05-10-2006, 06:21 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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DIGITAL CAMARAS
Not that many years ago the digital camera would have cost you $1000 and it was the size of a football. Now a days you can buy them for $50 and they will fit in your shirt pocket, hell you can even get a phone with a built in camera now. Most all professionals are converting to digital now because they don’t want to be left behind. The 35mm SLR is losing out slowly for a couple of reasonsâ€.¦
- Film/processingâ€..?With 35mm you took the picture then, you had to go to a photo developer to get them to turn your roll of film into prints, this could consume days and lots of money. What you got back was all you had, no chance of working out the problems with the photo; you were at the mercy of the developers.
- If you could develop your own pictures it took a lot of time and money because of the chemicals and equipment you needed to have. The art of darkroom workâ€..?is just that “an artâ€.?. It took a lot of practice to learn and besides who wants to dedicate half of their home to darkroom status and then play in deadly chemicals for hours.
So why even own a 35mm camera? The one thing the digital camera has not been able to do is match picture quality, but all of that is changing now. 35’s capture light on film and imprint an image that is true to exactly what is allowed thru the lens to the unexposed film (it’s a chemical reaction). Digital camera’s have to reproduce the image using a computer chip and create the image using a series of colored squares (pixels) and then store it to memory. The first digitals used a floppy disk to store the information. Have you ever tried to load a picture onto a floppyâ€..?lol. Today, memory cards will fit on the end of your fingertip and hold 100’s of images.
The days of the darkroom are gone, now you can develop your own images, usually with software provided with your camera or just use Window’s media. If you want to own a digital darkroom, then there is just one name “Adobe Photoshopâ€.?. You can now turn your darkroom into a mobile operation. Just take you laptop computer and go. The coolest thing to me about digital is “the film is free, take all you wantâ€..?if you don’t like what you takeâ€.¦deleteâ€.¦deleteâ€.¦delete and you haven’t spend a dime! Only print what you want and put the rest on CD’s for later use.
If you are going to buy a digital camera, here are some thoughts to consider before purchasingâ€.¦
1. What are you going to use it for? Are you going to take snapshots on vacation or pics of the kids and all your activities. Then you only need 3-4 mega pixels, which will print 8x10’s without losing image quality. If you want to print bigger than that then you will need more pixel power. Most people will never print larger than 8x10.
2. What features do you want? Do you want to control all the settings or do you want an automatic that will just point and shoot. It’s all your call.
Then there are people like me who would like to one day soon start making money taking pictures and do it as a professional. Well, don’t fearâ€..?you got the money, it’s out there. Nikon and Canon have waged a war to see who can out do the other one and the serious picture takers are getting some digital cams that blow away the best 35’s have to offer. Nikon now offers a 20 mega pixel camera, and all those 100 different lens they make for the pro film cameras fit right on the digitals. The Pro’s only have to buy the camera body to go digital.
One last thing “Printing your digital picturesâ€.?. It’s as easy as going to a place like Wal-Mart or an Office Depot buying some photo paper and picture quality ink for your home printer and doing it yourself. You can always edit your pictures and email them to your photo shop and let them print them for you, or take the card out of the camera and take it to Wal-Mart, pop it in their machine and tell it what you want. How easy is that? Now get off of your bum and go take me some pictures. I’m waitingâ€.¦
if you have any questions post em.....
"Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late." — William Shakespeare: 16th-17th century English poet and playwright
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