Canon 1Ds

The Camera That KILLED Film

Good morning you awesome war torn and nostalgic camera geeks! Just keeping you guys in the loop.

As a person trying to be a content creator I find myself running out of ideas, just like many “real” content creators I’m sure.

But as I look to these pages of the cameras, lenses, and things I’ve written about here on WordPress I realized I didn’t have to look far for material 😂

I could literally take the topics done here and make countless videos on them! Now I don’t think I’ll do that but I will do some of the ones I really liked.

So here in video form is one of the true digital Camera Legends that really bring me back to another time, a time when digital photography was coming into its own, a really exciting time for me.

The camera we’re talking about today is the Canon EOS 1Ds Original aka 1Ds Classic. In my opinion, this is the camera that caused the paradigm shift, the camera that made people take digital seriously, the camera that killed film!

Now I don’t mean that literally but I explain everything in the video and I also take the opportunity to thank two real world Camera Legends, Fred Miranda and the late great Michael Reichman 🙏🙏

Thank you guys too for reading, watching, I do appreciate your time because I know it is precious. Thank you! 😍👍

Camera Legend Camera Style :-)

On Instagram, “Camera Style” postings are seemingly very popular. In case you’re unfamiliar with what that is, it’s just shots of people with their cameras around town in cities and countries around the world. I’m not sure who started this trend, but I think it started with Tokyo Camera Style.

It’s a great idea actually, a win-win especially for views I guess. It’s basically “Camera Porn” and “Lens Porn” or  “Eye Candy” for a more softcore word! And what camera gear lover wouldn’t want to look at more cameras and lenses? 🙂

So in the spirit of Tokyo Camera Style and all the other “Camera Style” accounts out there, here’s mine…

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Today I spotted in the light NYC rain, a woman in Central Park, NYC, shooting with the original Canon EOS-1Ds, 11mp monster from 2001! A true digital Camera Legend. And on top of that, she had the delicious Super PHAT 85mm f/1.2L 😎👍🏻

I said that’s awesome kid! You’re right down my alley with that gear! 😍 I know a lot of you guys and gals shoot with the older stuff like I do, but I’ve not met too many in the real world who’s shooting with a digital camera this old. Everyone wants the latest and greatest. I said ROCK ON girl!

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Here’s what I shot with yesterday. Film was Fuji C200 color print film. The camera is the Olympus OM-3 that you may have seen before but what you have NOT seen until now is my favorite manual focus zoom lens and it’s the Zuiko 35-80mm f/2.8 😍

I got the lens like ten years ago. These lenses go for over $1000 but mine was under $300 😊

Why? It was the most optically “ugly” lens I’d ever seen! Inside looks like fungus, coatings deterioration, flakes inside the lens 😢

I was so bummed out when I got it. But even with all those flaws, this is the sharpest manual focus zoom I’ve ever used!! Praise the Zuiko gods! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Why did I shoot it this weekend? Hopefully to do a review for you guys! 😀

Hope you guys enjoyed this little bit of “Camera Style.” Maybe there will be more to come. Happy Tuesday folks! 😎📷😘✌🏻