This post accompanies the latest 3DLANES podcast episode discussing the Nikon FM2, its origins, its place in photography history, and the competitive landscape at the time of its introduction. The Nikon FM2 was positioned between enthusiast and professional-grade equipment, a flagship-level camera at a mid-tier price. It remained in production for 19 years (1982–2001), becoming […]
October 1981.The manual-focus SLR market was mature, crowded, and tightening. Feature differentiation was incremental, competition was fierce, and margins were compressing. Minolta needed a camera that could defend its position in the mid-tier consumer segment without overextending into professional territory. Enter the Minolta XG-M, marketed in Japan as the X-70 and arriving there in 1982,
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This time around I would like to talk about a camera that has been my gateway into photography again. Introduced in April 1981, a 35mm SLR that packed all the tech available at the time, and then some. It’s predecessor, the Canon AE-1. Of course you read it on the title, I am talking about
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Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you have been following this space, I have been shooting film for a while now. I am certainly no Influencer Expert, I just love the thought process that film makes me go through. Recently I published a post where I go into the why I started shooting film
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