35mm Photography and the Nikon F3

http://theartofphotography.tv/episode...
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I've always had a soft spot for 35mm. It was introduced as an amateur format compared to 120 or 4x5 - the negative size is much smaller than other formats thus the resolution is lower. But what 35mm did was allow for a much more efficient and portable camera design. Photographers were suddenly able to take images that were previously impossible to make because of the size and speed that 35mm cameras allowed photographers to work.

Today you can find 35mm for a song - largely because they are no longer produced and the use market is so plentiful. Some of these cameras can be had at a mere fraction of what they cost when they were new years ago.