{"id":11244,"date":"2014-03-09T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T00:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=11244"},"modified":"2014-03-09T17:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T00:23:58","slug":"minolta-super-a-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=11244","title":{"rendered":"Minolta Super A"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Minolta Super A is fairly loud, it sounds more like an SLR with a reflex mirror than a rangefinder\u00a0with a leaf shutter.\u00a0\u00a0 It doesn’t leave you guessing\u00a0though about whether it clicked or not.\u00a0\u00a0 I find it to be an attractive though\u00a0very heavy camera.\u00a0 You can\u00a0read more about it at my post here Minolta Super-A<\/a>\u00a0. The lens is not very flare resistant and allowing the sun to hit the front element results in a huge drop in contrast and a lot of lens flare.\"Minolta_SuperA_Jan2014_014\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I suppose if it were just about the image and nothing else I would stop using these older film cameras and just shoot digital but there is something that’s\u00a0hard to pin down in the experience of shooting a nice\u00a0mechanical camera.\u00a0 If you think about it there is nothing in the experience that is technically\u00a0superior to modern equipment and I don’t have waves of nostalgia sweeping over me.\u00a0 So what is it?\u00a0 I think it may just be the joy of\u00a0 well made things just like someone might enjoy having a nice watch or a\u00a0good set of cooking pots I happen to like cameras.\u00a0 As well I like the look of film images and there may lay a little bit of nostalgia because\u00a0every photographic image I saw for the first 2\/3 of my life was made using film of some sort and that is what I am used to and like.\u00a0 That isn’t to say I don’t like digital imagery and that there isn’t great new work being done with digital of course there is but it isn’t from that formative time in my life, it doesn’t look like the images I saw in National Geographic or any other magazine of my childhood.\u00a0 It makes me wonder\u00a0if someone who has grown up in a time when digital photography has always around will see any attraction to film images, but then this is also the same sort of transition that occurred\u00a0when colour photography became more prevalent and was brought into the contemporary art world.\u00a0 It wasn’t that long ago really that serious photography was done with black and white film because\u00a0that’s how it always had been.<\/p>\n

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