

The first cameras were primitive light-tight boxes made to suspend a lens a certain distance away from a focal plane of film. These simple boxes of cardboard or wood quickly evolved into beautiful assemblies of shiny metal. Over the next fifty years, cameras became smaller, incrementally more automated, more reliable, and easier to use. Limited in spec, but good. Now, if we jump forward fifty years from then, there’s really no comparison.īy the mid-1950s, cameras still required a dedicated user who knew what he or she was doing in order to make a proper image, but the cameras of the 1950s were overall very good cameras. Film cameras made between 19 are objectively the best film cameras in the world, and I want more people to buy them now while they can be bought for, like, $60. I feel like it’s important for me to make my argument in the simplest and most compelling way possible. But instead of doing that, here are a bunch of strange metaphors and questionably relevant analyses (did you expect something else? wrong site, my pal).įor the purposes of the following argument, I’ve selected the Leica M3 as my fall guy, because it’s the classically accepted “perfect film camera.” But the comparison will be as appropriate when substituting the Leica for something like the Nikon F3, Contax T2, or any other film camera du jour. That’s french, by the way, for film camera of the day.įor my “good guy” in the fight, I’ve selected a boring, inexpensive, passover camera from the year 2000 – the Minolta Maxxum 5.

No one has ever lusted after this camera or any camera like it.

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These values are often referred to as the three “Fs”, for short: food, filter and fish habitat. Our native eastern oysters ( Crassostrea virginica) provide these vital functions free of charge.įood – Oysters support a viable commercial and recreational fishery that is an important part of North Carolina’s cultural heritage and economy. Oyster reefs support the production of more crabs and finfish valued at over $62 million annually.įilter – As filter feeders, oysters remove harmful pollutants, sediment and excess algae from the water. An adult is capable of filtering up to 50 gallons of water a day. As oysters filter, they also provide an important link in the estuarine food web by transferring nutrients from the surface (plankton) to the bottom (benthos).įish Habitat – Oyster reefs provide essential habitat for a diverse collection of aquatic animals, including many important commercial and recreational fish species. Oyster cultch planting Restoring Oysters and Water Quality One healthy oyster reef can be home to more than an estimated 300 different adult and juvenile organisms including southern flounder, shrimp, clams and blue crabs.
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Oyster habitat in North Carolina ranges from deep water reefs in the Pamlico Sound (sub-tidal) to low relief patch reefs in intertidal waters and reefs fringing salt marshes along our estuarine shorelines (intertidal). We are the only state that has both types of reefs on our coast. We are lucky that enough of our oyster population remains to produce larvae to repopulate reefs in most of our estuaries North Carolina is in far less dire straits than the Chesapeake Bay, so there’s hope.
