This has led him to being a go-to expert for camera and lens reviews, photo and lighting tutorials, as well as industry news, rumors and analysis for publications like Digital Camera Magazine, PhotoPlus: The Canon Magazine, N-Photo: The Nikon Magazine, Digital Photographer and Professional Imagemaker, as well as hosting workshops and talks at The Photography Show. He also serves as a judge for the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest. In this time he shot for clients like Aston Martin Racing, Elinchrom and L'Oréal, in addition to shooting campaigns and product testing for Olympus, and providing training for professionals. The editor of Digital Camera World, James has 21 years experience as a journalist and started working in the photographic industry in 2014 (as an assistant to Damian McGillicuddy, who succeeded David Bailey as Principal Photographer for Olympus). For more information, visit the Japanese crowdfunding page. It still has some way to go to meet its target of ¥3,500,000 ($33,423 / £25,873 / AU$47,525), but it has until 24 December to reach it. The Nons SL42 is currently available for ¥34,500 (approximately $329 / £255 / AU$468) if backed with the ultra-early discount, while its standard price will be ¥43,100 ($412 / £319 / AU$585). The cameras possesses a hot shoe (although it appears to be a cold show on the early images of the prototype) on which you can mount a flash or radio trigger. It features a cool vintage SLR-style body, befitting the DSLR lenses you can mount to it – including M42 lenses, via an adapter included in the box. As you might imagine, there are no electrical contacts to control the lens you attach, so you'll be operating everything manually. It measures 158 x 65 x 116mm and weighs in at 462g, and is powered by two AA batteries. I look forward to shooting with this camera again this weekend.Like most instant cameras the Nons SL42 is quite a chunky device, as it accommodates large film packs. One thing I will do differently going forward is turn the aperture ring off the “A” mark setting and experiment more with the aperture settings and depth of field. I already shot another roll of black and white film and am excited to see how those photos also turn out. It is encouraging to see how these shots turned out using the Canon AE-1. The next photo is the same shot but focused on the path instead of the leaves. The first photo I intentionally focused on the leaves, hoping the background would be blurry. Please note, the two photos below are the same shots, just focused differently. Taking a photo with this camera is a lot different than using a point and shoot and obviously different than an iPhone so it’s easy to accidentally move the camera when shooting. A few photos turned out focused, but others are a little blurry and that could be either from not focusing properly or from a shaky trigger finger causing the camera to move when taking the photo. I also need to practice focusing and steadying my shot. I believe this occurred by not rewinding the film the entire way. Therefore, when scrolling through the photos, you will see some have a bright line or two going through the middle. I opened the back of the camera and immediately closed it when I saw the film had not been fully rewound. When rewinding the film for the first time, I stopped with the film counter at “S” and should have kept rewinding, as the “S” does not always mean it’s the end of the film roll. I adjusted the aperture back to auto and the following photos are acceptable, but they may have been a little more interesting if I wasn’t using the automatic exposure mode. I incorrectly set the aperture to another setting which provided the great shots below with the bokeh (blurry) backgrounds. The user manual suggests setting the aperture ring to the “A” mark for automatic exposure. My first few photos were not shot according to the manual and yet somehow turned out to be my favorites. I found the manual online, watched a few YouTube videos, loaded a roll of Kodak T-Max 100 film and just started shooting. I decided to stop avoiding the inevitable and learn how to shoot the Canon AE-1 camera below. How do I learn to use the proper aperture, setting the ISO/ASA, lighting, etc? Even just loading the film is intimidating. I’ve avoided using an SLR camera with all of the different settings. The past few months I’ve only shot with Polaroid and point and shoot cameras. I’ve never used a 35mm SLR camera before.
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