Film camera (Canon EOS) experiences?

[kmb]

Not sure if anybody else except René will have anything to say about the subject, but I would like to hear experiences regarding Canon EOS film backs and their usability in concerts.

I just ordered a dirt-cheap second-hand (obviously) EOS-3 to replace my EOS-1n, mainly because the EOS-1n had only one cross-type AF point (bad for composing subjects that won't stop moving).

[René Damkot]

Sorry, I only have used the Eos 1n and Eos 5 for concerts... Nothing so fancy as an Eos 3 :lol:

[kmb]

Okay then... I'll continue to listen to the crickets.

[narlus]

we are all digital children, kalle. :D




or at least i am...i've never operated a film SLR.

[londonblue007]

I used to shoot on a Minolta 207.... but never for concerts. sorry.

[kmb]

we are all digital children, kalle. :D

But film cameras have all sorts of scifi- and high end features, like eye controlled focus, 10 fps (EOS-1v for instance; so, the fastest full frame camera is a film camera).

And film photography can be a lot of fun. Or at least I believe using my Hasselblad (made in the fifties, fully mechanical) will be fun once I learn to breathe and focus it at the same time.

[S7000]

I've never used one at a concert. However I took my 1N to the football once and got some very nice shots out of it. I don't have anything scanned to show you though, sorry. The light was fairly low, however, still in a lit stadium, nothing like inside a venue. :p

[Jacob Dinesen]

Not sure if anybody else except René will have anything to say about the subject, but I would like to hear experiences regarding Canon EOS film backs and their usability in concerts.

I just ordered a dirt-cheap second-hand (obviously) EOS-3 to replace my EOS-1n, mainly because the EOS-1n had only one cross-type AF point (bad for composing subjects that won't stop moving).

I used an EOS3 for a year or so as my only camera and then for a year as back-up body.
It was perfectly ususable: a fine meter, a bright viewfinder, sensitive autofocus, responsive, great handling. Hmm...I shouldn't have sold mine.

An example; bear with the file...I didn't really know how to use Photoshop back then.

http://jacobdinesen.net/gallery/2004/Limp%20Bizkit,_Valby%20hallen,_2004/images/scan000357.jpg

[blackshadow]

I'm waiting on an EOS 3 to arrive too - I scored it on ebay and I plan on using it for mainly B&W stuff. I took out my old EOS 630 on Saturday and ran a couple of rolls of B&W through it when I went up to photograph the devastation from the Black Saturday bushfires.

Hopefully the EOS 3 will be here this week for me to start playing around with.

[geeewocka]

Sydney Tog Nic Bezzina just recently made the switch to the D3 after using film for many years as the venue photographer for Annandale Hotel, Blunt Magazine & now shooting in Vaig Studios

http://www.nicbezzina.com/
http://www.boudist.com/archive/2006/08/15/interview_with_nic_bezzina.php
"2nd hand fully manual Nikon FE2 and an 85mm lens"

[blackshadow]

Tony Mott (www.tonymott.com) has also made the move to digital although he still prefers film. He's a long time Nikon shooter and is using the D3 for digital.

My EOS 3 has arrived. I'll give it a whirl on the weekend to take some music shots at a small festival.

[kmb]

Photographed a club concert with the EOS-3. All other things seemed to be fine except auto focus was not nearly as good as on 5D or 1D mark 3 (would not lock/track in bad light). Otherwise it was rather fun. Shot a 36 roll film of Ilford Delta 3200 during the whole concert. I had to hurry at the end to get the whole film exposed (sent it yesterday to be developed, although I hope I'd have the time to develop BW films myself in the future.

[Colorblinded]

Interesting experience, I haven't used my EOS 3 in years. It's somewhat depressing to look at the big hulk of an EOS 3 with the PB-E2 booster looking mildly abandoned since I never cleaned off the grime when I stopped using it and it has a mixture of that and dust on it. Normally it's been kept in a bag wedged in the back of my closet the past four and a half years.

I shot a few concert-like events and didn't have any real trouble with the EOS 3 AF but I don't know how comparable the lighting conditions are.

Every time I think I should sell it I look at what they go for online, get depressed and put it back in my closet. I think I'll just keep it, never know when you'll want to shoot film, right? Heh, that argument gets weaker and weaker every time I use it to convince myself I might as well keep the 3 rather than take in the meager amount of cash selling it would generate.

[FlyingPhotog]

Sorry but all my film experience goes back to the FD days...

Never owned any EF film gear.

[kmb]

I shot a few concert-like events and didn't have any real trouble with the EOS 3 AF but I don't know how comparable the lighting conditions are.

I had something like 1/60 s - 1/125 s, f2.8, ISO 3200, distance to rather energetic performers was around 1,5-3 meters most of the time (so the percentage of the disance variation due to movement was rather high)