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What would be a best film SLR camera for a student of photography?
studying photography and I want to buy a film camera SLR, do you know wich kind of camera can I buy. I’m getting started in all of this and in the course it dosen’t really specify wich camera or what type it only wants a film SLR.
get a used canon, nikon or minolta that has autofocus… for a Canon look for any autofocus… for a nikon a N90s… for a Minolta one of the Maxxums… the reason for that suggestion is that in the future if you stick with photography there is no point in having an old film camera that uses lenses that wont work with the digital SLR you will likely buy in the future. Canon and Nikon will be around in the future and more than likely Sony (which uses Minolta lenses) will as well. I don’t see any point in getting a strictly manual camera without autofocus just so you can out grow it and turn it and the lenses that camer with it into paperweights. When looking for those cameras just look for an autofocus that is in decent shape and works… likely any will do even lower end ones…. I’m familiar with Nikon so I can only speak of them from experience and if you get a N90s or even an older N90 either will do anything you might need for a film class and will even give you the option of DOF preview…. I’m sure some Canon and Minolta do but am not familiar enough with the models that would…. I would also say don’t get anything better than a N90x because if you did you would be investing more money in a camera that you wont likely use that much (eventually you’ll go digital).
Don’t listen to those trashing autofocus cameras… the fact is most older used autofocus camera allow complete manual operation including manual focusing…
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