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My 8 Golden Rules for Cameras

After photographing for over 25 years, I realized the ideal camera(s) for me has to have the following: -Very small in size / light -WYSIWIG viewfinder if possible -Manual focusing capable -Cell / under or overexposure indicator -Freedom to shoot - aka not having to worry too much about reaching the end of the roll too fast -Give me an "analog photography" feel - aka the results need to feel like film -Double Exposure capable -Interchangeable lenses These are my 8 Golden Rules for me to fall in love with a tool and incorporate it in my workflow. Therefore, my favorite cameras to own and use are the following: 110: -Pentax Auto 110 - 6 out of 8 Golden Rules, one extra point for being a SLR that fits in a jacket pocket and giving out outstanding results 35 half-frame: -Olympus Pen F (with two lenses) - 8 Golden Rules attained! - extra point for the freedom brought by half-frame (72 exposures...)     35mm: -Minolta X-300 - 8 Golden Rules attained! Medium Format: I'm still s...

Super-8mm Cameras manuals

    It's 2020, and resources about Super-8 can be hard to find. The reason why - and why people stopped shooting film to shoot digital pictures - somewhat still puzzles me, as the two technologies are completely different. But I feel like people also stopped drawing or making "physical" art as much as they used to (that is, non-digital art). The massive collective hallucination that anything digital necessarily has to be better than its analog counterpart might come to an end someday, in the meanwhile, it'll be the few of us enjoying the "older" technology as much as we can. That being said, I've found this website , with Super-8mm Camera manuals, and it's still maintained! Photo credit: unsplash