Tencent Digital (John) may be unfamiliar to beginners who are just beginning to learn photography, but for senior photographers, manual cameras are not unfamiliar to them. Although the current SLR cameras have already been built The exposure detection system, but with the popularity of old-fashioned cameras in recent years, many photographers began to return to the era of film, began to use old-fashioned full manual camera to expand their creativity.
The retro classic camera has its unique charm. In recent years, the sales volume has been on the rise. Almost every auction website will quickly be sold out by collectors or camera enthusiasts after hanging out a classic camera. Of course, the price is also rising, because demand has far exceeded supply. In many cases, even buyers and sellers do not know whether the camera can be used normally, and put on the "untested" label for sale during the promotion.
In fact, I think that the most important component that needs to be tested is the shutter, whether it is a camera collector or a photography enthusiast or a dealer. The principle of the camera is very simple, just an opaque box plus a complex mechanical shutter. The shutter is the second most important part of the appropriate exposure. The first important thing is the lens.
This is why the Phochron XA shutter speed tester appeared. We need a quick and easy handheld device that tells us within minutes what shutter speed to use for the correct exposure, or whether the shutter needs to be repaired. Most of the time, you can compensate for the shutter speed by changing the film type or aperture size because most older cameras shutter speeds are slower than expected. The consistency of the shutter timing is also critical, and many of the shutters I tested had a number of timing inconsistencies.
If you can check both sides of the shutter, you can test it yourself. Unfortunately, most digital SLR cameras now do not see the back of the shutter because the back is where the camera sensor is located, so it is not possible to use our products to test digital SLRs. The use of the Phochron XA shutter speed tester makes it easy to test cartridges, large format cameras, toy cameras, large format cameras, and spot cameras. Polaroid cameras can also be used as long as you can reach both sides of the shutter, and shutter speeds below 1/8000 can be detected.
Indeed, the users of this tester are very limited, because digital cameras are the mainstream, but analog photography is also an important part of artistic creation. Vintage cameras produced by Lomography and Impossible project have become popular after the launch. Many film manufacturers have also started to restart them. Production line. Big-name makers such as Lycra and Volendam Nikon still produce and sell film cameras.
The goal of this crowd-raising event at Kickstarter is not to allow everyone to cool off an existing digital camera and to scouring a Canon AE1 in the 70s, but for those who already have these teachers’ cameras, there is such a Shutter test equipment is still very necessary.
The tester's panel has a built-in optical sensor that can test all types of shutters, even the curtain shutters used in SLR cameras. A deluxe version of the tester externally adds a plug-in module with two sensors that allow measurements on both edges of the film plane reflected by the 35mm lens. This is more versatile than the common tester's ability to detect modern curtain shutters. However, the 35mm SLR shutter system can be monitored in both basic and luxury versions.
Currently, the Phochron XA shutter speed tester base price is $109 (about RMB 734) on the Kickstarter website, and the deluxe tester is priced at $129 (about 869 yuan). Delivery begins in March.
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