Better still, Fujifilm has steadily built up a range of rather good (and affordable) prime lenses with aperture rings.
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You still get external shutter speed, aperture and ISO dials, and you can still hide the screen, Leica M10-D style.
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But the Fujifilm X-Pro3 gives you some of the same feel but at a much lower price and all the digital mod cons, like autofocus.
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(Image credit: James Artaius / Digital Camera World) (opens in new tab)įujifilm X-Pro3: Not everyone can afford a Leica – or adapt to its rangefinder manual focusing and quirky, minimalist controls. The Fujifilm X-Pro3 combines a classic photography experience with the latest digital technology. Madness? Not at all! Once, all pictures were taken this way and it was a heck of a lot easer to stay in the creative zone when shooting. The only way to find out what you’ve got is later, after the shoot. The M10-D does this by taking away the rear screen completely. Leica M10-D: Cameras really can change the way you take pictures, and the instant playback of modern digital cameras means you’re constantly switching between creative and critical mindsets – both have their time and place, but they are better kept separate. Read more: Leica M10 Monochrom review (opens in new tab) It also uses classic Leica M rangefinder handling and even classic Leica M lenses from way before digital cameras had even been thought of. But the Monochrom produces beautiful 47MP black and white images that are theoretically and provably superior to any black and white conversion from a regular sensor. Leica M10 Monochrom: To a modern audience this looks like insanity: a camera that can’t shoot in color AT ALL. Read more: Hasselblad 907X 50C review (opens in new tab) If you go misty-eyed over old Hasselblad 500c/m brochures, you’ll blub like a baby when you see and handle this camera. Hasselblad 907X 50C: It’s big, expensive and slow to use by regular camera standards, but the Hasselblad 907X 50C is a stroke of genius, a genuine bridge to past analog models that brings them back to life, while offering a thoroughly modern approach to modular medium format digital imaging. They don’t just look like classic cameras but work like them too. These are modern digital cameras with real retro handling. Why are we so shocked? This is how we used to take pictures! (Image credit: Leica) (opens in new tab) Real deal retro The Leica M-10D is a digital camera without a screen. Can we get a retro camera design but with a modern digital workflow? We love the cameras, but let’s be honest, we can do without the old analog workflow. Oh, and money, optimism and patience for sending the films off for developing.
Using old cameras typically needs a blend of skill, experience and know-how. The pictures might not be technically very good, but they were easy to take! You might get no real exposure control at all, and just click-stop zone focusing. Some old snapshot cameras don’t even have this. You don’t need an exposure compensation dial on an old camera, and you don’t need to fret over the focus point when you can just look in the viewfinder and turn the focus ring. Modern digital camera designs have brought us a lot of things we never had before, but they’ve also swept away a lot of things we wish we still had. Even better, you’re not constantly trying to figure out how two override the camera and stop it doing what you don’t want it to. When cameras are fully manual, you do the thinking, not the camera. Yes, you have to everything manually, which is a bit slower and requires a bit more know how, but while you’re setting the exposure and focus point you can be using your brain to work out what they should be. Often they don't need to, and sometimes this introduces variations you actually don't want.Įven now, this simplicity is like a breath of fresh air. Modern cameras check everything before every shot.
Very often you'll be in the same place in the same light, so you might not have to set the shutter speed or lens aperture between shots, and if you use zone focusing and a smaller lens aperture, you might not have to do any of this.
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