I like articles like this because I’m a sadist, probably. Or a masochist, maybe. Or maybe I just vacillate between these two subject positions so quickly that it looks like one of those spinning cartoon fights with the stars and exclamation points coming out of it, if you’d add a few hearts here and there.
Anyway, there’s an article here on the crappiest digital cameras evah!
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I am an awful amateur photographer.
In my early college years, I went with a 35mm and two lenses. I began to understand focal lengths and exposure levels. I never got much past taking a picture of a lava lamp in the dark or a branchy forest in the winter: no artistic value whatever.
Twenty (or is it thirty?) years later, I have resumed my attempts. Now I have a digital, actually my third digital, camera. The good news: I can snap to my heart’s content and it doesn’t cost me a nickel. I can make all the awful shots I want, constrained only by the time it takes me to review and delete them.
I have again ended up with a SLR of body size similar to my old 35mm SLR. I have again ended up with two lenses so that I am able to lack comprehension on which to use.
Now, I am better traveled, so the lava lamp does not attract my attention as a worthy subject.
The new bitch however, is that my Nikon D70 was supplanted in technological wonderfulness in less than six months of my purchasing it. I am now slow enough that I considered its replacement, the D70s, for so long that it was in turn supplanted, by the D200. I will, of course, take a while to get over the sticker shock, and it will in turn be supplanted by yet another . . .
The digital revolution has done to cameras what we are all familiar with in PCs. By the time you’ve accepted delivery, you are out-of-date.
John–
I try never to worry about that stuff, and always buy something adequate to my needs that someone’s dropped the price on to make way for whatever the new thing is, so that I’m not paying top dollar for some marginal increase in performance. Generally, too, I’m getting a lot of feedback about the product from people who’ve purchased and lived with it.
Well, that’s the way my intervening twenty (ok, thirty) years were. I just used it as a tool, a utility device; fine for my needs in travel, in marketing, in recording family events.
However, when I again began to get serious about the idea of photography as a means of expression; I kept thinking (keep thinking) it will get better with better equipment.
This phenomenon is very similar to my golf game; the better the equipment, the better (although marginal) my game.
On both cases, only slightly true, and that might be due to feeling better about the equipment, not better at the use of the equipment. [sigh]
John–
Not to seem presumptious, but I find that posing attractive women in almost any photograph makes it inherently more interesting. I’m not sure why that is, but it is so.
I wonder if that will work in my golf game?
It might improve your schwing.
My wife and I both have digital cameras. I don’t know where mine is. When I need to take pictures these days I use my phone—even my self-pic on my blog is a phone pic.
And when we got these phones I didn’t even particularly want a camera phone—it just happened to be the best hardware deal the store had.
Is the objective case of schwing schwantz?
geezer – I think the verb present tense is “schwanting”… I used that in a sentence once, but it didn’t make it much longer.
– My kiddo, godzillateen, is campaigning, his camp – my pain, for an upgrade for the
Christmasholiday season. We’ve looked at so many reviews, and customer comments, I’m getting retinal fatigue, but it seems we’ve settled on a borderline, not quite full SLR professional, but top-of-the-line point and shoot that features digitally corrected lenses, which is so far unique. the tipper will be it’s offered using Danscheapskatecommon sense approach in that it is being offered at a great price, and will do everything mini-me wants without breaking the bank to much. Yes I know 3 weeks after I buy it, a new advanced wazoo, zingbang better version will be introduced, maybe even as he’s unwarpping it on tree day. But I’m with Dan on that one. I know it’s going to happen, creeping featurism is the lifeblood of consumer geegaw marketing, and always has been, but I view these things strictly from a utilitarian viewpoint. I also like to wait till at least the first round of buggies have been weeded out, when making these sorts of purchase’s. Being able to beam proud with the latest in warp drive onion slicers lose’s its charm when it turns out it sucks the big one a week after you carve out a pound of flesh buying it.Best site I’ve found for reviews, if anyone is thinking of purchasing, is Steves Digicams, complete with actual photo’s and in depth techie reviews, as well as piles of owners comments.
– Just too illustrate what a packrat I am, I still own and use my beloved Minolta SRT-101, after gawd knows how many years. That puppy has been from Bar Harbor Maine to Dealy Plaza, and never let me down.
BBH: How many shots at the grassy knoll?
6 rolls ahem… and after being there, up close and personal, all the conspiracy theories went byebye…..