17th September 2012, 12:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 17th September 2012, 01:11 AM by John Wells.)
monty Wrote:Nikon SLRs for film are the best and last for ever..................for digital it depends on the brief....lots now state use of DSLR minimum of 10 megapixels.
True ;o) I like the sentiment.
I worked with Nikon and Leica cameras in the laboratory.
It's a shame that the same cannot be said for film - if production continues, it is likely to become very expensive.
However, 10 megapixels is meaningless out of context, as I mentioned on http://www.bajrfed.co.uk/showthread.php?...logy/page5
The number of megapixels that is 'satisfactory' is often also defined by camera magazines in relation to available cameras...primarily in relation to the magazine's function as an advertising medium, including articles!
I still have many of my old film cameras and lament their redundancy, but not processing faults,'tram lines' etc. I once took 36 pictures from a helicopter, only to find two lines across the images when the film was processed.
Even when film has gone, I do not think that I could part with my cameras.
In the 60s and early 70s, many magazines would only accept transparencies, preferably on Kodachrome 25 or 64 (and ektachrome for large formats). I managed an A4 page image with Agfa CT18 around 1973 and a two page spread shortly after. The film size was 127....the camera was eventually redundant when 127 ceased to exist.