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I had an AV-1. Good camera, but backwards. Most SLRs you set the shutter speed and the electronics sets the aperture for the correct exposure.
Not any of my Nikons. (FE2s &F2s Depth of field is what I want to control the most, as well as you use the aperature to control strobe exposures. Most automatics give you a choice though whether you want aperature or shutter priority. http://hometown.aol.com/hlaviation/
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I have used the disposable water proof a lot. They are great on vacation when you are not sure where you will be (swimming with stingrays in the Caymans or something). They share the same problem all disposables have, a fisheye lens that demands all shots at "belly gun" range or the subject is just a dot in the frame. If they made one with a little longer lens they would be great for times when you don’t want to risk a real camera. Maybe a lens that you don’t turn in with the camera but still not a bazillion bucks.
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hmm…I’m considering taking my camera out on a kayak ride in Pensacola Bay this weekend. It’s a 35mm SLR, automated enough that I can pretty much point and click while I learn to use it; it’s capable of being set to full- manual. Better yet, go to WalMart and buy a disposable camera for outdoor pictures. That way you won’t ruin your SLR because I GUARANTEE you will get salt spray on it in that kayak, even if you don’t roll over and have the camera in a plastic bag. The only way I’d take that SLR kayaking is in a diver’s case made to take pictures at 100′…..TIED TO A FLOAT!
*nod* I’ve pushed the idea around, but at $300, I don’t want to fubar it by dunking. I thought about bagging it, but I like your idea better. I’ve got a disposable (hacked to make it re-usable) or three sitting around. What about the "waterproof" disposables?
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Congratulations on the new camera. You now have TWO expensive hobbies. If you want to try for three, investigate RC Airplanes (-:}
Somebody help me…I’m into all three =0 …as long as a kayak is a boat *g*
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hmm…I’m considering taking my camera out on a kayak ride in Pensacola Bay this weekend. It’s a 35mm SLR, automated enough that I can pretty much point and click while I learn to use it; it’s capable of being set to full- manual. Better yet, go to WalMart and buy a disposable camera for outdoor pictures. That way you won’t ruin your SLR because I GUARANTEE you will get salt spray on it in that kayak, even if you don’t roll over and have the camera in a plastic bag. The only way I’d take that SLR kayaking is in a diver’s case made to take pictures at 100′…..TIED TO A FLOAT! *nod* I’ve pushed the idea around, but at $300, I don’t want to fubar it by dunking. I thought about bagging it, but I like your idea better. I’ve got a disposable (hacked to make it re-usable) or three sitting around. What about the "waterproof" disposables?
There ya go! I never looked too close for a waterproof one….. Sure would be cheaper if it fell over the side or your little boat went belly up and everyone got a dunking…..(c; Larry
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Butch, you may want to lurk about in the photography newsgroups. They’re very busy. — steve Remove the "nospam" from my address to abuse my email box.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Congratulations on the new camera. You now have TWO expensive hobbies. If you want to try for three, investigate RC Airplanes (-:} Thanks…. And thanks to everyone else you replied. You all have given me great encouragement. It’s going to be a lot of fun. I already shot a roll of "sacrificial 24 exp. film" to experiment with the camera. It works fine and shoots really nice photos. Two or three photos were way underexposed, ’cause dummy me tried to take an indoor shot without a flash or I was goofing with different F-stops. But mostly they were nice photos. The nicest one that I shot was where I screwed on the 4x macro adapter/filter on the 50mm lens and went out to my garden after I watered it. I went right up to a pea pod about 2-3 inches away and snapped the shutter. The photo came out looking like something from National Geographic. Talk about close up! Wow! I have 200 speed film in it right now and that should be fine for boating. The camera also came with a Skylight filter that you screw onto the 50mm lens. Whatever that does, I have no idea. I want to pick up a UV filter at the camera store, before I take the camera out in the boat. Thanks again for the great advice! Butch Ammon
