I got my first roll w/ the M3 back a couple of weeks ago. In general, focussing wasn't as hard as I thought it'd be, but I wasn't shooting wide open, so I had a wide margin for error. Getting used to metering is going to be a bitch. I don't want to buy anything, but i might have to. Right now I'm carrying around a 2nd camera just to read the light. Balboa Park Downtown SD The dog
Great shots, porkchopexpress. I make no claims to artistic talent, but I do some photography and like BNM, old school and/or old. I have a fully manual Nikon F (circa 1968) and an F1 (early 70s I think). The Nikon F was called the Vietnam camera; it's the one all the photojournalists used to cover the Vietnam War since, except for dropping it in the ocean, it's practically indestructable. Downside it weighs a ton. F1 has auto features but I still like my manual F best. Toted it to numerous demonstrations, pride parades, sporting events, photographed cakes. I got a digital camera as my 5 year gift where I work. Admittedly, not high end, but I just can't warm to it. It seems more limited than my old Nikons, keeps giving me messages that lighting not correct (in a Nikon I just use the right film and shutter settings) and colors not as true. Cell phone camera only good for quickie snapshots, cats in cute pose, cell phone is handy. And for emergency photos (like Holla Back! site) Last summer I was at a Pride Parade with my trusty Nikon F and a young girl, high school age, came up to me and said she'd never heard a camera click like that!
Thanks Crandc. For a while I was thinking about getting an old Nikon SLR. I think I was looking at the FM2 or FM3a, I forget which. My DSLR is nikon, so I'd be able to use the same lenses on both. I might still do that, but after my latest purchase I don't think I can justify anymore gear for a while.
Beautiful woman. Is she missing her lower right leg too? High contrast to go with contrast of beauty amidst ugliness of war?
Ha, I guess it kind of does look like she has an amputated leg. But, no, that's just the shadow. The lighting in there was perfect. They're bunker type structures right north of the golden gate bridge. I forget the name of the park, but it's up on a cliff/bluff.
Ah sorry, yeah to me the right leg looked swollen at the knee like it might from supporting a prostheses, and then there's the line on her lovely face, thought it might be scar (to go with leg). Regarding the light, quite the dynamic going total black to total white. I recognized the bunker -- to much far cry 3. Have you ever shot the batteries at Fort Stevens State Park? If not you might enjoy, lot's of opportunities there; subtle shades and tones, lots of concrete surfaces in different light, rusted iron objects, repetition of form, and many perspective shots. Thanks for sharing your images.
I like the scooter shot. Ironic the owner customizes it with pixelated computer characters -- when his ride is an item that's probably entirely lacking in square parts.
