Camera and Coffee

If it was good enough for John Newcombe.....

A gloriously sunny morning here in eastern Ontario. Can't think of anything better to do than to soak it all in over a cup of hot coffee. A mix of No Name brand medium roast and medium roast decaf (as a concession to my loving wife). Straight black if you please.

Accompanying this questionably tasty cuppa is my run-of-the-mill, no-frills Canon AE-1. I actually purchased this in exchange for a six-pack of Coors (no kidding). It had been sitting unused and unloved for a number of years. I brought it to my local camera repair wiz-kid and he gave it the full spit'n'polish. No more shutter squeak, all seals good, lens is nice and all was ready to go. I tried to sell it on the popular auction site and had virtually no interest. One person had it in their 'cart' for about a week but didn't end up doing anything. I was almost ready to lose money on this camera in the hopes of just 'moving it along' when I finally came to my senses and decided to keep it. I have never used a Canon AE-1 before so I popped a roll of Arista 100 in it and you know what? It's a pretty nice camera! Smooth operation, nice bright viewfinder, relatively straightforward controls, compact size. Just goes to show that after having chased all manner of camera weirdness over the years along comes a plain-Jane, made-by-the-millions camera, and it's great.

So maybe that Newcombe fellow was onto something after all.

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Tuna said:
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A kit that gets me closest to the film shooting experience while shooting digital. And with the 42mm perspective after the crop factor, it makes me less likely to lust after the Q3 43.
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X-E1 is still my only digital camera 🙂 Well, I bought X-E2S as well recently, but that’s for my kids…
 
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valdas said:
X-E1 is still my only digital camera 🙂 Well, I bought X-E2S as well recently, but’s that’s for my kids…
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Small, light, nothing unnecessary on the outside with all the necessary choices on the inside and I think, especially with the all black body, it is a handsome camera. A joy to use in the manual mode.
 
santino said:
Best way to make coffee and a Minolta, it will not get any better than that.
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Yup. A Bialetti - or one of the China-made lookalike-knockoffs. 98% as good as but lacking the Made In Italy sexiness.

I had a six cup B and used it every day for 20+ years. Now I'm at a tender age where my coffee has to be diluted a bit with boiling hot water, but an English-made Cafetière I acquired in the 1990s serves almost as well. The B languishes in a cupboard at home. I must remember to leave it to a friend in my will.
 
Tuna said:
Small, light, nothing unnecessary on the outside with all the necessary choices on the inside and I think, especially with the all black body, it is a handsome camera. A joy to use in the manual mode.
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An XE2 I bought secondhand from a friend about two years ago, has changed all my perceptions about making good images with so-called P&S cameras. 16 MPs but every pixel of that is put to good use.

I had to fiddle a bit with the settings to give me the Ektachrome-Kodachrome colors I like (and the photo editors who now and then buy my work want for their published books).

Something else that changed my perception of old small cameras, an 18/2.0 Fujinon, one of the really early ones, fairly lives on this camera. And gives edge to end sharp images.

An Xpro2 I paid too much for last year, is sort of pretty good but nowhere near what I can do with the XE2.

We lives and we learns.
 
Tuna said:
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A kit that gets me closest to the film shooting experience while shooting digital. And with the 42mm perspective after the crop factor, it makes me less likely to lust after the Q3 43.
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I may patent a photo-centric version of this coffee cup. To be called Spray And Pray.
 
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DownUnder said:
Yup. A Bialetti - or one of the China-made lookalike-knockoffs. 98% as good as but lacking the Made In Italy sexiness.

I had a six cup B and used it every day for 20+ years. Now I'm at a tender age where my coffee has to be diluted a bit with boiling hot water, but an English-made Cafetière I acquired in the 1990s serves almost as well. The B languishes in a cupboard at home. I must remember to leave it to a friend in my will.
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Original bialetti…. Quite common here in Italy👍
 
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