{"id":16907,"date":"2017-08-30T07:15:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=16907"},"modified":"2017-08-30T07:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T14:15:59","slug":"konica-c35-ef3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=16907","title":{"rendered":"Konica c35 EF3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Konica_EF3-9105\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>The EF3 came in a number of colours and Konica marketed it as ‘The Fashion conscious camera’ back in 1983.\u00a0 Regrettably mine is plane old black but still does an admiral job.\u00a0 The primary reason being the 35mm F2.8 lens with 5 elements.\u00a0\u00a0As a camera with a fully automatic exposure system though you can’t select a manual aperture which can be an issue with zone focusing.\u00a0 The easiest way to use zone focusing involves pre-setting it to a distance and then snapping the picture when the subject\u00a0is at that distance.\u00a0 In order for this to work well\u00a0it requires a certain\u00a0amount of leeway with the depth of field.\u00a0 The problem with the EF3\u00a0as I mentioned is the lack of control of the depth of field through\u00a0setting the\u00a0aperture. If the camera chooses f2.8\u00a0 there is a higher probability of the subject being out of focus.\u00a0\u00a0 However in adequate light and with a fast enough film the camera is bound to stop down the aperture and the number of in focus shots will improve as well as the optical quality.<\/p>\n

A major limitation though is the narrow\u00a0shutter speed range of 1\/60 – 1\/500 second which is good for reducing camera shake but again forcing the need for the larger apertures.<\/p>\n\n\t\t