Film Camera

[badronald]

Can anyone recommend a good film camera for me , my eyes get too sore looking at a big PC screen (my tear glands are damaged) , so I am gonna go to film, I really have not got a clue what to look for , but a local auction had some nice looking 1970s Leicas for about £100 , would this be ok with the 50mm lens ? So I guess a budget of £250 is on the cards as a good start kit.
cheers for any info . I love digital togging but I cant proccess the pics because off my dry eyes.
:)

[pearce_jj]

what digital kit do you have?

[Craikeybaby]

If you have any lenses that would work on a film camera (Canon EF, rather than EF-S for exapmle) a film SLR that would work with them would be a good bet.

Or you could go for a medium format Bronica.

[badronald]

I got Nikon kit at mo.

[Flash In The Pan]

Buy an old Nikon slr, plenty about for not a lot. Leicas are quite specialised and you might get a shock at the price of lenses.....

[iliria]

i have a canon t-70 as my film camera. it hasnt failed me so far.

[diggerz]

I just bought a Nikon F65 on ebay for £16 (body only) no batteries which cost £12 from tesco, plus film £3 then I've got to get the 24 developed and printed, and I only have digital lenses. Is it going to be worth all the trouble? I'll let you know,but there's somethng about film isn't there?

Cheers Paul

[towershot]

You will want auto focus if you have eye probs,
Nikon F90 or F100.....:thumbs:

[iliria]

i managed to get my lenses, camera and flash etc for £36.40 as the guy didnt know how much to ask

[MisterE]

I can't see why you should think that you have to change to film. You can just as easily take a memory card in to some place like Tesco/Boots/Jessops etc and have the pictures printed without going near a pc as you can take a film in for dev/print. And it will still be cheaper than buying a film.

You may need to experiment with the colour and contrast settings to get the sort of print that you want. A couple of years ago I took a Canon 5D dslr plus an Olympus OM2 35mm film camera on a holiday. I had 6x4 prints done from both, and the 5D results were noticeably better. Not just because it was a 5D. Any dslr can produce good 6x4 prints. Colour and contrast were better because I'd adjusted them in camera to output them suitable for printing.

Having said this, I still do some film, and will continue to do so.

[sprog]

I got Nikon kit at mo.

Then the world is your oyster.

As already mentioned for around £100 you can get a tidy F100 or F90x (don't bother with the F90) Or go retro & manual with a nice FT or FM2