Pages Tagged “Manual SLR”
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- Depth of Field: Real and Simulated
Four versions of the same photo. One taken with my phone, which has a deep depth of field. One automatically “enhanced” by Google from that phone photo. One taken with my phone in portrait mode, which simulates a shallow depth of field. One taken with my ancient film SLR camera, with a low F-stop to […]
- First Try With The Old Film Camera
We got the negatives and scans back from the two rolls of film we shot with the old manual film camera. Despite the damage to the case, it seems to still be light-proof, as the second roll of film came out about as well as the first. It was an interesting experiment. We mostly took […]
- Bringing Back the Old Camera
A couple of weeks ago, the almost-8YO found my old manual SLR camera – the 1967 model my grandfather gave me. I bought some film, and picked up a light meter app while waiting for the battery to arrive (the light meter is the only powered part of the camera), and I showed him how […]
- The Old Camera
The 7YO was looking through the closet the other day and found my old camera bag. Inside it: the old film SLR camera that my grandfather gave me when I was around 12. It’s older than I am, a Sears camera that appears to be a rebranded Ricoh Singlex TLS from 1967. It’s completely manual […]