Which camera ? Advice needed.

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21 Aug 2004 - 11:45 AM

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lightweaver

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21 Aug 2004 - 12:05 PM

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Pentax Me Super, Olympus OM-10 and Canon A1/AE1 would all be good options and within your price range. All will give you the option of auto exposure and manual exposure (though the OM-10 will need an adapter to get full manual exposure control, but they're cheap enough) All have the benefit of having cheap lenses floating around, especially on ebay.

Things to look out for: ask about the condition of the internals. Ask if the light seals are intact or are sticky (if they're sticky then stay clear). Make sure the mirror foam isn't getting sticky too. Make sure the metering is accurate and the shutter too. If it looks in a bad state, then it probably is.

For prices, check out Ffordes and Mifsuds as a rough guide. Remember you don't want to be paying less than dealer prices.

I've used the ME Super and really liked it, lightweight, compact, loads of lenses knocking about, and produced good results. Not used the OM-10, but there are loads on this site who do and they rave about them. Same for the Canon ones.

Just thought about Ricoh too. A KR-10 super or the KR-10x are both very good cameras performance wise, but not as well built as the others I've mentioned. There are plenty of MInolta's around too, but a lot of them don;t have metering in manual exposure mode, which is a real pain.

Hope that helped and wasn't too much info. Good luck

Colin

SteveCharles

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21 Aug 2004 - 12:45 PM

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Manual cameras are perfect for the C&G course, I used a Nikon FE. I found that manually controlling the aperture and shutter speed made understanding the relationship very easy.

To enable you to complete and take part in all aspects of the course, I would look for the following features:

Depth of field preview
PC flash sync socket
range of lenses from wide angle to telephoto, say 28mm, 50mm & 135mm, or a zoom covering these.

Enjoy!

Steve

robs (e2 Member)

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21 Aug 2004 - 2:24 PM

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I have an EOS 3000 with 35-80mm Zoom and a Lowe Pro case that I was about to put on eBay. Drop me a mail if you are interested (if you are interested we can discuss price!) - I will hold of sticking it up for a few days!

Rob (rob@alpinist.co.uk

seabloke

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21 Aug 2004 - 5:31 PM

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Nikons give you the option of buying the series E lenses, which are seriously cheap secondhand.

I think you can get a 28, 50 and a 100 f/2.8 in this range.

mdpontin

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22 Aug 2004 - 8:59 PM

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Ahhhh the good old Pentax ME Super! I had one of those - wonderful little camera. Unfortunately I accidentally embedded it in a dry-stone wall while out hill walking one day... :-(