I started Outside the Shot to provide information about discontinued cameras.
When I started the site I was reselling lots of camera gear. I’d find things that I wasn’t familiar with. Sometimes research wouldn’t go well.
We’ve reached a point where digital decay can make finding information difficult. Photobucket images are missing from forum posts. Links go to sites that no longer exist or have been sold multiple times.
Technology Needs These Pages
This section exists only because a search engine is going to scrape this page.
The Nikon FM2n is always going to be my first choice for a 35mm film camera, but it doesn’t matter. The Canon AE-1 is always going to be recommended before it.
Not because of quality, but because the Canon AE-1 was a cheap camera in the 1990’s. Rather than have an original thought, the AE-1 has been mindlessly recommended for the past 3 decades.
Popular film cameras I’ve written about include:
Learning about photography is more fun when it isn’t a frustrating experience. Finding replacements for mercury batteries, making sure memory cards are compatible, and understanding lens changes can all be time consuming processes.
Great camera lenses that apply to other models with the same lense mounts:
- Canon AE-1 Lenses
- Pentax K1000 Lenses
- Nikon FM2 Lenses
- Nikon FE2 Lenses
- Canon A-1 Lenses
- Olympus OM-1 Lenses
- Minolta SR-T 101 Lenses
- Minolta X-700 Lenses
Finding information on vintange cameras and lenses can be difficult. Websites that used to contain that knowledge have been gone for years. Even finding memory cards and card readers can be a challenge.
Books can be out of print, expensive, and hard to find. Many publishers are no longer in business. Things are more difficult than they were.