Love of Photography
This has been in the works for some time now. Photography has been a hobby of mine off and on for about 5 years now. Most of that was spent with a Canon AE-1 and a standard 50mm lens. I made some outstanding pictures with that combination, however common it may be. It was a fairly easy camera to operate, but being film and being the first time I had really taken pictures without one of my parent's point and shoot cameras. It was certainly trial and error at first but I eventually had it figured out. After several years of using the 50mm, I decided I needed a telephoto lens. Not knowing that the zoom lenses of yesteryear tended to be much poorer than the prime lenses, I opted for the Canon 70-210mm f4. Despite the claims of poor performance, I got some decent results from it and it was really easy to hand hold. Grabbing the zoom and focus ring was liking grabbing a 16 oz pounder of Miller Lite. I have a wonderful portrait of me holding this lens attached to my AE-1:
Isn't that lovely? Well soon after this I decided that getting my Fujifilm 200 (you know the kind that's about $6 if you buy 1 roll and $9 if you buy the 4 pack) was far too expensive with developing and scans. Atlas, for Christmas of 2014, my parents gave me a Canon 20D. While I really like DSLR's for their amazing results, I soon became bored of taking hundreds of digital pictures and then downloading them onto my computer and wondering.....WHY THE HELL DID I TAKE SOO MANY PICTURES? Oh there's something, click click click, oh and something over there, click click. Sometimes I liked to go full paparazzi and blast a person with 5 frames per second because I forgot to turn burst mode off. Trust me, if you are taking pictures of your cousin's softball game with a dslr and telephoto lens, along with a burst rate only equaled by an MG-42 machine gun, people start to not like you, even you if don't like yourself if you have any sense of self awareness.
But not to fear! There's a much more interesting, engaging, and creative way to capture images and post them on Facebook, just waiting for the hundreds of likes you will receive for your brilliance. No but really, shooting film cameras really will take your photography to the next level. When you have to take the time to make sure you are getting everything just right, your photos will be better. Just like writing on this blog is making me realize how poor my grammar is. It can be frustrating at first, but oh so much more worth it in the end. There are even some technical advantages which I will post about later.
From now on I will be showing cameras that I use, purchased, sold, and anything in between. I enjoy picking cameras up at any opportunity. I love it. I crave it. Most importantly though is the appreciation to show for technology that is still relevant, even in today's world.
Isn't that lovely? Well soon after this I decided that getting my Fujifilm 200 (you know the kind that's about $6 if you buy 1 roll and $9 if you buy the 4 pack) was far too expensive with developing and scans. Atlas, for Christmas of 2014, my parents gave me a Canon 20D. While I really like DSLR's for their amazing results, I soon became bored of taking hundreds of digital pictures and then downloading them onto my computer and wondering.....WHY THE HELL DID I TAKE SOO MANY PICTURES? Oh there's something, click click click, oh and something over there, click click. Sometimes I liked to go full paparazzi and blast a person with 5 frames per second because I forgot to turn burst mode off. Trust me, if you are taking pictures of your cousin's softball game with a dslr and telephoto lens, along with a burst rate only equaled by an MG-42 machine gun, people start to not like you, even you if don't like yourself if you have any sense of self awareness.
But not to fear! There's a much more interesting, engaging, and creative way to capture images and post them on Facebook, just waiting for the hundreds of likes you will receive for your brilliance. No but really, shooting film cameras really will take your photography to the next level. When you have to take the time to make sure you are getting everything just right, your photos will be better. Just like writing on this blog is making me realize how poor my grammar is. It can be frustrating at first, but oh so much more worth it in the end. There are even some technical advantages which I will post about later.
From now on I will be showing cameras that I use, purchased, sold, and anything in between. I enjoy picking cameras up at any opportunity. I love it. I crave it. Most importantly though is the appreciation to show for technology that is still relevant, even in today's world.
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