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What Camera do you have?

nikokapo said:
Nikon D90
Nikkor AF VR 18-105mm f/3,5-5,6
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nice! I love that camera body but the D60 my first DSLR so I wasn't gonna spend 1k on a body LOL. I got my package on sale thats only reason got this one. LOL.
 





Niko,

I only have so much stuff because photography has been a hobby for me since a B&W Kodak 127 roll film camera came my way in 1964 when I was a kid. I've always loved to take a few photos. I really like digital because it frees me from funny smelling darkroom chemicals (used to do my own color film processing in the 70's and 80's), and gives me instant feedback with histograms, etc. I can then post-process in Photoshop as required to fix boo-boos, crop, sharpen, etc. Your D90 is a nice capable camera, I'm sure that you get a lot of good use out of it!

Bill.
 
billg519 said:
Niko,

I only have so much stuff because photography has been a hobby for me since a B&W Kodak 127 roll film camera came my way in 1964 when I was a kid. I've always loved to take a few photos. I really like digital because it frees me from funny smelling darkroom chemicals (used to do my own color film processing in the 70's and 80's), and gives me instant feedback with histograms, etc. I can then post-process in Photoshop as required to fix boo-boos, crop, sharpen, etc. Your D90 is a nice capable camera, I'm sure that you get a lot of good use out of it!

Bill.
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Film is fun though, I still develop my own b&w film, its kind of rewarding taking pictures and developing them your self, also b&w film can give you a look thats hard to reproduce with digital.
 
Yes, B&W film is quite unique and special. I wish that I hadn't sold my enlargers when I got out of color processing. Oh well, I should just get another sometime ... Film can give so many cool effects in the darkroom. Digital can't give the effects that special B&W films and darkroom techniques can provide. Can't beat the convenience of digital point, shoot, resize, post to LPF :).
 
Oh yeah, the D90 is all I ever wanted on a camera.

I'm aimed more towards digital, film rolls don't appeal to me very much, I like to snap 30 pictures of the same thing and then choose the best one. If I had a film camera I'd spend 30000 dollars everytime I go out to snap pictures of anything. (When I got my first film camera the roll didn't last me more than 4 minutes).
I got macro effect lenses from DX and although they don't offer perfect geometrics they introduce negligible chromatic aberration, they're good for macro shots, that's all.

I remember my estenopeic camera I built on 3rd year, B&W film + darkroom = 4 hours of hard work :p

I hope to gather that many lenses throughout my life :D I need somewhere to store them though.
 
I have two "still" cameras - one is my work camera and one is my art camera.

My work camera (the one I use mostly for taking pics of stuff to sell online) is a Fuji Fine Pix S700. It does a fine job of capturing nice Ebay auction photos, and usually takes decent laser beam shots (including the one in my avatar). The only thing it doesn't do very well is take good pics in really low light. Even though it has a night shot/low light setting it can't resolve much detail. It's a self-contained camera with an internal zoom.

My art camera (and one I'll never part with as long as they make actual film - btw it's nice to see some people still using film) is a Canon AE1 from the early 80's. It's on its 2nd shutter mechanism (it's an SLR) as I wore the first one out in college. With that camera I have a bunch of lenses, including a 28mm, a standard 50mm, a macro lens and a zoom lens. I also have a tripod (which also works with my old Sony camcorder that uses hi-8 cassettes, I haven't upgraded to digital in the video camera area) and a whole bunch of filters and a nice flash unit that can either be attached to the camera or can be triggered manually.

Digital is great when you need pics fast, like for Ebay auctions (and yes, showing off your newest laser!) but most digital cameras, even with Photshop enhancement, can't come close to the nuances that film can capture. I also agree that B&W is unique and it's tough to replicate the effect with digital.

I too developed both color and B&W film while in college (that's my major - photography) and printed both. In addition I took a couple of courses in film, and while it's hard to believe, back in 1993/94 we were still taught using hand-cranked 16mm film cameras! Talk about old school....but back then, with all these media, you had to get it right the first time - there was no Photoshop!
 
If you want a really cool camera try and find some old twin lens reflex cameras. They take 120 film that is still available today and 3 times the size of 35mm, and everything that comes out of those cameras have their own unique look, holga's also, which can be bought for around $30. They are great art cameras.
 
I have a 4.0 Megapixel Olympus Stylus that is water-resistant,
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but I burned part of the CCD on it with a laser, so I am getting a new camera;
The Olympus Stylus Tough-8000:
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12 Megapixels, waterproof to 33ft, crush-proof to 220lbs, and laser-proof to 5,280 feet. :gun:
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A nice point-and-shoot for about $350.
For sure my next camera. :D
 
I use a Canon Powershot SX110 IS :D Imagine a DSLR being squashed as much as possible into a compact camera. It has to be the best camera I have owned, 10x Optical Zoom and 40x Digital zoom, the handy thing is I can set the image size to the 2nd lowest (1600x1200) and I can use the full 10x Optical Zoom and another 30x Digital Zoom on top of the 10x (making 40x) without any picture quality loss.

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The picture doesn't do the lens any justice... that lens extends almost double the width of the camera itself.
 
i have the olympus 1050 SW. it's my primary
Stylus 1050 SW

my secondary is a 35mm nikon f-100 with a 28-200mm lens with zoomable flash.
it is actually my little sisters but she doesn't use it. and since i've been on LPF i have taken an interest in taking quality pictures. I am still learning it though.
 
imjustintime said:
If you want a really cool camera try and find some old twin lens reflex cameras. They take 120 film that is still available today and 3 times the size of 35mm, and everything that comes out of those cameras have their own unique look, holga's also, which can be bought for around $30. They are great art cameras.
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LOL, i still have one of them, but are years that i don't use it, nor think about it ..... it's a Zenit, and i was using it when i was 11 or 12 (and i'm 47, now, LOL)
 
Canon PowerShot SD790 IS. It's been giving me some weird problems, probably since it was in the car that I rolled, and got dented and rattled around; one of the screws fell out, so I think things are a bit loose. I have to reseat the battery every time to power it on, and the switch between shoot and review modes doesn't work. :rolleyes:

35mm Canon EOS Rebel Ti :cool:
 
digital:
Canon PowerShot A590... love that little cam. Tough little bugger.

film:
Minolta XG-M with vast collection of lenses, filters & accessories
Minolta Maxxum 450si
Both of which are wonderful cameras, but rendered unpractical and obsolete by the camera above... :(

Robert
 
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