EB-1 wrote:
The EOS 1V had EXIF type data recorded in the camera for 52 or 104 rolls of film, depending on teh amount of details needed. So you could download the roll ID number, lens model info, ISO, aperture, shutter speed, metering mode, exposure compensation, flash setting info, battery info, shooting mode, date, time, etc. for every frame into a CSV file and work with that later.
I don't know of any other film camera that did that, certainly not in 2000.
EBH
IIRC the F5/F6 does this as well. The F6 can also navigate through a number of the rolls on its back LCD menu, it was a feature I found helped a lot for archiving.
The Canon IV Sb and similar models have a rotating prism carousel to change the magnification in the rangefinder to show what different lenses see rather than using framelines.
tile_86 wrote:
IIRC the F5/F6 does this as well. The F6 can also navigate through a number of the rolls on its back LCD menu, it was a feature I found helped a lot for archiving.
I'm pretty sure not the F5. I had two of them before the EOS 1V. The F5 had the MF-28 option, which was similar to the multi-function back MF-23 in the F4. The F6 does record the EXIF data, but keep in mind it was about 4 years after the 1V. It's too bad that film was practically obsolete by the time the F6 was out.
EB-1 wrote:
I'm pretty sure not the F5. I had two of them before the EOS 1V. The F5 had the MF-28 option, which was similar to the multi-function back MF-23 in the F4. The F6 does record the EXIF data, but keep in mind it was about 4 years after the 1V. It's too bad that film was practically obsolete by the time the F6 was out.
EBH
I took a look, the F5 does record EXIF data - the 10-pin connector on the bottom right could be used to transfer it off of the camera. Here's a video of it being done with the Meta35, from the Nikon manuals it looks like you could also do it through a PC or an MV-1. I miss my F5...
I was thinking about all the accessories that my F3 offered, and then remembered that the older F2 had a really strange (and rare) one, which was the DS-1/DS-12 Automatic Aperture Control unit. The DS units fit between the lens and the body, and engaged with the little extra tab that all AI and AiS lenses have at the 7 o'clock position. The DS units interfaces with the F2's metering finder, and using its built-in motor, rotates the aperture ring to give the user a shutter-priority automatic exposure. I've never seen a DS unit in the flesh, but every time you pick up a modern Nikkor lens, the presence of that little tab is the legacy of these aperture-control accessories from the 70's. Just goes to show Nikon's almost insane commitment to backwards compatibility!
Does anyone use their Zf for video? (I use the iPhone for the videos; it's quicker and easier to set up and looks great.)
I love the Zf, but Imagine it without the bulky chassis, battery and additional menus needed for vid? Tippy instead of awkward flippy screen for waistheight shooting? Better, tip up VF...?
grantgoodes wrote:
Very likely (reading between the lines of the somewhat breathless Nikon ad-copy), but I don't know much about other camera manufacturers, being a strictly Nikon guy (well, unless you include my Paubel Makina, and even that has a Nikkor lens!). I think the cool thing about the FA was that the multi-patter metering wasn't just a simple hardwiring of the various sensors to come up with some sort of "average", but was actually a pattern-based modelling system trained with 10's of thousands of sample images. The results were in fact pretty good (e.g. it could handle a portrait with a sunset in the background, and not underexpose the face)....Show more →
I think I read it on Wikipedia, which actually has good info on older cameras. Didn't realize that the plaubel Makina had a nikkor lens
OregonSun wrote:
A few lenses had built in B&W filters. There was the Pentax 67 35mm fisheye that had yellow, orange, red and UV built in. What other lenses had them?
Nikkor fisheyes did this in the early days (e.g. the OP-Nikkor 10/5.6), since the front element bulged outward, and the back element nearly touched the film-plane (they were mirror-up designs), leaving no room for a screw-on filter. The filters were selectable by a wheel on the lens body. More modern, retro-focus designs do not require mirror-up, and take screw-on rear-filters.
OregonSun wrote:
What cameras had that? There are a lot of fixed lens cameras with shutter speed on the lens, but I haven't run into any with interchangeable lenses where it's on the mount.
I really like the radioactive cesium(?) light meters that never need batteries. My dad had some Voigtlanders with them, many Kodak Retinas had them, and I have a Zeiss Ikon Contaflex II 35mm with one.
Apropos the mention of built-in B&W filter-wheels sometimes found on old fisheye lenses, that brings up the mirror lock-up feature which was needed for non retro-focus wide-angle/fisheye lenses. Mirror lock-up could be used to eliminate vibration due to the mirror movement, so was useful in medium-short long-exposures, but was absolutely needed even to mount these old fisheyes. Of my Nikon bodies, only the F3 has true mirror lock-up, and thus is the only camera that can (officially) mount my Voigtländer 15/4.5. The Df has a "pre-fire the mirror" feature which is an anti-vibration feature, but not a true lock-up, since the mirror will attempt to drop after the shot is taken. However, according to Bjørn Rørslett, the Df's mirror will not be damaged if you mount the sticky-inny lens while it is up, and you can actually shoot freely in this mode (haven't had the nerve to try it though).
madNbad wrote:
The screw mount wasn't unique but they were phased out by the late 1970's making them something only found on film cameras.
No problem, I guess I should have been more specific.
I meant for this thread to be about unique and rare features during the film era, not features that were unique to film cameras as opposed to digital ones.
freaklikeme wrote:
Was Minolta the only manufacturer to use a Judas window so you could see the lens aperture setting through the VF?
A bunch of Nikons have that. If you look at Ai and Ai-S lenses, they've got two sets of aperture markings. One for the photographer to see when looking down at the lens, and the other set ends up under the prism and reflected into the viewfinder.
