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Oh, wow. I was just the other day thinking how absolutely awesome it’d be if Nikon were to make a digital version of FE2, FM3A, or something like that. Perhaps I should be proactive and take a hacksaw to my FM2N and make a similar FrankenCamera
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Ho Ho Very funny
laugh to die and love it deadly XD
I would buy one in a heartbeat if it was either the old Minolta XD mount or a Nikon F mount.
no viewfinder :-S looks not really like what I would ecpect for it. Just a compact hidden in an old body…
I was told a few years ago that Canon chucked out skip (dumpster)-loads of AE-1 circuitry because they wanted everyone to go EOS and digital. Maybe now they see things differently?
theyve wanted everyone to go EOS since day one that they changed. Just like The nikon manual slr thats left selling and the canon and the minolta I believe, they made a large run a few years ago and they are selling from the stock supply they have. Once stocks run out they would only make another run if many tens of thousands could be sold again.
Is this supposed to be some kind of a 4/3rds system?
It would be nice if the 4/3rds had this kind of classic look and character.
Haha classic, nicely done though
Its probably just a promotional gimmick to show what they can do. But it is interesting if thats really a 35mm AE-1 with an actual digital back. They’ve done quite well if its 9MP fitting on the 35mm frame. There was a company that looked like it was gonna release digital backs for 35mm (was reported in uk’s AP mag) but the whole thing went bellyup if i remember.
years ago that it.. i think only 2.5MP
I have been saying for 3 years that the market to attack for any one of these companies would be schools. bulild your base of customers that way. A simple way to do that would be to build a small full frame camera about the size of a FM10 or Vivitar 3800 (the two most common “student cameras”) that was full manual all the time, raw only, 1 auto focus point or better yet none with a big view finder. a clean 10-12 mp sensor (every company would have one they could use. Canon has tons of exp with the original 5d – imagine that sensor with 5 years of new tech to help it – it would be gorgeous), 1 frame per snap, accurate ettl (so you can use modern flash techniques),3 inch lcd. The lack of jpg, custom styles, custom functions, etc would make for much simpler programming. I would want this backed up with a new series of primes in the 200 dollar and under range (like nikon 35 1.8 style build but not dx) in 20, 24, 28, 35, 50, 85, 105, and maybe a 135. The camera would be in the 300 dollar range to the public but I’d sell it to schools even cheaper to get my lens mount in peoples hands. You give it an old school feel and look and not only students but hipsters and older folks and retrophiles would line up for it…an affordable, smallish, simple camera would kill rebels, d3000′s etc. Nikon has the means in the d700 chip (now 3 or 4 years old) and canon has the 5D chip….
Make it happen.
This obsession with making cameras look/act like cameras from 30 years ago is absurd. It’s just nostalgia for us old fogies – it has nothing to do with practical use of the camera. As soon as they start stripping out features of a modern digital camera, users would complain, “oh…where is that feature…I needed that one. Why is this camera so inflexible?” I make the same mistake myself: I keep posting that I’d like to see the digital equivalent of the Olympus OM-1, although that’s more from the perspective of size and weight than trying to attain simplicity of use.
Do you also want a computer that looks and acts like the first (pre-Macintosh) Apple II or the first IBM PC? Although I frequently shoot manual myself, asking for a manual-only camera is like asking for a computer that only has MS-DOS.
The strategy for making cameras simpler is not to take features away. It’s to develop better ergonomics and user-interface so that the hundreds of settings possible don’t get in the way of ordinary usage and to completely rethink the UI to make the best use of those features. This is something that the camera companies haven’t quite learned how to do effectively as yet. They’re still letting engineering geeks design the user-interface.
Young people are not interested in a clunky looking DSLR that looks like a camera from 1970 any more than they want a CRT television or a car that looks like a Ford Pinto. The future for them comprises of ever- higher quality cell phone cameras. That might not teach them anything about photography, but they don’t really care. And for those that do care, the m4/3 style cameras (or something similar) will fit the bill for most people, especially as the format matures and some manufacturers will seek the low-end of that market as the P&S market dies (given up to smart phones with cameras).
if you saw the number of students that are forced to buy a camera they will never use after on semester, if you saw the number of “old fogeys” that say why do i need all this?, if you realized how much bs is in the cameras (especially the cheaper ones – all the jpg settings, modes, etc) then you would realize that what i asked is not a retro looking camera so much as a camera that takes stills well and cheaply. The body types I alluded to were simply starting points based on the cameras that most students are forced to buy even though the majority will never again shoot 35mm film.
Instead teach them with a digital at a good price that marries them to a lens mount (good business) and that they will be able to use effectively and happily for years to come…
Excellent !! I would like to change my 3 Contax RTS III for this back !
Fool!!! you should be arguing for an RTS or C/Y digital back.. I sorely regret selling my RX with recon shutter n waist-level finder just so i could go dossing about france with a Canon consumer compact. What a fucking mug.. the images produced by those lenses surely offset any advantage to below 20 mp digital .. for years of use. Scanners bridge the gap but yet again i succumbed to a shoddy Canon scanner that is too helping-hand and cuts off portions of slides. ad infinitum