Well, some may know that I started photography at the age of about 10-11 years, some 40 years ago.
By that time, evidently evidently, everything was on film!
Later, when I earned my own money, I tested a lot of films just to get stuck with my favorite film, the Kodakchrome 64 for color slides. I just loved the colors when watching the slides on the big screen at home!
It was not cheap, but what a film!
With my Canon FTb QL, I could get 39 slides out of a 36 cartridge!
But when you have only 3 unexposed films left in your bag and you have still a couple of days left in your holidays, you don't do much experimentation, you make every shot count! And even when I was at home, near my trusted photo retailer, experiments have been rare. You had to mark in a (real) notepad aperture, exposure time, light situation, send the film for development, wait a week or so, cut the slides, frame them and watch them on the big screen to finally see the results.
So when I could buy a Canon Ion back in 1989 or so, I was quite fascinated by it. It was not a digital camera, but a "still video camera" which saved the stills on a mini diskette!
The quality of the images was, well a video still, but you could watch them on a TV set or, in my case on a Commodore Amiga 2000 with a digitizer card. The resolution was something like 480 x 320 pixels! In short, it was more of a toy than a tool.
But now, today, with 3 SD-cards in the bag you can shoot thousands of images, experiment and see the result instantly on the screen, change the settings, re-shoot and pinpoint your idea. Since I got my 600D in May, I have shot about 5000 pics! 4500 for the dustbin, well not really, each of the deleted pictures tought me something. Either about the way the camera works, either how to find ways to bring my "vision" of the scene on the screen.
People say, there have never been taken more photos than today. On the other hand, I don't think that the amount of good photos has grown in the same way.
For my part, I do take more shoots than ever before, because I can, because it does not cost me more and because I do try more things.
This is a good time to learn, to train your eye and perception and to get out of your comfort zone!
By that time, evidently evidently, everything was on film!
Later, when I earned my own money, I tested a lot of films just to get stuck with my favorite film, the Kodakchrome 64 for color slides. I just loved the colors when watching the slides on the big screen at home!
It was not cheap, but what a film!
With my Canon FTb QL, I could get 39 slides out of a 36 cartridge!
But when you have only 3 unexposed films left in your bag and you have still a couple of days left in your holidays, you don't do much experimentation, you make every shot count! And even when I was at home, near my trusted photo retailer, experiments have been rare. You had to mark in a (real) notepad aperture, exposure time, light situation, send the film for development, wait a week or so, cut the slides, frame them and watch them on the big screen to finally see the results.
So when I could buy a Canon Ion back in 1989 or so, I was quite fascinated by it. It was not a digital camera, but a "still video camera" which saved the stills on a mini diskette!
The quality of the images was, well a video still, but you could watch them on a TV set or, in my case on a Commodore Amiga 2000 with a digitizer card. The resolution was something like 480 x 320 pixels! In short, it was more of a toy than a tool.
But now, today, with 3 SD-cards in the bag you can shoot thousands of images, experiment and see the result instantly on the screen, change the settings, re-shoot and pinpoint your idea. Since I got my 600D in May, I have shot about 5000 pics! 4500 for the dustbin, well not really, each of the deleted pictures tought me something. Either about the way the camera works, either how to find ways to bring my "vision" of the scene on the screen.
People say, there have never been taken more photos than today. On the other hand, I don't think that the amount of good photos has grown in the same way.
For my part, I do take more shoots than ever before, because I can, because it does not cost me more and because I do try more things.
This is a good time to learn, to train your eye and perception and to get out of your comfort zone!
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