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Congratulations on the new camera. You now have TWO expensive hobbies. If you want to try for three, investigate RC Airplanes (-:}
Thanks…. And thanks to everyone else who replied. You all have given me great encouragement. It’s going to be a lot of fun. I already shot a roll of "sacrificial 24 exp. film" to experiment with the camera. It works fine and shoots really nice photos. Two or three photos were way underexposed, ’cause dummy me tried to take an indoor shot without a flash or I was goofing with different F-stops. But mostly they were nice photos. The nicest one that I shot was where I screwed on the 4x macro adapter/filter on the 50mm lens and went out to my garden after I watered it. I went right up to a pea pod about 2-3 inches away and snapped the shutter. The photo came out looking like something from National Geographic. Talk about close up! Wow! I have 200 speed film in it right now and that should be fine for boating. The camera also came with a Skylight filter that you screw onto the 50mm lens. Whatever that does, I have no idea. I want to pick up a UV filter at the camera store, before I take the camera out in the boat. Thanks again for the great advice! Butch Ammon
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The boys of wrecked.boats are experts in a wide variety of subjects. If you need major surgery, ask one of our doctors. If you need plumbing, we got that covered, too. Cold Fusion? No problemo. Best rum? Got it……
This is a shocking revelation. Are you proposing there is an unheralded denizen of rec.boats who professes to be a professional marine surveyor, Admiral of the High Seas, gentleman farmer/rancher, champion motorcycle racer, NASCAR phenom, award winning photographer, ace barnstorming pilot, master plumber, electrician, mechanic, capable of solo circumnavigation in a tire tube, and accomplished expert in nautical buggery? Amazing. Major league scouts must be battling to sign this phenom. — Skipper
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The boys of wrecked.boats are experts in a wide variety of subjects. If you need major surgery, ask one of our doctors. If you need plumbing, we got that covered, too. Cold Fusion? No problemo. Best rum? Got it…… This is a shocking revelation. Are you proposing there is an unheralded denizen of rec.boats who professes to be a professional marine surveyor, Admiral of the High Seas, gentleman farmer/rancher, champion motorcycle racer, NASCAR phenom, award winning photographer, ace barnstorming pilot, master plumber, electrician, mechanic, capable of solo circumnavigation in a tire tube, and accomplished expert in nautical buggery? Amazing. Major league scouts must be battling to sign this phenom. — Skipper
SFTU. Go boating, lighten up.
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Can anyone who has a Canon or used a Canon SLR camera, give me some advice on how to get started? I’d love to take this camera on my boat (getting on topic here….) and take some nice scenic photos on the freshwater lake and maybe get a closeup photos of a Great Blue Heron or something. Thanks….
The problem is that bird photography can be very frustrating and very expensive. It is very difficult to get close enough for a frame filling shot because birds, including waders, are small. Even with a 600 mm lens, which I know you don’t want to carry in the boat, you need to be about 20 feet from a small bird and about the same for a head shot of a larger wading bird. However, a 400 mm lens (like a Sigma 400 APO) aren’t terribly expensive and are usable on Canon and other bodies. Plus, you haven’t got a fortune in it so you can see if this type of photography is for you. I’ve worked with a 300 with and without extender and was able to use it successfully here in Florida, where birds are relatively well adapted to human presence and I could approach them. In Michigan, for example, where the birds aren’t so well adapted, I’ve had Great Blue Herons typically fly away when you are within a couple hundred feet of them. Clearly, a 300 or 400 would be useless in that situation. From a boat, image stabilization would be an asset. Maybe the 300 F4 IS with a 1.4 extender and some stealthy movements would net you some satisfactory shots with the IS calming the rocking boat and eliminating the need for a tripod. If you have the money, start this way with a used 300 IS (about $750-$950). If not, the Sigma 400 should be available in the $400’s. None of that was meant to discourage you – it is a great idea and fun to pursue. However, you should go in with your eyes open and not expect too much from short lenses. Mike
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Wow, boat and camera expertise! Very good response.
