manual Mode
8-Segment Honeycomb-Pattern Metering
Built-in Pop-Up Flash with Red-Eye Reduction
Exposure Compensation
Film Speed Override
Requires a 2CR5 battery
Next up is one of my favorite
cameras.
I bought this second hand for £25 Pound 15 years ago.
It came with loads of accessories including a 300mm lens.
I won may competitions with this old camera.
Praktica
MTL 5 B
Fully mechanical SLR with light
meter.
Manufactured : early 1980s
Taking lens : all auto/manual M42 lenses will fit
Shutter : Bulb, 1 - 1/1000 secs
Film speed : ISO 12 - 1600 setting for light meter. Any speed will work.
Winding : manual
Film Size : 135 (35mm)
Material : body plastic with metal details
My original camera and still going strong35 years old
Zenith
500
The
Zenith 5 belongs to the series described above. With predications and equipment
similar to those
of the Zenith 4, this camera looks different from the preceding two models
due its
variable focus lens, the Rubin 1. The Rubin 1 lens has a relative aperture of
1:2.8 and is capable of gradually
changing the focus length from 37 to 80mm with the same relative aperture.
The use of the Rubin 1 lens considerably widens the picture scale range thus
enabling the photographer
to choose the best composition and picture scale.
Two lenses with longer focuses, the 4/135 mm Tair 38 and the 5.6/200 mm T200,
can be used with the zenith 5.