Camera advice - the time has come

Think I have. Sits on a shelf now and every time I look at it, it appears to be laughing at me.

 

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The AE1 is a great old camera. Can you lock the mirror on it? I can't remember. If not, it could mess with macro imaging.

Someone might have said this but it's important to consider how close the camera must be to the coin to get a good image. If you have to be really close that makes it harder to get light where you need it.

It's a good idea to take some pocket change to the local camera store and play with the display model before buying. It cuts down on costly mistakes. I made a few mistakes over the years buying equipment.
Just some thoughts.

 

Not from the slabs, and small coins are more difficult. I probably take numbers of pictures of coins on a scale just this side of Heritage and there are issues with automatic focus, especially with slabs because the infrared bounces off the slab. Dimes are particularly troublesome because of their size and with my Ikes I want to take pictures of details for variety purposes which get hard to catch even with the macro lens.

I've also used my camera to death which doesn't help. But my next camera is going to have a manual focus. It won't be bad to have a manual overide on Fstop either.

Ruben

 

Well, I don't know about locking the mirror but my AE1 still took shots that my Cybershot can't touch in terms of lighting and focus. If I open the lens wide, I could take amazing closeups, catch pollen on bees with a standard 28mm lens.

You want to get close with small shots because you want to catch more light and not close your lens down with zoom.

I'm not a professional photographer so forgive me if my technical jargon is wrong, but I used my AE1 for almost 2 decades and I took great shots. I understood how to work it. A key thing is manual focus. The AE1 has the reflex focus and when the two halves of that circle matched, I had perfect focus, must better than any automatic camera. I could also open up the Fstop with a twist of the wrist and let the light flow in. Even with 100ISO film I got great evening shots. It had the built in light meter that I could read to adjust my lenses in real time.

Ruben

 

I still have an AE1. It was a work horse. Do you remember the XE7?

 

nope. The AE1 was the first 35mm camera I ever brought. I brought it for a trip to Israel.

Ruben

 

I was actually the manager of a camera shop when the AE1 came out.
Minolta came out with the XE7 and it was a battle. You made the right choice Ruben. I'm really sure there are more AE1s still working.

 

I've never seen you take coin photos. i bet you have some wonderful pics.

 

How about mirror like proofs? I know its an old thread but I was searching the forum for search information. I'm sick of seeing my lens in the fields.

Ruben

 

Also let me know how many "flexible led book lights" you find for $1 each.

 

Marsden,

Who you talkin to? This thread is 3 years old.

 

The post immediately preceding mine is just a few months old.

 

I don't know the details but Ruben (mrbrklyn) is gone (banned) and is apparently not coming back so I doubt you are going to get an answer from him.

 

Oh well. Once (on another forum) I actually did add a comment to a thread which hadn't had any posts in over a year. Ten years' hard time for that one, you'd think I'd have learned my lesson. Only got out of the Pen last week! Thanks for pointing out my transgression, old habits die hard and we must always be on the lookout for recidivism.

Now I'm going back to looking at the Buffalo Nickel thread. Nice stuff in there!