The boys of wrecked.boats are experts in a wide variety of subjects. If you need major surgery, ask one of our doctors. If you need plumbing, we got that covered, too. Cold Fusion? No problemo. Best rum? Got it…… Being psychotic, otherwise we wouldn’t own a boat, you can also get expert psychiatric advise, right from the people who lived it, too! Peggie KNOWS sanitation……(c; Larry
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The AV-1 is an EXCELLENT 35 mm SLR. If you haven’t done so yet, bring it in to a camera shop for a cleaning and overall check up. Chances are the camera has not been cleaned/serviced since it was purchased. For close-up shots (and a good all around shooting lens) I would suggest a 28 – 200 mm zoom/telephoto lens. This type of lens will provide wide angle to zoom close ups (and everything in-between) without having to carry several lenses with you. While Cannon lenses are very, very good, there are after market lenses that are as good and a lot cheaper. When I had my Nikon 8008, I used a Tameron 28 – 200 AF (auto focus) zoom lens. The only problem "I" saw was at 28 mm – there was some very minor distortion at the corners of the photo. It was minor, you needed to use a magnifying glass and look VERY closely to see it even on an 8 x 10 print. Congratulations on the new camera. You now have TWO expensive hobbies. If you want to try for three, investigate RC Airplanes (-:} – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey there…. I was reading through some posts that got into the topic of cameras, both film and digital. I don’t have a digital camera (I bum my company’s camera, if I need one), but my wife and I have a simple, point -n shoot Kodak 35mm camera. Someone spoke of SLR cameras. Would you believe that over the weekend, a friend **GAVE ME** an old Canon AV-1 35mm SLR camera with a 50mm lens and a 135mm lens and flash unit? TOTALLY FREE! The guy was like, "Hey, I’m into the digital age and have two very nice digital cameras. You want my old 35mm camera? Heck, man, take it… I have no need for it anymore. Incredible!! This camera was bought new in 1982 and still works like a charm. I replaced the battery and gently cleaned the lenses with lens tissue. It’s perfectly fine. Question: I am a simple point-n-shoot, novice photographer. This Canon AV-1 (it’s the step-down model from the famous Canon AE-1 Program) has all sorts of buttons, F-Stops, Film Speeds, and is all auto exposure, apature priority, kind of a camera. It’s really great and I need to understand it and what different film speeds do. I know an apature like F-16 is like a pinhole on the shudder for taking bright sun photos, and F2 or even F1.8 is for dusk or nighttime photos. At least that’s as much as I know. Can anyone who has a Canon or used a Canon SLR camera, give me some advice on how to get started? I’d love to take this camera on my boat (getting on topic here….) and take some nice scenic photos on the freshwater lake and maybe get a closeup photos of a Great Blue Heron or something. Thanks…. Butch Ammon
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The guys around here who shoot wading birds use a kayak and slip right up to them. I have seen guys on the flats that could get a decent shot with a cardboard Kodak. They are a paddle length from spoonbills and ibis. It is is slow process getting up to them, using wind and tide more than paddling. As long as there are no sudden moves and your line is broken up the birds don’t seem to care. Maybe that is why alligators do so well.
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Congratulations on the new camera. You now have TWO expensive hobbies. If you want to try for three, investigate RC Airplanes (-:}
Thanks…. And thanks to everyone else you replied. You all have given me great encouragement. It’s going to be a lot of fun. I already shot a roll of "sacrificial 24 exp. film" to experiment with the camera. It works fine and shoots really nice photos. Two or three photos were way underexposed, ’cause dummy me tried to take an indoor shot without a flash or I was goofing with different F-stops. But mostly they were nice photos. The nicest one that I shot was where I screwed on the 4x macro adapter/filter on the 50mm lens and went out to my garden after I watered it. I went right up to a pea pod about 2-3 inches away and snapped the shutter. The photo came out looking like something from National Geographic. Talk about close up! Wow! I have 200 speed film in it right now and that should be fine for boating. The camera also came with a Skylight filter that you screw onto the 50mm lens. Whatever that does, I have no idea. I want to pick up a UV filter at the camera store, before I take the camera out in the boat. Thanks again for the great advice! Butch Ammon
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Wow, boat and camera expertise! Very good response.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Question: I am a simple point-n-shoot, novice photographer. This Canon AV-1 (it’s the step-down model from the famous Canon AE-1 Program) has all sorts of buttons, F-Stops, Film Speeds, and is all auto exposure, apature priority, kind of a camera. It’s really great and I need to understand it and what different film speeds do. I know an apature like F-16 is like a pinhole on the shudder for taking bright sun photos, and F2 or even F1.8 is for dusk or nighttime photos. At least that’s as much as I know. Here’s a basic rundown on the relationship between apature and shutter speed and the effects of both. Each stop of the lens lets in half the amount of light than the last ie f8 lets in half the light of f5,6. Same with the clicks on the shutter speed ie 250 lets in 1/2 the speed of of 125 (a quick aside here, you’ll have one speed either in red or with a lightning bolt that designates shutter synch speed, never shoot with a strobe Faster than this speed, you’ll have a line across your picture, you can however use a slower speed to allow ambient light saturation). The aperature controls the depth of field, that is how deep things will stay in focus, shooting at f1,4 with a 50mm lens, when you focus on something, you’ll only have a focal plane of a few inches, shooting at f22 nearly everything from the very foreground to infinity will be in focus. Shutter speed is dictated by the movement of the subject and yourself, a general rule of thumb is dont use a shutterspeed lower than the lens lenght in mm in order to avoid a shaken blurred picture, although using panning techniques you may get a desireable effect using a slower speed. Depending on the desired effect you can balance the light level using both aperature and shutter speed to maintain an exposure level through a wide range of aperature and speed settings. There are many many books on the subject of photography. http://hometown.aol.com/hlaviation/
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Can anyone who has a Canon or used a Canon SLR camera, give me some advice on how to get started? I’d love to take this camera on my boat (getting on topic here….) and take some nice scenic photos on the freshwater lake and maybe get a closeup photos of a Great Blue Heron or something. Thanks….
