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What is the best camera for black and white photography? |
Please provide any helpful information for an aspiring photographer. Photography accessories and processes? Where to find the best equipment and educational tools? Please help. For black and white photography, film is the only way to go. You could go digital, but, the soul of a black and white photo is given to it in the darkroom. If you are stone cold new to the field, buy a good 35mm and look at ilford films and papers. Read up on Ansal Adams, look for his formulas in which he developed his prints. Read up on his techniques. If you are a little beyond a newbie, then consider a larger format camera, something like a mamiya C330. The only problem with the larger format cameras is that you have to order the film from a supplier, I have not seen 120 or 220 film on the open market in decades. As to learning, most camera makers have study courses on line as do the film manufactures. I have included a couple below. The problem with digital black and white is that there is hardly any control over the process, at least not like there is in film. Digital black and white seems so sterile, crisp to defined. Back in the day I started with a Pentax Spotomatic Super F, then moved on to the mamiya's. I looked on e-bay and found both, at really good prices to boot. What ever camera you decide on, whether it be a Nikon F1, or pentax spotomatic F, remember most of the quality comes from the lense. Back in the day, Minolta had a good camera, but bad lenses. Nothing worse than having a great shot trashed by a bad lense. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me through Yahoo Answers! Good luck and happy shooting. Source(s): http://www.ilfordphoto.com/home.asp?n=1... http://www.kodak.com/eknec/pagequerier.j... http://www.nikonnet.com/dyn/articles/art... go back to the 1930's they have the best Pentax K 1000....I have one...it's 35MM...great camera. Last of the steel bodies...you can change lenses to suit your need. I am a photographer and I can tell you that it doesn't really matter what kind of camera you have, if you want the best black and white photographs your main concern should be the type of film you use. There is no "best" camera. For a beginner, I would get an older 35mm camera with fully manual controls, so that you're not tempted to just shoot using automatic settings. That would be decent to learn until you have enough knowledge to try out other different types of cameras - medium format, digital, newer automatic SLRs, whatever works for you! I can't agree with deepbudha that if you want to experience digital photography, you need to go film. Being on both sides of the fence - I have developed and processed my own b&w film prints in my own darkroom- I know the advantages of disadvantages of both... b&w film is classic, has been around forever, making a print is a craft as much as taking the image, and immensly satisfying, and the final print is still incomparable to any black and white digital print I have yet seen. But getting a darkroom is an expensive process, and for some people lacking the space, not even an option. Learning to get profficient in the wet darkroom taks lots of time and takes away from your schedule. It would be a shame for digital enthusiasts to lose on the joy of making b&w images surely for purist's sake. Digital still allows for amazing b&w images. Any camera that is good at taking color is good at taking b&w. Don't use the camera's built in b&w modes... shoot in color, convert in Photoshop. Converting in photoshop gives you much greater control on the final tones of your print than shooting in camera ever will, and photoshop makes some tasks that were difficult in a wet darkroom a cinch! I recommend picking up a book dedicated to this and learning how to use your image processings software to make great b&w images... Check out some amazon book links that may help... |
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