Digital cameras versus the old days

I used a Polaroid Spectra camera with a timer. Had my own lights, but they still weren't that good. The pictures I currently have posted are from a Kodak CX7430 digital, also a self timer. I don't like running back and forth and you only have 10 seconds to get in position. I waste way too many shots! With the camera's flash, there are too many dust halos. I have to photoshop those out if the picture is otherwise good!

Some of my last photos (the black & white rocker chick) were done with a Canon T70 35mm camera. I also developed the film and made prints at my college class. It's an interesting process, I kinda like it.

I just got a Nikon D40 with an infrared remote. Can't wait to try it out. I think this will be a big improvement.

-Tracy

Started with film and still love it more than digital I must admit that I use my Nikon D40 more than my FM2.

I am a fossil, I still use film, especially black and white. I feel guilty whenever I use a digital camera, but more and more I use digital cameras for color work and film cameras only for black and white.

I missed the film age (thank the gods). I have only ever taken a few digital photos of myself I am always afraid they won't completely delete knowing enough about how data works. But I am always grateful that some kid at the local photo shop never has the chance to look at and possibly copy my photos.

I have alot of pictures that I have taken over the years with digital,, I had the scare of a lifetime when I was showing a friend something on my computer,, Well suddenly I remembered the file I was about to open also had pictures I had taken of myself when dressed in various things,, So what I did was go to Walmart and got a 1 gig USB memory stick or Flash Drive they are called,, then you can have a lock box with personal documents and stuff locked and hidden and also your very own personal pic collection, If your not familiar with them,, they are easy and simple to drag and drop your pics to them and you can send your fav pic to who ever and not worry about a copy lost in the computer somewhere.. :2c: thats my suggestion

To Group::love:

In my younger years, I developed and printed most of my black and white photographs. When Kodachrome came out, I made lots of slides. However, until the Polariad cameras came out, Imma was never made any photograph of me dressed. We still have two of them here at the house! When Imma got the first digital camera, the SLR went on the shelf. With on line service from Costco, Imma sends "regular" photos through cyberspace and picks up prints the next or same day.:thumbsup:

Imma has three digital cameras. But the Cannon and smaller Panasonic are the ones that Imma uses most for photographs. All of the photographs in my Flickr album were made with these two cameras. The Cannon has an infrared remote clicker that enables Imma to get ready and then snap the picture. Great for those backside photographs.:battingeyelashes:

If you like flashing stockings, girdle glimpses, and CFMHH shoes, take a look at my album::devil:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23704386@N02/

LOL:heehee:

Imma:brolleyes:

Oh golly, photography!

I haunted the darkroom at college doing nothing but B+W with a really good slr. But never printed a pic with a face! The lab was always so crowded. Lots of arty stuff with legs and torsos and got good grades for some of them! LOL!

Then went to Ektachrome for color slides, cause you could develop it without a darkroom. Made lots of prints from the slides by making internegatives from the ektachrome positives.

But digital, oh my! Have worked my way up through 1.5 to 4 to 6 now10.2 megapixels with my new Nikon D40X, with infrared controller. No rushing back and forth for the on camera timer. Just click 'em off one after another with the little clicker hidden in your palm. 100 shots in a couple of minutes...

Only problem is I had to get an external hard drive to store 'em all! 10.2 Megapixel shot makes a file that's between 3.5 and 5 Megabytes depending on the amount of color in it..

I love my Nikon! D40 is only about 6 megapixel, but the D40X is 10.2, as good as the ones that cost 3 times as much, just without a lot of those fancy menu items that you never use anyway. Who needs a cluttered up camera menu when you've got Photoshop to do all the messing about?

At one point, I wanted to start doing artistic photocgraphy, and maybe even some simple processing, so i boughta n expensive, for me, 35 mm Single Lens Reflex camera, (Minolta), and a couple of lenses, including a big zoom, things I had always wanted. But either both lenses or the camera body was out of whack, and the camera shop could not or would not fix it, (a combination), or give me my money back. So my film photography period ended, not with a bang but petered out with a whimper. I shelved the whole idea, going back to my simple 110 cameras, for snaps, and waited for the digital cameras, then rumoured, to come.
The digital cameras, to my amazement were quite a bit cheaper if you chose to stay economical. I still drive by that photshop and stick out my tongue.

Praise be for the Digital Camera , no more wasted film , no more furtive visits to have it developed and then finding out they are terrible , out of focus or you are completly out of the picture. I in the end processed my own films , but that only solved one of the problems , no give me my Canon Digital anytime ladies.