Honestly, see if your local community college offers a photography course. You’ll learn a LOT, very quickly, and it’s a bunch of fun. Dan — Grimstari is weird. I mean you guys are the quintissential example of absolute, complete, unadulterated, total, inexplicable, mind-blowing, boggling weirdity. — Some idiot on GTQ, a loooong time ago. (Jeff Stewart, according to mikeb)
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Nice camera. Any library will have loads of photography books from the ’70s-’80s that have all the info you need. Anything with "basic" in the title is a plus. This is the fastest and easiest way to learn. Go through one of those books and you’re all set. GTO(John) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Hey there…. I was reading through some posts that got into the topic of cameras, both film and digital. I don’t have a digital camera (I bum my company’s camera, if I need one), but my wife and I have a simple, point -n shoot Kodak 35mm camera. Someone spoke of SLR cameras. Would you believe that over the weekend, a friend **GAVE ME** an old Canon AV-1 35mm SLR camera with a 50mm lens and a 135mm lens and flash unit? TOTALLY FREE! The guy was like, "Hey, I’m into the digital age and have two very nice digital cameras. You want my old 35mm camera? Heck, man, take it… I have no need for it anymore. Incredible!! This camera was bought new in 1982 and still works like a charm. I replaced the battery and gently cleaned the lenses with lens tissue. It’s perfectly fine. Question: I am a simple point-n-shoot, novice photographer. This Canon AV-1 (it’s the step-down model from the famous Canon AE-1 Program) has all sorts of buttons, F-Stops, Film Speeds, and is all auto exposure, apature priority, kind of a camera. It’s really great and I need to understand it and what different film speeds do. I know an apature like F-16 is like a pinhole on the shudder for taking bright sun photos, and F2 or even F1.8 is for dusk or nighttime photos. At least that’s as much as I know. Can anyone who has a Canon or used a Canon SLR camera, give me some advice on how to get started? I’d love to take this camera on my boat (getting on topic here….) and take some nice scenic photos on the freshwater lake and maybe get a closeup photos of a Great Blue Heron or something. Thanks…. Butch Ammon
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Question: I am a simple point-n-shoot, novice photographer. This Canon AV-1 (it’s the step-down model from the famous Canon AE-1 Program) has all sorts of buttons, F-Stops, Film Speeds, and is all auto exposure, apature priority, kind of a camera. It’s really great and I need to understand it and what different film speeds do. I know an apature like F-16 is like a pinhole on the shudder for taking bright sun photos, and F2 or even F1.8 is for dusk or nighttime photos. At least that’s as much as I know.
