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millsart wrote:
One interesting thing I've found when I've been shooting with various Fuji bodies, the Nikon Df, a Leica, or basically anything "retro" is that I find that actually draw MORE attention.
I always have people come up and ask about the camera, what is is, is it such and such model etc
Shooting with something like a Canon Rebel or Nikon D5000, no one gives a second look
Ultimate "stealth" camera was my Sigma Merrill, Talk about a 90's era, utilitarian black brick! lol. Looked like it was the first digital camera I ever bought, if not ever made.
Camera's like the X100s, especially in black, are darn sexy. We love how they look as photographers, and typically even non-photographers gravitate toward the designs.
I think a camera like my Sony A7 is actually pretty darn stealth too (though the R version was a little loud) because it says "Sony" in big white letters and lets face it, Sony is known as a consumer electronics company that makes TV's and BluRay players to most people
Its like.... "hey, check out my Sony camera, that I bought at the local Best Buy, when I picked up a new Blu-ray player". A boring and vanilla mainstream America as you can get really.
My A7r was certainly a tech Tour de Force, as was my RX1, but I never once got anyone ever comment on those cameras. X100..... That thing attracted comments like when I'm out walking my puppy.
I don't know if the "its just film" attitude really even makes sense these days. I don't think there is any popular mindset that its a film camera, so its just some old fuddy duddy with some old camera, or some art school student etc. Its not like "digital" is this cutting edge tech reserved for professionals, digital is as common as it comes, and these days people are far more likely to post images via smartphone than camera.
Now for video stuff, I think the point still works. I mean you film someone with a little handicam, vs you film someone with some big broadcast style camera, they are likely going to respond differently and wonder what its being used for (Though they may be more willing to get shot by the broadcast cam if they think they will be on tv lol)
With cameras though, I think film is such a forgotten dinosaur that its not even in the common collective.
Sure in 1997 you could say " sorry, just had 2 pics left to finish to roll" and diffuse a situation but say that today and I don't think most people would know what your talking about.
Kind of sad and certainly makes me feel old, but I can't even remember last time I walked into a grocery store etc and saw film, photo processing etc. Probably gas was $0.99 a gallon ...Show more →
That's funny, because the only time I've ever had anyone come up to me and talk to me about my camera was when one person just said "Nice camera" when I was out shooting an M9, and when a few people came up to me at various times when shooting the X100 and said something along the lines of, "Cool, you're shooting a vintage film camera? How old is it?" Even my sister's fiancé wondered why I'd started shooting film when he saw the X100, and he isn't camera guy at all. I guess, to the layman, the X100 is even more vintage-y looking than other recent vintage-y cameras.
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