![]() “Vintage” Analog Cameras You Can Buy Brand New ![]() The bottom line: If you want to capture nostalgic images that consistently look like they might have been shot 50 years ago, using a vintage medium format film camera is a great way to go. Also, vintage lenses render the subject in a noticeably different way than modern lenses, even if both are equally sharp, due to variations in contrast, gradation, and bokeh. That’s because the shooting characteristics of the camera and the photographer/camera interface are quite different. And portraits shot with, say, a medium-format twin-lens reflex have a qualitatively different look and feel from those shot with a full-frame SLR or DSLR. Digital images have a subjectively different look than images shot on film-even when you put them through one of those ingenious film-emulation apps. ![]() That’s why the photographic medium (film or digital) and the camera you use to take the picture have a much greater influence on the result than, say, an artist’s brush, or a writer’s pen. Sure, there’s truth in the cliché that the person behind the camera is the most important thing, but photography is a technologically based art form. If you want the past to be part of your future, there’s no better way than shooting modern vintage-look pictures with an old film camera-or a brand-new one that’s managed to survive the digital onslaught.
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