Here’s a basic rundown on the relationship between apature and shutter speed and the effects of both. Each stop of the lens lets in half the amount of light than the last ie f8 lets in half the light of f5,6. Same with the clicks on the shutter speed ie 250 lets in 1/2 the speed of of 125 (a quick aside here, you’ll have one speed either in red or with a lightning bolt that designates shutter synch speed, never shoot with a strobe Faster than this speed, you’ll have a line across your picture, you can however use a slower speed to allow ambient light saturation). The aperature controls the depth of field, that is how deep things will stay in focus, shooting at f1,4 with a 50mm lens, when you focus on something, you’ll only have a focal plane of a few inches, shooting at f22 nearly everything from the very foreground to infinity will be in focus. Shutter speed is dictated by the movement of the subject and yourself, a general rule of thumb is dont use a shutterspeed lower than the lens lenght in mm in order to avoid a shaken blurred picture, although using panning techniques you may get a desireable effect using a slower speed. Depending on the desired effect you can balance the light level using both aperature and shutter speed to maintain an exposure level through a wide range of aperature and speed settings. There are many many books on the subject of photography. http://hometown.aol.com/hlaviation/
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Hmm…I’m considering taking my camera out on a kayak ride in Pensacola Bay this weekend. It’s a 35mm SLR, automated enough that I can pretty much point and click while I learn to use it; it’s capable of being set to full- manual.
Better yet, go to WalMart and buy a disposable camera for outdoor pictures. That way you won’t ruin your SLR because I GUARANTEE you will get salt spray on it in that kayak, even if you don’t roll over and have the camera in a plastic bag. The only way I’d take that SLR kayaking is in a diver’s case made to take pictures at 100′…..TIED TO A FLOAT! Larry
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I had an AV-1. Good camera, but backwards. Most SLRs you set the shutter speed and the electronics sets the aperture for the correct exposure. On the AV-1 that’s backwards. You set the aperature, which sets the depth of field that will be in focus (higher f-stops, more depth of field) and the electronics sets the shutter speed for you. After you get used to this odd setup, it’s a great little camera…… I gave mine to my dad about 10 years ago, with 6 lenses from fisheye to a 200mm zoom lens. Nice present! Go to a camera shop that specializes in that brand and ask them to order you an owner’s manual for it. $10-15 is still a bargain…(c; – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Hey there…. I was reading through some posts that got into the topic of cameras, both film and digital. I don’t have a digital camera (I bum my company’s camera, if I need one), but my wife and I have a simple, point -n shoot Kodak 35mm camera. Someone spoke of SLR cameras. Would you believe that over the weekend, a friend **GAVE ME** an old Canon AV-1 35mm SLR camera with a 50mm lens and a 135mm lens and flash unit? TOTALLY FREE! The guy was like, "Hey, I’m into the digital age and have two very nice digital cameras. You want my old 35mm camera? Heck, man, take it… I have no need for it anymore. Incredible!! This camera was bought new in 1982 and still works like a charm. I replaced the battery and gently cleaned the lenses with lens tissue. It’s perfectly fine. Question: I am a simple point-n-shoot, novice photographer. This Canon AV-1 (it’s the step-down model from the famous Canon AE-1 Program) has all sorts of buttons, F-Stops, Film Speeds, and is all auto exposure, apature priority, kind of a camera. It’s really great and I need to understand it and what different film speeds do. I know an apature like F-16 is like a pinhole on the shudder for taking bright sun photos, and F2 or even F1.8 is for dusk or nighttime photos. At least that’s as much as I know. Can anyone who has a Canon or used a Canon SLR camera, give me some advice on how to get started? I’d love to take this camera on my boat (getting on topic here….) and take some nice scenic photos on the freshwater lake and maybe get a closeup photos of a Great Blue Heron or something. Thanks…. Butch Ammon
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Kodak also has a ton of info online at www.kodak.com Doftya
