{"id":7985,"date":"2013-03-07T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=7985"},"modified":"2013-03-06T20:25:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T04:25:04","slug":"samsung-evoca-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=7985","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Evoca 140"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You might think with a lens branded with Schneider Kreuznach\u00a0it would be a decent performer but I think Samsung used the engineering\u00a0budget to try\u00a0and\u00a0cram as many electronic tricks as they could into it.\u00a0\u00a0 How often have you thought, \u00a0I wish my camera would take a picture and then zoom out on it’s own\u00a0and take another and then another?\u00a0 Me either.\u00a0 Or to take a picture and then turn itself off and back on again from 10 to 60 seconds in ten second increments or 10 to 60 minutes in 10 min. increments ,and take another and so on until you run out of film.\u00a0 Hey wait a minute these are actually the kind of features I like to exploit maybe I’m being too hasty.\u00a0\u00a0 Part of the problem with this camera and really all the longer focal length zooms from this era is that the lenses are super slow at the long end.\u00a0 In the Samsung’s case it’s an f stop\u00a0of 12.2 so hand holding is going to be a challenge.\u00a0 For example using 200 ISO film on an overcast day with a light level of say 14EV\u00a0(thats a typical day around here)\u00a0 an aperture of f12.2 would require a shutter speed somewhere around 1\/60 second which isn’t really enough to hold a 140mm lens steady.\u00a0 Even using 400 ISO film isn’t enough.\u00a0\u00a0While writing this\u00a0I’ve\u00a0 sold myself on trying it again with some better 400 film and staying closer to the 38mm end of the lens.<\/p>\n\n\t\t