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look on ebay. yashica electro 35 and canon canonet 28/ql17/ql19 are pretty readily available for your price range. i'm currently watching 11. just look up reviews on them and google "best first rangefinder" or something to that effect. the camera nerds of the internet will have written everything you could ever want to hear about them
 
I second this as a really solid choice for a cheap 35mm rangefinder. I have a ql17 and I really like it. The lens is surprisingly sharp. 40mm is a perfect do it all focal length IMO.

If you are looking at SLRs too, an Olympus OM1 would be a great choice. Really well built, compact, and great lenses. Personally, they're my favorite manual SLRs. I wish I had one.
 
you can find them for really decent prices on fleabay. forgot to throw in my last minute bid on this nikon EM, it sold for $10.80 and is in immaculate condition

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i personally like my canon ae-1 just because so many lenses can be adapted to it. and there's a tiny bit of sentimental value behind it.
 
I've got 4 OM-1's... They're fucking fantastic. Hands down my favorite SLR ever build. Can't say a bad thing about them, except for maybe that the rings you attach your strap to might be positioned a little more to the side of the camera, but we're not even talking an 1/8th of an inch here. Probably half that. With lighter primes (which I like a lot) it tends to be a little lopsided. With heavier lenses, it's perfectly balanced.

Also, you forgot to add the OM-1 has the brightest, biggest hugetest (I know this ain't no english) viewfinder ever. It's everything I want in a camera.
 
What do you want in a camera? Do you want a fully manual camera or a camera with more auto features?

I shoot with a OM-1 (fully manual) and a Pentax ME (Aperture priority only) in conjunction. The OM-1 is such a great camera. It is very aesthetically pleasing, especially the black one, and the VF is very big and bright. You can shoot it without taking it from your eye if you can memorize the aperture and shutter clicks so that's nice. I have yet to shoot it much handheld as I have been using slow film with it and have been using a tripod 90% of the time, but comparing it to my ME, the ME feels nicer in the hand personally. It is rounder, feels smaller, and the faux leather is more grippy, but the OM-1 does just feel more solid.

Overall, if I were to have only one 35mm camera, I would have a very hard time Choosing between the ME Super and the OM-2 (both are cameras with Aperture Priority and full manual modes. The Pentax ME series and the Olympus OM series both have probably the biggest and brightest VFs compared to their Nikon, Canon, Minolta, etc counterparts.

I paid $80 for my OM-1n Black body (I overpaid a little) and I think around $30 for my ME, so quite a bit of difference there.
 
whats the best way to get an edit to flow with the beat of the song? is it best to first put in the song, then trim the shots so they fit in appropriately? i've always just done the editing of the video, then plopped the song on top. is there really any way to indicate where the beat is? i use fcpx. thanks!
 
Thats ass backwards. You definitely want to choose your song and put it on the timeline before you start adding clips to it. Idk how exactly to do it on FCPX but there is probably a way to show the waveform of the audio track, which sometimes helps with getting your cuts right on the beat.
 
Nikon D4s officially announced. Figured this deserved a place in this thread as it probably doesn't apply or matter to that many people. Fast frame rate, some crazy ISO specs, better movie & AF, smaller RAW files, this camera would be cool if it wasn't gonna cost an arm and a leg, but honestly not sure how huge of a step up it would be without actually trying it.
 
It's their mid-model refresh. Makes no sense to upgrade from the D4 but if you have no D4 get the S for resale value.
 
if i shoot video, or even pictures in cinestyle format, whats the best way to go about color grading these in fcpx?
 
I like grading most with the Luma Curve. Sometimes I use the standard color corrector (not the three-way) to match clip colors and white balance, but that's more color correction than grading.
 
cool, thanks! i just got a t4i, so i'm starting to play around more with aperture and fcpx to get better looking pictures/video.
 
are tablets like a wacom at all useful for video editing, or just mainly photo and graphic design? i'm focusing on video but also trying to build up my photography skills and was wondering if a tablet could help for both workflows. the intuos pen and touch is what caught my eye - http://www.amazon.com/Wacom-Intuos-Touch-Small-Tablet/dp/B00EN27U9U

I'm also a lefty and have been using a right handed mouse my whole life, so being able to use my left hand is appealing too
 
I can't picture it being all that useful for normal editing. I could see it coming in handy if you're doing heavy work in after effects though, for rotoscoping and motion tracking different layers of masks and such.
 
I'll be lucky enough to spend my fall traveling in Vietnam, Bolivia, and Morocco this year! I'm gonna need a new camera for this trip because I'd like something nicer than my X10 and I don't want to drag something big like my GH2 around when I don't want to get robbed.

Anyone have any thoughts? I'm thinking RX100 II?

 
When you do a lot of normal editing even, a tablet is much nicer than using a mouse. It's healthier for your wrist too.
 
It's a lot smaller than a DSLR, but not really anymore portable.

I don't want to deal with the whole interchangeable lens getup, I'd rather have something I can just put in a pocket when I don't want to look like I'm carrying an expensive camera.
 
Buy a brassed up Leica.Then no one apart from the ver occasional aficionado will assume that your camera's is worth several year's salaries.
 
I can fit my Gh2 + 20mm 1.7 in my pants pocket. I can fit three of those configurations in a hoodie pocket. Anything smaller is going to be a card-like point and shoot.
 
with a fixed 35mm f2 Zeiss lens and an amazing sensor, it's a true professional pocket camera
 
Video too? I'm just learning lightroom and not doing too much yet, but I could see it being useful in the future. I feel like to be worth it for me, though, I'd want to be able to use it well in premiere too
 
I'm speaking from a strictly video standpoint, so yeah. Doing any strenuous work on a computer is made more comfortable/safe by using a pen rather than a mouse. The only people I see using the Wacom as a substitute for a mouse are people who edit for a living, as in 40+ hours a week on the computer.
 
So I have a cousin who is running for district attorney and he wants me to shoot some campaign adds for him, just stuff that would be online. So what I'm asking is how much should I charge per video I make for him? They should all be around 30 seconds to a minute, any suggestions for how much?
 
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