joe_incognito
9th of February 2010 (Tue), 12:10
Hiya,
I'm new here and wanted to stop lurking and say a big hello to you all.
a brief intro:
A while ago, A friend was showing me some photos his brother had taken and 1 caught my eye. (nothing special, just a b&w picture of a bridge in the prairies) My friend explained that his brother had taken it with a $10 camera he had bought on ebay. the interesting part was that he entered the photo into a contest and won, (causing a bit of annoyance among some of the other photographers who had many thousands of $$$ in gear)
I thought this was rather cool, so I started looking into different cameras and stumbled upon WWPCD (worldwide pinhole camera day). Remembering pinhole cameras from elementary school, I thought it would be fun to give it a try, so I went to Value village and bought myself a piece of junk $4 manual camera, gutted it and made a pinhole lens. (I am in the process of experimenting with exposures right now) such fun.
Then I started researching SLRs, fstops, ISO, etc... and I almost said F*** it, too confusing. but I persisted and I think I might have a rudimentary understanding of it all.
So...about a month later and I am the proud owner of 2 circa 1969-1970 manual SLRs (1 miranda and 1 Argus) with lenses flashes and accessories, I also picked up a Yashica 200 AF with a couple of beautiful lenses (the camera had sat for at least a decade with batteries in it, so it required a bit of TLC)
My logic is if I want to learn about photography, I should start with low tech and work my way up to the big boy cameras (I'm saving my pennies as we speak)
As for digital...I have my trusty S5is that I bought a couple of years ago. I point, I click and POW instant picture. Luv it!
So...basically, I have caught the bug, I look forward to learning much much more over the next little while.
Ok, no more rambling just wanted to say hi. :)
I'm new here and wanted to stop lurking and say a big hello to you all.
a brief intro:
A while ago, A friend was showing me some photos his brother had taken and 1 caught my eye. (nothing special, just a b&w picture of a bridge in the prairies) My friend explained that his brother had taken it with a $10 camera he had bought on ebay. the interesting part was that he entered the photo into a contest and won, (causing a bit of annoyance among some of the other photographers who had many thousands of $$$ in gear)
I thought this was rather cool, so I started looking into different cameras and stumbled upon WWPCD (worldwide pinhole camera day). Remembering pinhole cameras from elementary school, I thought it would be fun to give it a try, so I went to Value village and bought myself a piece of junk $4 manual camera, gutted it and made a pinhole lens. (I am in the process of experimenting with exposures right now) such fun.
Then I started researching SLRs, fstops, ISO, etc... and I almost said F*** it, too confusing. but I persisted and I think I might have a rudimentary understanding of it all.
So...about a month later and I am the proud owner of 2 circa 1969-1970 manual SLRs (1 miranda and 1 Argus) with lenses flashes and accessories, I also picked up a Yashica 200 AF with a couple of beautiful lenses (the camera had sat for at least a decade with batteries in it, so it required a bit of TLC)
My logic is if I want to learn about photography, I should start with low tech and work my way up to the big boy cameras (I'm saving my pennies as we speak)
As for digital...I have my trusty S5is that I bought a couple of years ago. I point, I click and POW instant picture. Luv it!
So...basically, I have caught the bug, I look forward to learning much much more over the next little while.
Ok, no more rambling just wanted to say hi. :)