Here’s a close up of the blooming Bottlebrush in the back
yard shot with the Pentax K-10 at f4.5, 1/125 and ISO 200, through a 70-300
zoom lens and shown here with no post processing at all.
It’s been a while since I “played” with a DSLR. For about a
year now, I have been shooting film and occasionally using the Nikon P-300
digital compact I bought last Fall (see my 10/31/12 post, “The Perfect Digital
Camera – Part-2) so I decided it was time to revisit the subject and re-explore
why I don’t like digital cameras again.
Some of you may be wondering why I keep coming back to this
subject. Why not just shoot film and forget about digital? Others may be
wondering why I shoot film at all. Why not just give up and give in to the
inevitable march of technology? Well, it’s complicated.
First of all I am no technophobe. I started using and
programming computers in 1969. I bought my first personal computer in 1985. I
have a smart phone and an e-reader. I have always been fascinated by the latest
gadgets, and never shied away from change. Change however, to be good should
improve and simplify things, not make them more complicated or harder to use. I
embrace technology whenever it makes my life better. With that said, in the
next few posts I will take a look at the difference between my 35mm SLR and my
DSLR and revisit the whole issue after nearly a year of film & DSLR
abstinence. Stay tuned.
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