RicardoD
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Hello Everyone,
I just received my new-to-me Canonet GIII QL17 from Classic Cameras. It's was described as in A+++ condition and that pretty much sums it up. It almost too clean as I bought this as a take along Camera on my business trips and now I want to baby this thing. I don't know if they chain smoke at Classic Cameras or its just the previous owner but my Canonet reeks of cigarettes at the moment. Need to air it out.
I'm coming back to film after leaving in 1998. I currently own a Canon DSLR (300D) which has taught me so much. I has also gotten me addicted to fast Prime lenses and so I think I will fit right into this rangefinder crowd. I am also tired of the limited dynamic range of digital and I have come to learn that film will give that back to me.
I have learned so much from this forum in the past week or so. I now have the confidence to use the Voigtlander Vito CD scale focus camera that was my Dad's camera back in the 60s. Here I am thinking I am such a DSLR technical expert yet I never heard of the Sunny 16 rule until lurking about this forum this past week. I am so eager now to go out and shoot with the Voigtlander and some color slides with the GIII.
The biggest thing for me at this moment is to let go the technical with the cameras and just focus on composition. I feel I have mastered the technical aspects of photography with my DSLR images and instant feedback but I now have to teach myself how to compose a shot better. It's like I get it now but its time to become a real photographer. I hope I can do that.
The other thing I have been fighting with on my Digital Rebel is the 1.6 multiplication factor with the lenses. My 50mm prime is a 80mm, my 85mm is a 136 and I did just pick up a Sigma 20mm prime (32mm on the Rebel) but the lense quality is mediocre and the thing is gigantic. . So for over two years now I have this big gaping hole between 35-80. I never use the zoom that came with my Rebel. So I am just so excited to be shooting with a beautiful actual GIII 40mm fast prime lens that acts just like a 40mm!!!
All the best,
Ricardo
Voigtlander Vito CD
Canon GIII QL17
(cough) Canon 300D (cough)
I just received my new-to-me Canonet GIII QL17 from Classic Cameras. It's was described as in A+++ condition and that pretty much sums it up. It almost too clean as I bought this as a take along Camera on my business trips and now I want to baby this thing. I don't know if they chain smoke at Classic Cameras or its just the previous owner but my Canonet reeks of cigarettes at the moment. Need to air it out.
I'm coming back to film after leaving in 1998. I currently own a Canon DSLR (300D) which has taught me so much. I has also gotten me addicted to fast Prime lenses and so I think I will fit right into this rangefinder crowd. I am also tired of the limited dynamic range of digital and I have come to learn that film will give that back to me.
I have learned so much from this forum in the past week or so. I now have the confidence to use the Voigtlander Vito CD scale focus camera that was my Dad's camera back in the 60s. Here I am thinking I am such a DSLR technical expert yet I never heard of the Sunny 16 rule until lurking about this forum this past week. I am so eager now to go out and shoot with the Voigtlander and some color slides with the GIII.
The biggest thing for me at this moment is to let go the technical with the cameras and just focus on composition. I feel I have mastered the technical aspects of photography with my DSLR images and instant feedback but I now have to teach myself how to compose a shot better. It's like I get it now but its time to become a real photographer. I hope I can do that.
The other thing I have been fighting with on my Digital Rebel is the 1.6 multiplication factor with the lenses. My 50mm prime is a 80mm, my 85mm is a 136 and I did just pick up a Sigma 20mm prime (32mm on the Rebel) but the lense quality is mediocre and the thing is gigantic. . So for over two years now I have this big gaping hole between 35-80. I never use the zoom that came with my Rebel. So I am just so excited to be shooting with a beautiful actual GIII 40mm fast prime lens that acts just like a 40mm!!!
All the best,
Ricardo
Voigtlander Vito CD
Canon GIII QL17
(cough) Canon 300D (cough)
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