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I have an A-1 from the 80’s. It survived being driven over by my 75 Pontiac GP. Just smashed the lens. Popped a new lenses on and kept on shooting. Just set the lens on A for automatic and the camera on automatic until you get more familiar with film speeds, shutter and Aperture priority,debth of field, ect…. For the boat, 100 speed film would be best with the 50 and 135 mm lens. That camera will take great pictures!! Canon makes great lenses. Kodak makes a good book to explain photography 101. Can’t remember the name though. Any good camera shop should have it or one similiar. Have fun !!!!! Hey there…. I was reading through some posts that got into the topic of cameras, both film and digital. I don’t have a digital camera (I bum my company’s camera, if I need one), but my wife and I have a simple, point -n shoot Kodak 35mm camera. Someone spoke of SLR cameras. Would you believe that over the weekend, a friend **GAVE ME** an old Canon AV-1 35mm SLR camera with a 50mm lens and a 135mm lens and flash unit? TOTALLY FREE! The guy was like, "Hey, I’m into the digital age and have two very nice digital cameras. You want my old 35mm camera? Heck, man, take it… I have no need for it anymore. Incredible!! This camera was bought new in 1982 and still works like a charm. I replaced the battery and gently cleaned the lenses with lens tissue. It’s perfectly fine. Question: I am a simple point-n-shoot, novice photographer. This Canon AV-1 (it’s the step-down model from the famous Canon AE-1 Program) has all sorts of buttons, F-Stops, Film Speeds, and is all auto exposure, apature priority, kind of a camera. It’s really great and I need to understand it and what different film speeds do. I know an apature like F-16 is like a pinhole on the shudder for taking bright sun photos, and F2 or even F1.8 is for dusk or nighttime photos. At least that’s as much as I know. Can anyone who has a Canon or used a Canon SLR camera, give me some advice on how to get started? I’d love to take this camera on my boat (getting on topic here….) and take some nice scenic photos on the freshwater lake and maybe get a closeup photos of a Great Blue Heron or something. Thanks…. Butch Ammon
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Hey there…. I was reading through some posts that got into the topic of cameras, both film and digital. I don’t have a digital camera (I bum my company’s camera, if I need one), but my wife and I have a simple, point -n shoot Kodak 35mm camera. Someone spoke of SLR cameras. Would you believe that over the weekend, a friend **GAVE ME** an old Canon AV-1 35mm SLR camera with a 50mm lens and a 135mm lens and flash unit? TOTALLY FREE! The guy was like, "Hey, I’m into the digital age and have two very nice digital cameras. You want my old 35mm camera? Heck, man, take it… I have no need for it anymore. Incredible!! This camera was bought new in 1982 and still works like a charm. I replaced the battery and gently cleaned the lenses with lens tissue. It’s perfectly fine. Question: I am a simple point-n-shoot, novice photographer. This Canon AV-1 (it’s the step-down model from the famous Canon AE-1 Program) has all sorts of buttons, F-Stops, Film Speeds, and is all auto exposure, apature priority, kind of a camera. It’s really great and I need to understand it and what different film speeds do. I know an apature like F-16 is like a pinhole on the shudder for taking bright sun photos, and F2 or even F1.8 is for dusk or nighttime photos. At least that’s as much as I know. Can anyone who has a Canon or used a Canon SLR camera, give me some advice on how to get started? I’d love to take this camera on my boat (getting on topic here….) and take some nice scenic photos on the freshwater lake and maybe get a closeup photos of a Great Blue Heron or something. Thanks…. Butch Ammon
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I have an A-1 from the 80’s. It survived being driven over by my 75 Pontiac GP. Just smashed the lens. Popped a new lenses on and kept on shooting. Just set the lens on A for automatic and the camera on automatic until you get more familiar with film speeds, shutter and Aperture priority,debth of field, ect…. For the boat, 100 speed film would be best with the 50 and 135 mm lens. That camera will take great pictures!! Canon makes great lenses. Kodak makes a good book to explain photography 101. Can’t remember the name though. Any good camera shop should have it or one similiar. Have fun !!!!! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Hey there…. I was reading through some posts that got into the topic of cameras, both film and digital. I don’t have a digital camera (I bum my company’s camera, if I need one), but my wife and I have a simple, point -n shoot Kodak 35mm camera. Someone spoke of SLR cameras. Would you believe that over the weekend, a friend **GAVE ME** an old Canon AV-1 35mm SLR camera with a 50mm lens and a 135mm lens and flash unit? TOTALLY FREE! The guy was like, "Hey, I’m into the digital age and have two very nice digital cameras. You want my old 35mm camera? Heck, man, take it… I have no need for it anymore. Incredible!! This camera was bought new in 1982 and still works like a charm. I replaced the battery and gently cleaned the lenses with lens tissue. It’s perfectly fine. Question: I am a simple point-n-shoot, novice photographer. This Canon AV-1 (it’s the step-down model from the famous Canon AE-1 Program) has all sorts of buttons, F-Stops, Film Speeds, and is all auto exposure, apature priority, kind of a camera. It’s really great and I need to understand it and what different film speeds do. I know an apature like F-16 is like a pinhole on the shudder for taking bright sun photos, and F2 or even F1.8 is for dusk or nighttime photos. At least that’s as much as I know. Can anyone who has a Canon or used a Canon SLR camera, give me some advice on how to get started? I’d love to take this camera on my boat (getting on topic here….) and take some nice scenic photos on the freshwater lake and maybe get a closeup photos of a Great Blue Heron or something. Thanks…. Butch Ammon
