Okay, which camera took *THIS* picture?

Okay, which camera took *THIS* picture?

  • Olympus Stylus Zoom P&S

    Votes: 36 40.4%

  • Canon QL17 GIII rangefinder

    Votes: 28 31.5%

  • Mamiya SD rangefinder

    Votes: 10 11.2%

  • Pentax K1000 SLR

    Votes: 15 16.9%
  • Total voters
    89
dmr

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Which camera?

Why do you think so?
 
It was taken with the Mamiya with an Olympus lens and a Pentax filter using a Cannon lens cap. The film was coated on August 1st at 9:45. 2,546,342 photons were used to make the exposure and the center wavelength was 553 nm. It was developed in Kodak C-41 chemistry at 35C. The drying time was 2 minutes and 3.4 seconds. 5 watts were used to scan the image and 342.4 mV were used resize it. The color space is sRGB.

So, am I close?
 
Finder said:
It was taken with the Mamiya with an Olympus lens and a Pentax filter using a Cannon lens cap. The film was coated on August 1st at 9:45. 2,546,342 photons were used to make the exposure and the center wavelength was 553 nm. It was developed in Kodak C-41 chemistry at 35C. The drying time was 2 minutes and 3.4 seconds. 5 watts were used to scan the image and 342.4 mV were used resize it. The color space is sRGB.

So, am I close?
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Nope, NO, Nine, Nada... Way off. It was a Hoya Skylight 1a filter. Otherwise perfecto!
 
feenej said:
Hey, it looks like Madison.
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That does look like Madison.

I'll go on a limb and say it's the Canon QLIII; there's that signature sharpness/softness conflict going on that is typical of the Canonet.
 
I'm going to say the k1000 - assuming there is no crop - the framing is very precise, lines are all parallel - sure you can do that with an RF, but it's easier with a through the lens system of some sort.
 
Sorry,

maybe I have slept too long in my grave. But I have never seen a camera that takes a picture all by itself. I always thought and knew that there was a human operator involved in actually taking a pictures with the help of a camera.

So, there are new-fangled cameras out there that are self-taught (how) to take level horizon pics, to select subject matter in a nice form, with an angle of view to please us here, ... ? Terrific news this is!

I am amazed, are we not all? I wonder how the street was kept empty for this autonomous new wonder camera to take its FIRST real world PICTURE. (I assume this is a Guiness book first; am I right?) Does the camera move or walk about like HB would, extend itself to get off the ground to see better views? ... Hundreds of quaestion come to my mind here ....

Please do tell how this wonder beast works! "Now I can give up photography" - I could say in a repeat of what old Pablo P did say about painting ... before I went to my grave and sleep ...
 
dmr: I don't know what the hell a Mamiya SD is, so I'm guessing that's what you used. :)

BTW, the street scene is awful classy. Not like the current (NYC) Madison I know.


- Barrett
 
What's a Mamiya SD rangefinder?
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dmr: I don't know what the hell a Mamiya SD is, so I'm guessing that's what you used. :)
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The Mamiya Super Deluxe is probably the best known of the not so well known Mamiya-Sekor rangefinders. The Auto Deluxe is probably the second well known of this very elusive family. A few others here have admitted, at times, to having one of these.

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(Please excuse the crummy photo of the SD. It's a crop of a "family portrait" taken with a friend's {d-word} camera.)

My first real camera was a Mamiya SD, but I sold it way back when and have been kicking myself for doing so ever since.

The quest to find another one is what brought me here to RFF back in early 2005. The one pictured is my current one, made mostly of one nice Ebay special with a few parts from another Ebay special.

BTW, the street scene is awful classy. Not like the current (NYC) Madison I know.
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It ain't Madison, Avenue or Wisconsin! :)

It's 16th. St. in Omaha, taken right after the only semi-scenic snow of the 2005-2006 season. Madame Butterfly is playing at the Orpheum, a block or so to the south, and another landmark is the iconic King Fong Cafe.
 
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