Welcome To The Camera Collector

Hi Everybody, I'm just getting started here so please let me know what's on your mind so I can get a handle on posting replies and content. As you may know I'm an expert on analog photography with vintage cameras, but 60% of what I shoot is digital using some of the latest gear, and I've written countless reviews and test reports on current cameras and lenses so (almost) anything goes. My goal is to make this informative and fun.

Cheers, Jason Schneider
 
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Welcome Jason.
I'll be honest, I had to google your name to find out who you were. I live under a rock photographically speaking, hence the need to do so.
I shoot Sony A7ii and A7iii camera's as I can't afford the costs associated with film. I found this site when I inherited my grandmother's M3 and wanted to know more about it.
Would like to see a link to any Sony reviews you've done.
Thanks, and again, welcome to RFF, where some really cool camera's hang out.
 
Anything what you like to post here will be interesting. Personally, I like then mentor talks from his mind, not just waiting for questions. Doesn't have to be fundamental writings.
 
Hello Jason,

Welcome to the forums! I'm a very long time admirer of yours, going back to Modern Photography days when I was a teenager looking for my first SLR.

Back around 1988, owning just a few cameras, I got a copy of one of your books, where you wrote about "future collectibles". That prompted me to buy a new F3/T (which I still have and use), but it also started me on a long adventure with Nikon cameras. By the way, it took me a long time to find the other two books you'd written, but we'll worth the wait!

Also, I have a very amusing article you'd written for Modern Photography, where you described your early days of camera collecting in NYC - at one point you'd had a Leica and then traded it (on a Nikon F, I think), then made successive more trades - seemingly downward!

I've always enjoyed your writing, viewpoints, and perspective on cameras, collecting, and photography in general.

Although I'm 95% a film shooter, I'd love to hear your opinions on the Fuji X system. The X-Pro1 and its discrete controls is what got me interested in digital photography

It's an honor to have you here with us!
 

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Welcome Jason. I’m looking forward to your posts and hope we get a lively and informative thread going. Am nostalgic for the Modern Photography columns of my distant youth!
 
This is great. Welcome. I agree with Ko.Fe: your view of what we might like to read will be very good for a start.

Now we can all feel better, one way or another. The collectors will be delighted you’re here. Those like me who ‘only’ have around twenty cameras and claim they’re not a collection can get official confirmation that we’re right, at last. The borderland of collectible interests me a little.

I found a mint 35 Summilux recently and use it on my Monochrom. It’s pretty ugly wide open. I wanted one of these for over forty years. I paid too much, but half what they go for in the US. It’s light and compact and it works well except wide open, but I have had some nice shots at f1.4, in certain light. Photojournalists used these a lot in the ‘70s and f1.4 might look less ugly on film. I haven’t tried it on film yet. The lenses were beaten up a bit cosmetically by the pros and the hoods especially, if not lost or discarded. Its stable-mate, the Summicron of the era, got talked up by Mike Johnston as the King of bokeh and also costs more than it should. To me none of this constitutes ‘collectible.’

Recently a straight looking M3 auction went ballistic. At least two experts realized that the serial number was for the last of that camera. I reckon that is collectible, but even that probably will have interested you less than what you’re going to teach us here.
 
Jason welcome.

It suddenly strikes me that, as I am sure you already know, your name Schneider, is very appropriate as it turns out given the importance of that name in optics. In fact I still have some Schneider Kreuznach lenses and love using them.

Strangely I had not considered it in this context before, but my grandmother on my father's side was originally a Schneider of Austro-Hungarian birth. (My father when he was alive claimed some family relationship to Romy Schneider the Austrian actress of the post war era but then again he was a good story teller and I am sure that every Schneider on the planet who knows who she as does the same.) It is odd given my liking for Schneider lenses that until reading your name, this connection had never even reached the level of my consciousness.

In any event welcome and I hope you enjoy being here. There is a lot of accumulated knowledge here (and opinion - as I am sure you know, the two are not always the same - especially in my case :) ). You will find people very helpful and - given your knowledge about collecting - I am sure we will look forward to drawing upon your knowledge.
 
Hello Jason,

You mentioned You are shooting about 60% digi these days

What Film and digital cameras /lenses seem to make You shoot these days ?

Cheers & Best Wishes ~Helen
 
Hello, Jason! Of course I recognize your name! I've read your articles in the magazines over the years.

OK. So I've had a couple of Rolleiflexes over the years. I don't have any now, and I'm thinking of picking one up. My last one was the T. I've had a good time doing Rollei research on the web lately, and I have one book on order from Amazon. If I get another Rollei, I don't know that I will take a lot of pictures with it; I just feel like owning one. I seem to feel drawn to some of the 3.5 Tessar models, like maybe an Automat. Still, I enjoy obsessing over Tessar vs. Planar difference. Other than that, I like my Leica, Nikon, and Hasselblad gear (and use most of it). We have a lot of Leica fans here.

So, welcome, I'm glad you are with us!
 
Welcome to RFF, Jason Schneider! I recall enjoying your columns in the magazines. Long history with Pentax here... The final few years of Pentax film cameras found me getting variations of them - such as the same cameras under different designations for different markets - and I never really considered it "collecting", but it was!
Looking forward to your participation here. :)
 
Mr. Schneider,

As a reader of both Modern Photography and Popular Photography right up to the bitter end, I am more than pleased to know you might be entering into discussions here.
I don’t think that I knew you had a Major in English Lit and a minor in Classics. That might impress me more than anything else, as those are few on the ground these days:)
 
I was also fascinated to learn about your educational background. I happen to be a professional classicist, so I'd love to know whether and how your interests in photography and literature intersect. Thanks in advance for your contributions.
 
Welcome aboard. Read many an article by you back in the days of Modern Photography. Started out as a Nikon freak (still own a bunch of them starting with F up to my trusty D610), Many many Leica's (some film, some digital, but love the M3) and Voigtlander's. Love my Pany GX8. So enjoy RFF.
 
Welcome Jason!
Remember well some of your articles. Have a lot of photo related 'junk' but not a collector myself.
Especially vivid in my mind was an article titled "Conceal that camera!" or something to that effect.
Believe it was a Ricoh Auto Half with a spring wound film advance, hidden behind a polo shirt.
Would love to see articles like that again. Of course now the camera would not be hidden behind a button, it would be the button.
 
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