These simple boxes of cardboard or wood quickly evolved into beautiful assemblies of shiny metal.
The first cameras were primitive light-tight boxes made to suspend a lens a certain distance away from a focal plane of film. Film camera capability and ergonomics simply went up, and up, and up, decade after decade, until they were no longer being actively developed. The industry never dipped or dived for a decade, as other industries have at times. Film cameras got better and better, until they were superseded by digital cameras. The historical trajectory of the film camera is easily trackable. But generally speaking (that means for a vast majority of users), there really is a best film camera. I love YouTube camera dorks and there are plenty of sincere YouTubers who add to the knowledge base and (more importantly) help people improve and get greater enjoyment from their photography.Īnd I also know that there’s not supposed to be such a thing as a “best camera.” Cameras are tools and different people need different tools. If that’s you, chill, my bud! I’m not trying to make anyone mad. Some people reading this will already be twitching their fingers, ready to drop the digital gloves in defense of their favorite YouTube personality. Really? This is how we photo geeks are getting our information and advice about photo stuff in 2020? From someone who’s never shot the camera that he’s reviewing? This does not establish confidence. He asked “Can anyone tell me if is good? I’ve never used one and I’m shooting a review of it tonight.”
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Case in point, I was recently scrolling through a Facebook group for camera collectors when I saw a YouTuber / Professional Camera Liker comment within the group. But they’re all just echoing each other’s shouts, and the original shout may be questionably informed to begin with. And often, it seems, there’s no good reason for anything to be popular or not, except that someone who’s good at marketing their voice as an influencer has decreed it so.įilm photography YouTubers will tell you that the best film camera ever made is the over-priced and over-hyped Contax T3, or the too-specialized Hasselblad X Pan, or the enormous, expensive, and impractical Mamiya 7. Whatever’s popular will remain popular, and whatever isn’t never can be. It’s because we get nearly all of our information from the internet and the internet is an echo chamber. These are all rhetorical questions to which I know the answers. Why aren’t these dirt cheap and exceptionally powerful cameras the most popular cameras on the internet? Why aren’t my social media newsfeeds flooded with Maxxum 5s and Nikon N80s and Canon EOS Rebels? Why do people keep repeating that the Leica M3, an expensive, primitive camera from 1954, is the best film camera ever made? But this can’t be so, because I don’t see these film cameras being promoted nearly as often as I see under-performing ancient (but beautiful) cameras being promoted. I feel like the facts make this an obvious conclusion.
Let me share another opinion you probably won’t find in the echo chambers of Film Photography Youtube and Reddit – that the best film cameras are the last film cameras – unpopular, ugly and boring autofocus SLR film cameras that were made between 1995 and the early 2000s.
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