First of all, let me explain that I'm not a professional photographer, nor am I an expert in the digital aspect of photography. But I'm willing to share what little knowledge I have on the subject and if I don't have an answer to a question, I might know where to find it and post a link to it.
I've been interested in photography most of my life and I got my first camera (a Roy Rogers box camera) from Santa when I was around 7 or 8 years old. I used that camera until after I was married. I was developing B&W film and doing some darkroom work by the time I was 11. The Roy Rogers nameplate, on the front of the camera, was made of metal and held on with two small screws. I reversed that nameplate, when I started going to motorcycle events, like hill climbs and scrambles (before motocross days), in order to save embarrassment. The flash attachment used the Blue Dot flash bulbs, which many of you probably have never seen or heard of. I wish I had a dollar for every time I burned my fingers on those bulbs!...:lol:
I finally purchased my first 35mm camera (Minolta SRT101) when I was working on the construction of the World Trade Center in NYC in 1973. It didn't take me long to be disappointed and discouraged with the results I was getting, so I took some night courses at a photography school that was a few blocks from work. It's amazing what learning the basics can do. Film photography can get expensive, so to save money and have more control, I bought film in bulk, loaded my own cassettes, developed the film, and did my own prints, in my own darkroom.
I shied away from digital at first, because the equipment was expensive and the quality sucked. Around 2000, I finally bought my first digital, a Sony Mavica 1.3 megapixel, which cost $575 at WalMart. It recorded pics on a 3.5" floppy disc, which only held around dozen shots. After a couple years of that frustration, I got a refurbished Minolta DiMage 7, which was on the high end of point and shoots. Then I discovered the digital darkroom known as Photoshop and how much better quality can be gotten by shooting in RAW format, which the D-7 was capable of. The fixed lens then became a limiting factor and I started shopping for a DSLR. I ended up with the Canon MK IIN, which was the favorite tool of sports photogs, because it will shoot 8.5 frames per second at highest resolution and bursts around 40. It also has the capability of shooting RAW and JPEG simultaneously and can record on two different memory cards simultaneously. It won't keep up with today's models, but it still does a pretty good job...
All the shots on this thread were taken with the Canon ~~~> http://www.sidexsideworld.com/viewtopic.php?p=218269#218269
So, if you have any questions about cameras, lenses, composition, lighting, etc., ask away and I'll try to find the answer...
I've been interested in photography most of my life and I got my first camera (a Roy Rogers box camera) from Santa when I was around 7 or 8 years old. I used that camera until after I was married. I was developing B&W film and doing some darkroom work by the time I was 11. The Roy Rogers nameplate, on the front of the camera, was made of metal and held on with two small screws. I reversed that nameplate, when I started going to motorcycle events, like hill climbs and scrambles (before motocross days), in order to save embarrassment. The flash attachment used the Blue Dot flash bulbs, which many of you probably have never seen or heard of. I wish I had a dollar for every time I burned my fingers on those bulbs!...:lol:
I finally purchased my first 35mm camera (Minolta SRT101) when I was working on the construction of the World Trade Center in NYC in 1973. It didn't take me long to be disappointed and discouraged with the results I was getting, so I took some night courses at a photography school that was a few blocks from work. It's amazing what learning the basics can do. Film photography can get expensive, so to save money and have more control, I bought film in bulk, loaded my own cassettes, developed the film, and did my own prints, in my own darkroom.
I shied away from digital at first, because the equipment was expensive and the quality sucked. Around 2000, I finally bought my first digital, a Sony Mavica 1.3 megapixel, which cost $575 at WalMart. It recorded pics on a 3.5" floppy disc, which only held around dozen shots. After a couple years of that frustration, I got a refurbished Minolta DiMage 7, which was on the high end of point and shoots. Then I discovered the digital darkroom known as Photoshop and how much better quality can be gotten by shooting in RAW format, which the D-7 was capable of. The fixed lens then became a limiting factor and I started shopping for a DSLR. I ended up with the Canon MK IIN, which was the favorite tool of sports photogs, because it will shoot 8.5 frames per second at highest resolution and bursts around 40. It also has the capability of shooting RAW and JPEG simultaneously and can record on two different memory cards simultaneously. It won't keep up with today's models, but it still does a pretty good job...
All the shots on this thread were taken with the Canon ~~~> http://www.sidexsideworld.com/viewtopic.php?p=218269#218269
So, if you have any questions about cameras, lenses, composition, lighting, etc., ask away and I'll try to find the answer...