Kickstarter: Reflex, a new analogue 35mm camera

I think you’re off the mark with your opening. LPs, cassette tapes and film rolls aren’t hot at all and are certainly not making a comeback. There have always been people with money to burn who want to stand out with their “individuality”: look at me being special with my analog camera!
That old junk is outdated for a reason, no sensible person is still interested in it. A record doesn’t sound better than a CD and a digital photo from a modern camera has a much higher quality than a print from a film roll. All that talk about a “vintage feel” cannot be substantiated in any way.
When I had my first digital compact for a year (3 mpix), I put a roll of Sensia in my analog Nikon once more. Curious about what it was like, because that camera was better after all, the old craft much more fun?
Well, not at all. I didn’t even shoot the whole roll, it’s still in that camera. The biggest problem with analog photography is that you have no idea what your result is.
The longing for retro is a sad case of decadence.

I have a question. What about NON-AI lenses and AI lenses? Which mount does it have? AI mount or NON-AI mount? Or can the Nikon FE use both lenses?
How is it with the light meter regarding AI and NON-AI lenses? Do we get stop-down metering?
Thanks in advance.

100 wrote on Saturday 25 November 2017 at 13:00  | reply

@RAWshooter

If you compare the number of photos taken with “real” digital cameras to the number of photos taken with smartphones, that is also a drop in the ocean. With your “logic”, everything other than smartphone photography is therefore also “a sad case of decadence”.

What exactly is your point now?
You say that no sensible person is interested in “old junk” like vinyl and that a record does not sound better than a CD. I give you figures showing that vinyl is growing and that it has been doing so for 7 years in a row, while CD sales have been declining for years. Worldwide, about 1 billion dollars’ worth of vinyl will be sold this year. For a turnover of a billion, you need quite a lot of people who are interested in it after all.

You have no “case”, only an opinion that all those people just want to show off with their “old-fashioned” records. You are of course entitled to that opinion, but that does not make it reality, let alone a fact.

100 wrote on Sunday 26 November 2017 at 00:04  | reply

@RAWshooter
You were the one who said “I rest my case,” so don't ask me why a response has to contain a case, those were your own words.
I am simply presenting you with the figures that show that your opinion, that no sensible person is interested in old junk like vinyl records, is incorrect.

Interesting to read, I photograph digitally, but have now bought a number of 35mm films, to use my old Minoltas again for a change with the corresponding SR lenses. Only the SRT101 is a problem with the batteries that no longer exist, is that bad? No, they even work without a battery, and then just without a light meter, simply have a look and try. Digitally you can expose a little more and a little less, and choose the best photo. So they don't always know either, you still have to think!

By the way, buying a new analogue camera, I don't think so. But using the old cameras does have something, although I don't know the result yet, the 35 mm film doesn't fit in the computer's SD slot