Josh
Personally, I'd be a little lost with just one camera body if it was
loaded with B&W film. I have several (not all slr's), but keep only one
loaded with B&W, and that is with Portra400BW today. I like having
choices of film almost as much as choices of lenses, and this
practically requires another body (which are as cheap as another lens).
I just reviewed right now, and have loaded Elitechrome 100s, Kodachrome
64, Kodak Gold400, Kodak Gold100, Portra 160NC as well as the B&W. I
still have a few empty cameras should I want to put in something else
which I keep on hand in the refrigerator. Obviously, you don't need that
much choice. But just a suggestion, but you might want to explore having
choices of film to shoot as well as choices of lens perspectives when
the photo moment comes. B&W is nice, but our world is in color.
Wayne
Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Dear Josh
>
> The classic set of lenses is the 50, 35 or 28, and the 135/3.5.
> All those lenses are both sharp and cheap and take 49mm filters.
> Once you have those, start exploring with your film & darkroom.
> Have fun!
>
> I also started at High School, originally with an Argus then a Retina IIa,
> making B&W magic in the darkroom.
>
> Tom
>
> On Tuesday, February 05, 2002 at 10:34, Josh Lohuis
> <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote re "Re: [OM] On the shores of James Bay" saying:
> ...
> > I don't agree with the "not great" lenses bit, but this did urge me to
> > act quickly. I bought my camera a one week later, and since then I have
> > taken a small photography intro at school, and I am currently enrolled in an
> > 8-week course with our city's only real professional photographer. As I
> > said earlier, film is not really a problem anymore so I think I'd like to
> > get a couple more lenses. Thanks to everyone again, I really appreciate all
> > your help. If you have anymore suggestions send them over, I'm all ears!!
>
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