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Butch, Try this as a starting point. <http://www.photographytips.com/. Found that by doing a search on altavista with <"how to" near camera as my criteria. BTW it returned 134,244 pages. Cheers, Ross – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey there…. I was reading through some posts that got into the topic of cameras, both film and digital. I don’t have a digital camera (I bum my company’s camera, if I need one), but my wife and I have a simple, point -n shoot Kodak 35mm camera. Someone spoke of SLR cameras. Would you believe that over the weekend, a friend **GAVE ME** an old Canon AV-1 35mm SLR camera with a 50mm lens and a 135mm lens and flash unit? TOTALLY FREE! The guy was like, "Hey, I’m into the digital age and have two very nice digital cameras. You want my old 35mm camera? Heck, man, take it… I have no need for it anymore. Incredible!! This camera was bought new in 1982 and still works like a charm. I replaced the battery and gently cleaned the lenses with lens tissue. It’s perfectly fine. Question: I am a simple point-n-shoot, novice photographer. This Canon AV-1 (it’s the step-down model from the famous Canon AE-1 Program) has all sorts of buttons, F-Stops, Film Speeds, and is all auto exposure, apature priority, kind of a camera. It’s really great and I need to understand it and what different film speeds do. I know an apature like F-16 is like a pinhole on the shudder for taking bright sun photos, and F2 or even F1.8 is for dusk or nighttime photos. At least that’s as much as I know. Can anyone who has a Canon or used a Canon SLR camera, give me some advice on how to get started? I’d love to take this camera on my boat (getting on topic here….) and take some nice scenic photos on the freshwater lake and maybe get a closeup photos of a Great Blue Heron or something. Thanks…. Butch Ammon
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey there…. I was reading through some posts that got into the topic of cameras, both film and digital. I don’t have a digital camera (I bum my company’s camera, if I need one), but my wife and I have a simple, point -n shoot Kodak 35mm camera. Someone spoke of SLR cameras. Would you believe that over the weekend, a friend **GAVE ME** an old Canon AV-1 35mm SLR camera with a 50mm lens and a 135mm lens and flash unit? TOTALLY FREE! The guy was like, "Hey, I’m into the digital age and have two very nice digital cameras. You want my old 35mm camera? Heck, man, take it… I have no need for it anymore. Incredible!! This camera was bought new in 1982 and still works like a charm. I replaced the battery and gently cleaned the lenses with lens tissue. It’s perfectly fine. Question: I am a simple point-n-shoot, novice photographer. This Canon AV-1 (it’s the step-down model from the famous Canon AE-1 Program) has all sorts of buttons, F-Stops, Film Speeds, and is all auto exposure, apature priority, kind of a camera. It’s really great and I need to understand it and what different film speeds do. I know an apature like F-16 is like a pinhole on the shudder for taking bright sun photos, and F2 or even F1.8 is for dusk or nighttime photos. At least that’s as much as I know. Can anyone who has a Canon or used a Canon SLR camera, give me some advice on how to get started? I’d love to take this camera on my boat (getting on topic here….) and take some nice scenic photos on the freshwater lake and maybe get a closeup photos of a Great Blue Heron or something. Thanks…. Butch Ammon
Hmm…I’m considering taking my camera out on a kayak ride in Pensacola Bay this weekend. It’s a 35mm SLR, automated enough that I can pretty much point and click while I learn to use it; it’s capable of being set to full- manual. I’m not much more than a beginner, myself; here are some links I found when I got my Canon Rebel: Canon Hall of Fame (might have info on your camera) http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/ New York Institute of Photography http://www.nyip.com/ PhotoForum Home http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/photoforum.html There are a few good photog newsgroups: alt.photography rec.photo rec.photo.35mm rec.photo.help rec.photo.misc –J.
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