birdman59
15th of September 2008 (Mon), 20:18
Way back in the old days (1977), I bought my first 35mm camera. It was a Minolta XG7 bought when I was stationed in England. I really loved it and took lots of pictures and got better as time went on.
Fast forward a few years to when life catches up to you with a wife and kids and not enough money to last payday to payday and I had to sell the camera to pay the bills. I missed the hobby a lot.
Fast forward a few more years. My wife buys me my first digital camera as a Fathers day present (used my own credit card I had to pay for):confused:. It was a Vivitar 3.1mp POS. Quit working after about a year. Vivitar said tough cookies.
Second one was an HP 5mp. That one was better and still works. My son took an identical one to Iraq and took some beautiful photos.
My next camera is the one I currently own. A Canon sx100 is. I really LOVE this camera. I have taken some really beautiful photos and I learn a little from each one, so the next one is better than the last (I hope).
The main problem I had with a film camera is that you had to wait and see how the pictures came out and hopefully you kept really good notes. With digital, you don't have to pay for out of focus or generally crappy development. I use GIMP and Irfanview to post process some photos.
I will bracket some shots and read the exif info to see exposure info and hopefully I learn what works and what works better.
Fast forward a few years to when life catches up to you with a wife and kids and not enough money to last payday to payday and I had to sell the camera to pay the bills. I missed the hobby a lot.
Fast forward a few more years. My wife buys me my first digital camera as a Fathers day present (used my own credit card I had to pay for):confused:. It was a Vivitar 3.1mp POS. Quit working after about a year. Vivitar said tough cookies.
Second one was an HP 5mp. That one was better and still works. My son took an identical one to Iraq and took some beautiful photos.
My next camera is the one I currently own. A Canon sx100 is. I really LOVE this camera. I have taken some really beautiful photos and I learn a little from each one, so the next one is better than the last (I hope).
The main problem I had with a film camera is that you had to wait and see how the pictures came out and hopefully you kept really good notes. With digital, you don't have to pay for out of focus or generally crappy development. I use GIMP and Irfanview to post process some photos.
I will bracket some shots and read the exif info to see exposure info and hopefully I learn what works and what works better.