{"id":15872,"date":"2016-07-05T05:27:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T09:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=15872"},"modified":"2016-07-01T00:15:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T04:15:52","slug":"brians-old-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/brians-old-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian\u2019s old Cameras."},"content":{"rendered":"

These are some roster views of equipment I\u2019ve used over the years.<\/p>\n

I say \u2018roster\u2019 to clarify, that these are not \u2018builders\u2019 photos of the equipment. Like decades old General Motors diesels, my cameras are battle-worn machines that show the effects from\u00a0years of hard service.<\/p>\n

While I\u2019ve lit these images to show detail, \u00a0I\u2019ve not made any effort to \u00a0disguise, clean or dress up these old cameras. You see them as they are.<\/p>\n

In my youth I made most of my photos with various Leica 3s that were the better part of fifty years old at the time.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s, my pal TSH exclaimed sarcastically that I\u2019d missed my calling as a Nikon endurance tester.<\/p>\n

I’ve typically chosen to work with durable equipment that featured\u00a0excellent optics and rarely worried about acquiring the latest models or gadgetry. These are tools to an end and not jewelry.<\/p>\n

\"One
One of several Leica model 3s that I used extensively in the 1970s and 1980s. This one is fitted with a 21mm Super Angulon, the aftermarket viewfinder for same is mounted atop the camera. The camera body is nearly 80 years old. It still works, I exposed several rolls of black & white film with it in June 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"One
One of four Rolleiflex Model T twin-lens rangefinders that I’ve exposed photos with over the years. My dad’s first Rollei had gray leather. I wore that camera out in the late 1980s. This is one of the replacements.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Between
Between 2001 and 2007, I exposed hundreds of rolls of film with this Contax G2 rangefinder. It’s a solid and heavy little camera; seen here with a 45mm Zeiss Planar lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Here's
Here’s my first digital camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3. I bought it on the recommendation of Eric Rosenthal, who lent me one to test. I made my first photos with it in October 2009. After more than 65,000 exposures it developed a fault and I replaced it with a Lumix LX7 (with which I made this image). Over all, I like the LX7 better, but I wonder if it will prove as durable as this olds LX3?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"This
This Canon EOS 7D has served me well since 2010. It is seen here with a prime 200mm lens. These days I only use it\u00a0occasionally, but it still works as well as the day I took it out of the box.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among the cameras missing from this selection of photos are several of my work-horse\u00a0machines; my dad\u2019s original Rolleiflex, my old Leica M2 rangefinder (that my brother occasionally still uses), various Nikon model F2\/F3\/F3T and N90s bodies (plus lenses) that I dragged all around the world between 1990-2006, a Nikkormat FT3 (with red leather), and my Canon EOS-3s, which I continued to carry around to exposed film. Also, my two newest machines, a\u00a0Lumix LX7 (that exposed these images) and a FujiFilm X-T1 digital camera).<\/p>\n

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These are some roster views of equipment I\u2019ve used over the years. I say \u2018roster\u2019 to clarify, that these are not \u2018builders\u2019 photos of the equipment. Like decades old General Motors diesels, my cameras are battle-worn machines that show the effects from\u00a0years of hard service. While I\u2019ve lit these images to show detail, \u00a0I\u2019ve not … Continue reading Brian\u2019s old Cameras.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[300,1776,29,38,87],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Leica3A_P1480458.jpg?fit=2448%2C1634","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-480","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15872"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15892,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872\/revisions\/15892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}