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Hi all,An article written by ~suntech , reviewed and layed out by the ~photo-class team, aiming at an introduction to the different available camera and film types...
Brief:
Most of us are either used to consumer-range digital cameras or to standard 35mm analogue cameras. However, many other types of supports and cameras exist and are used daily by profesionals.
Letβs have a peek at the most common ones.
Please leave us comments if you found this useful or if you have any suggestion.
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Originally submitted: Jan 19, 2004
Resubmitted: May 22, 2007
Article by ~suntech
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Comments: 38
I cannot view the bigger picture, nor can I download it. I think it needs to be re-uploaded. I just keep getting an error that says "file not found". :\
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I cannot view the bigger picture, nor can I download it. I think it needs to be re-uploaded. I just keep getting an error that says "file not found". :\
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I also think this page should be updated a little. the prices are way off, and we are up to 39mp with the H3D 39 that came out. it goes for around 
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i agree with , vintage cameras kick a**. we shouldn't stop using them, just like the vintage audio equipment, now priceless, vintage cameras will gain appeal again. i have a 70's pentax k2, that i picked up from my gramps and a 70's model of the k1000 not the re-release from the nineties, that i learned on, and i found a mamiya 645 in an old dusty box of junk. i haven't gotten the mam to work yet, the shutter sticks. it has double exposure feature too, i never heard of that until i saw this camera.
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Quite a useful read.
I myself have an affinity for vintage cameras, and am starting to learn to handle a few of the ones I have acquired.
While digital is certainly the way to go in the modern world, especially if photography is your professional career plan, I would recommend to any hobbyist/experimenter, hardcore or not, to try and get their hands on the old-timey stuff and see what they can crank out.
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I have a Pnasonic DMC-LZ7 and i got if for 199
And they said it was 7 megapixels i am kinda confused its a digital camera too
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a image size of 500Mb !!! wtf! my 400D makes images around 10-20 mb in RAW... and thats 10mpx 
Nice tut!
Cheers from *mangatobbey
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great! thanks
why is in the Miscellaneous directory?
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...I clicked "download to desktop," but it displayed a "file not found" error. Could something have broken the link? Perhaps you should check it... or maybe this computer is just misbehaving, as it is sometimes wont to do... You have excellent, useful tutorials. I plan to put the photoclass icon in my journal to recommend it to other people. 
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This was very useful, though I wonder if you have any other information about getting the cross processing effect from polaroids?
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It' ectually not the megapixels that count, because when you have 6 MP but your CCD is small, your better of with another camera.
Likewise, the most detail, last time I checked was a camera with 1,5 MP but a huge CCD
A large format digital camera
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Thanks so much for all this info...really well laid-out, extremely useful too.
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Thanks a lot, I found this helpful and a lot of this had more information than I learnt in 2 years of photography and a few more of Studio Arts in high school! The Polaroid stuff sounds very intruiging!
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Great read and a solid overview.
+ 12megapixels for ~$3000? 
+ Also, in the Large format section...any specific dimensions on size?
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Hi there, thank you for the comment.
About the camera prices - maybe *suntech was talking about the S2Pro. It does have a "fake" pixel count... The full-frame, 10+Mp cameras are far more expensive.
About the dimensions of the large format medium... It depends greatly, because many are custom build to the specification of the photographer. There may be a standard size as well, but I am not aware.
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Thanks a lot for this great article. I learned a lot!
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VEry informative, I love it! I really do admire the work that you are doing here 
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More info never harmed anybody. Especially that I didn't know that those "accordeon" cameras are still in use (tonight I sleep less stupid
Frankly, what I'm really looking forward to is the Sharpness and Lighting tutorials.
Thank you so much, guys. Keep it up, we love you.
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Good one! Not too much of a help for me as I have not the money to buy me a medium or large format cam. But it's informative for those who didn't know already.
Hope to see more tutorials like those already posted here!
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Nice one! I like it a lot!
How about doing one like this about pin hole?
I never did get good enough(for me) results...
Loved this article!
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well done, as usual!
There are still some other unusual types but they really don't need to be mentioned here....
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Nice presentation guys, and thanks for liking it to both the viewers/commenters and the staff
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like what parts exactly ? as far as I'm concerned all that's changed is the mpixel range for digi cams but I could be wrong ... enlighten me
Anyways, looking forward to a clarification, and thanks for takin' a look at this stuff
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I think It would be nice to explore digital:
-pointandshoot
-DSLR
a little further.
And maybe even the gigapixle cameras.
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A great article for those who are unsure of what media type to get .. I think I'll be sticking with digital, but will splurge in the future to get one with manual controls
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well presented and extremely informative!
keep it coming!
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Good information once again. Thanks for this you guys.
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