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When my dad died I inherited a load of photography gear which at the time I had no interest in as 99% of it was old film gear which at the time I thought was redundant (silly me) Most of it ended up in a cupboard and some under my bed ( I'd forgotten about this bit ) Fast forward five years or so and I found myself at Whitby Goth weekend dressed as a Victorian gentleman ( the gentleman bit was fake of course ) We spent the weekend talking to photographers and having to pose for pictures which ended up in galleries and news papers and even a little bit of video on the BBC. This sparked my interest and I thought I'll have a go with those old cameras ( if I could still get film) and if I take to it I'll get myself a DSLR, I did get a DSLR for a very very cheap price but I found this to be faulty and then later a Mirrorless but found I just did not like them and preferred film. Today I was moving everything from under the bed to do some DIY and came across a bit of digital history which I had completely forgotten existed, my dad brought a few digital cameras but never really used them as he also preferred film. I've been out this afternoon to give the camera a try, I have to say I'm quite impressed with the quality considering it's from 2003. I expected major dynamic range issues and just poor picture quality, There are some things which I find very useful an optical eye finder which zooms with the lens the fact it uses AA batteries. I turned the preview screen of and used it as a film camera taking a pic and walking away. They were all taken in auto mode with - 0.5 compensation apart from the flower pic which was taken in macro mode.
On the minus side it eats batteries which I seem to remember most of them did. Here are a few picture and way,
When my dad died I inherited a load of photography gear which at the time I had no interest in as 99% of it was old film gear which at the time I thought was redundant (silly me) Most of it ended up in a cupboard and some under my bed ( I'd forgotten about this bit ) Fast forward five years or so and I found myself at Whitby Goth weekend dressed as a Victorian gentleman ( the gentleman bit was fake of course ) We spent the weekend talking to photographers and having to pose for pictures which ended up in galleries and news papers and even a little bit of video on the BBC. This sparked my interest and I thought I'll have a go with those old cameras ( if I could still get film) and if I take to it I'll get myself a DSLR, I did get a DSLR for a very very cheap price but I found this to be faulty and then later a Mirrorless but found I just did not like them and preferred film. Today I was moving everything from under the bed to do some DIY and came across a bit of digital history which I had completely forgotten existed, my dad brought a few digital cameras but never really used them as he also preferred film. I've been out this afternoon to give the camera a try, I have to say I'm quite impressed with the quality considering it's from 2003. I expected major dynamic range issues and just poor picture quality, There are some things which I find very useful an optical eye finder which zooms with the lens the fact it uses AA batteries. I turned the preview screen of and used it as a film camera taking a pic and walking away. They were all taken in auto mode with - 0.5 compensation apart from the flower pic which was taken in macro mode.
On the minus side it eats batteries which I seem to remember most of them did. Here are a few picture and way,
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