Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!clewis From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: advice on camera Message-ID: <373@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 10:46:32 EST Article-I.D.: mnetor.373 Posted: Wed Apr 3 10:46:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Apr-85 12:21:30 EST References: <488@nbs-amrf.UUCP> <2720016@acf4.UUCP> Reply-To: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 66 Summary: In article <2720016@acf4.UUCP> hkr4627@acf4.UUCP (Hedley K. J. Rainnie) writes: [ discussions on Nikon FG and T70 ] >Besides, the T70 doesn't look like a real camera. So what? I got a T70 body from my SO as a wedding present. We both love it. It has a number of things going for it (I don't know much about the FG, so it may have some of these things too). It's light - seemingly as light as my SO's Fujica ST705 and 801 (which were chosen by her because they were small and light enough for her to hold comfortably). Much lighter than my elderly (non-programmable) AE1. The camera is very solid and nice to hold. It is very easy to use - automatic or not. On our honeymoon to Britain it took terrific pictures under all sorts of adverse conditions: 1) Continous rain - the pictures were so good that nobody believed that it was raining. No problems whatsover. We once went shooting with a newspaper photographer nearby - both his A1's shorted out - we had no problems even though we were shooting more than he was. It was sometimes so bad that you had to wipe the lense off before every picture. 2) Hand-held existing light photography under very dim conditions (interior cathedral ceilings and walls at night, the Roman Baths' underground museum etc.). Some of the exposures were as long as 1 sec. (Some, but not most, of these were by resting the camera on a convenient shoulder or chair back) We rarely used the flash. In spite of the rain, dim light and miscelaneous banging and crashing around, the T70 resulted in virtually *zero* dud pictures. We're used to 3-5 bad pictures per roll, but we did considerably better than that. Less than 10 out of 900 were thrown out due to exposure quality (many of them from the AE1 we were also lugging around). It was painful trying to reduce the pictures down to 500 (we're still not quite there!). Picture quality is generally better than my AE1. We usually use the T70 in AE lock mode which allows us to point the camera at what we want exposed "correctly", then locking the exposure, and then framing the picture as we want. The programmable modes (wide, normal, telephoto) allow you to optimize the camera w.r.t. camera shake and depth of field. I do use manual modes, but the automatic modes do such a good job that it often just isn't worth the bother. It also uses various intermediate exposure settings (eg: 1/10, 1/90, f6 etc.) giving more precise exposure control. My only complaints about the T70 are minor: - it doesn't display the shutter speed in the view finder - it doesn't support thru-the-lens-flash-metering (then again, neither do my flashes) - there is no way to do multiple exposure - the auto-load doesn't allow me to take pictures before the "1" frame. I usually get one or two pictures before the "1" with my AE1. By the way, I really recommend Fuji ASA 100 slide film (aka Black's prepaid slide film here in Canada). We used it almost exclusively on our trip. Wow. Beat the heck out of Ektrachrome 100 and 200. The colours are very bright and clear. I don't think that we will ever use anything else (except for special purposes). -- Chris Lewis, Motorola New Enterprises UUCP: {allegra, linus, ihnp4}!utzoo!utcs!mnetor!clewis BELL: (416)-475-1300 ext. 321