Topic: photo buffs

[tramp]

what is the difference between nikon and nikkomat?

[loonymoon]

I have a Nikon, and Nikkor lenses. I think Nikkomatt is an old name for some of their older cameras/lenses?
 

[mcpuffett]

Ask Gerhed he may know? cheers Mick.

[gerhed]

The Nikkormat was an early Nikon SLR (predates the F1)--a fine camera.
It went up against the Pentax Spotmatic in the late 60's early 70's.

[Bob Wessner]

Here is a good site to research cameras. I've always had Nikons, good cams, 'almost' all of them.

http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

[mick750F]

   I had a black body Nikomat when I was in art school back in the 70's. It's a great entry level manual SLR film camera. Wish I still had mine...

Mike

[tramp]

thanks for the input
looking on graigslist and the name keeps coming up
been a minlota fan most of my career except for a yashika and a ricoh

[Bob Wessner]

I belong to another forum on film photography. Like our threads on what oil is best (that is just an example, not trying to start an oil thread ) they regularly get into discussions about what cams are best. As far as I'm concerned, good pics have more to do with who is behind the camera than the camera itself. After all, it's just a light tight box with film at one end. I leave out "and a lens at the other end" because not all cams even have a lens. I've seen some very interesting pics with pinhole cameras.

It's not uncommon for someone to begin their photo career with a particular brand. An important consideration when you contemplate changing brands is your current investment in lenses, etc. for the brand you have. The full switch can therefore be quite expensive. Nikons, Pentax, Canon, etc. all good brands with some fine equipment produced.

[Gordon]

As far as I'm concerned, good pics have more to do with who is behind the camera than the camera itself. After all, it's just a light tight box with film at one end.

+1

There's so much more that goes into the finished product of a picture that the specific device used to gather and focus the light is of relatively little significance.  It's the same with any kind of art.  I've seen pencil-drawn stick figure animated short films that blow away most multi-million dollar, feature-length films I've seen. 

[333]

Certainly film is a factor as well.  They each have different qualities.  But I agree about the eye of the person behind the viewfinder.  But enjoy it while you can.  I hate to say it, but film will one day die, and digital will have killed it.  I stopped using film ages ago, simply because it costs less.  And my latest digital is way better than I need, resolution wise.

[Gordon]

That's what they said about vinyl, though, when cassette tapes ,and then later, CD's came out, but vinyl is still around and not going anywhere anytime soon. 

As long as there are people who enjoy using film, there will always be somebody who will make it, and somebody who will process it.  Even if the overall numbers are statistically low, with the internet and the worldwide market it allows, a small percentage of the whole population constitutes a relatively large consumer base.   

[Bob Wessner]

True enough about film declining, but you would be surprised how many still shoot it. Yes, suppliers are fewer and more concentrated, but there's still a good deal of B&W and color available in many formats from 35mm to 8x10. Some folks hang on to old cams and film the way some folks hang on to vintage motorcycles.

[Gordon]

Yep.  Soon enough film cameras, and all associated items, will become "vintage" and will gain a whole new following. 

[gerhed]

I used to do a lot of painstaking photography with a variety of large format film cameras.
I enjoyed the challenge--a photo was an event--to be recorded with care and precision.
A couple years ago I got a digital camera (Nikon P5100) that does every thing and provides a huge file size to boot.
I now shoot digital exclusively.
However,  I think the quality of my photo output has now dumbed down to a vast array of record shots.
Hey this camera does video too!

[tramp]

one thing about film is you learn to compose the shot for a one time shot
in film you learn to see what you can shoot before you push the button
love my digital, still shoot film
and this
my film camera feels better in my hand than my digital
it just feels warmer