I was reviewing my flickr stream the other day, thinking about the cameras I’ve used, and how technology has advanced in an incredibly short space of time.
There is almost exactly three years between the top photo (taken on 3rd July 2005) and the bottom one (taken on July 4th 2008).
This picture was taken with one of my first ever digital cameras, a borrowed 3.2MP Kodak.
Hill Top Farm
Next I was given a camera of my own, a 5MP Canon (clearly camera preferences are like whether you can roll your tongue or not, handed down through the family line – my father has used Canons all his life)!
phalaenopsis
Having been bitten by the photography bug (and deeply, deeply relieved that I no longer have to pay for film processing), I then acquired another Canon, the 10MP G7, which could do all sorts of clever tricks such as selective colourisation in the camera itself (saving messing about on PhotoShop, hurrah)
yellow
And now, Canon’s latest SLR, the 12.2MP 450D, which I love to bits already.
flames
Now I just need to practice practice practice!
July 13, 2008 at 7:56 pm
That phalaenopsis piccy is fab: when DxO optics has finished with the 400 I fired off at Hampton court today I’ll see if there’s anything quite as good as that. Probably not, but we cam hope. I seem to be in the -Decent of Man- phase at the moment…
Welcome to the world of DSLRs, where your ‘I could really use that expensive lens’ thoughts keeps denting your bank balance, your megapixel count keeps going up, and so does the back pain from lugging it all over the show ‘just in case’.
Oh, and word to the wise: get another BIG hard disk. Soon!
July 13, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Hi Rosamundi
That last picture looks like it could belong on a blog about becoming a Lay member of the Order of Preachers
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July 17, 2008 at 10:55 pm
where your ‘I could really use that expensive lens’ thoughts keeps denting your bank balance,
Oh, don’t – I went into Camera World for a waterproof (more expensive than the waterproof I wear, but then, I won’t fwizzle and die when it rains), and a couple of lens cap leashes and somehow came out with a 50mm lens as well. How does that work?
July 21, 2008 at 11:00 am
>>How does that work?
Rather too easily, unfortunately.
Think “Ooh, Shiny!”, but with MUCH larger price tags
July 25, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Well, this is true. But on the other hand, it really does pay dividends to get the best lenses you can afford. It is also worth ensuring that you only buy the EF lenses rather than the EF-S ones. That way if you ever upgrade to a full frame camera you won’t need also to replace your lenses.