{"id":21643,"date":"2019-07-13T09:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=21643"},"modified":"2019-07-13T09:33:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T16:33:32","slug":"random-film-point-and-shoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=21643","title":{"rendered":"Random Film Point and shoots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-21644\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pointandshoots-8501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21644\" alt=\"Pointandshoots-8501\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pointandshoots-8501.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pointandshoots-8501.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pointandshoots-8501-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pointandshoots-8501-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Pointandshoots-8501-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At some point I acquired these cameras with the idea of running a roll of film through them and blogging about it but they have sat in the &#8220;Too be chosen bin&#8221; for awhile now with no sign of making it out.&nbsp; So I decided to apply a new test or more accurately a thought experiment.&nbsp; Would I want to expend a roll of Kodak Portra 400 in them, and they were found lacking.&nbsp; Looking at them all sitting there it has become clear to me that its the 38mm wide end. The no mans land of focal lengths.&nbsp; Not nearly wide enough and the telephoto end isn&#8217;t that spectacular either.&nbsp; The Minolta has the nicest finish and the Pentax is the most ubiquitous, you almost always need to push some aside to get at the other cameras at a thrift store.&nbsp; So for not having made the cut these ones will find their way back to a thrift store.&nbsp; I just need to make sure I don&#8217;t buy them back accidently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point I acquired these cameras with the idea of running a roll of film through them and blogging about it but they have sat in the &#8220;Too be chosen bin&#8221; for awhile now with no sign of making it out.&nbsp; So I decided to apply a new test or more accurately a thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameras","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22442,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21643\/revisions\/22442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}