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cameras, cameras everywhere
Dec. 8th, 2006 05:11 pmMy friend Kelly, who is just way too nice a guy, is letting me borrow his DSLR (Canon Digital Rebel XT, if you care) for the weekend so we can see whether we want to buy one. Random camera thoughts:
1) MAN, the DSLR is heavy. He gave us the big ol' zoom lens, but still. There's no way I'm lugging this thing around on a hike that's longer than an hour. Getting a prosumer manual-mode non-DSLR that's less than a pound is starting to look better.
2) I'm looking forward to playing with RAW! Never had a RAW-capable camera before.
3) I didn't think no shutter lag would make such a difference... OOH.
4) It's a very good thing that D made me learn his manual film SLR backwards and forwards before he let me touch his *autofocus* film SLR, much less a DSLR. Otherwise I'd be all squee! about the bells and whistles and not even have any clue what it could Actually Do.
5) That being said, now that I know how to mess with aperture and manually focus and crap, it just irks me when I'm using my current camera, a little point-and-shoot that thinks it's all cool because you can change the ISO, and I'm all, "I really want small depth of field!... ergh." I think I was happier when I didn't know anything about photography.
6) On the other hand, I was able to use Photoshop to fix a pic for my mom, which was kind of cool. Guess those photoshop books were good for *something*.
Possibly more after I mess around with it over the weekend. I suspect though that we're doomed to get a DSLR in the next year or so...
1) MAN, the DSLR is heavy. He gave us the big ol' zoom lens, but still. There's no way I'm lugging this thing around on a hike that's longer than an hour. Getting a prosumer manual-mode non-DSLR that's less than a pound is starting to look better.
2) I'm looking forward to playing with RAW! Never had a RAW-capable camera before.
3) I didn't think no shutter lag would make such a difference... OOH.
4) It's a very good thing that D made me learn his manual film SLR backwards and forwards before he let me touch his *autofocus* film SLR, much less a DSLR. Otherwise I'd be all squee! about the bells and whistles and not even have any clue what it could Actually Do.
5) That being said, now that I know how to mess with aperture and manually focus and crap, it just irks me when I'm using my current camera, a little point-and-shoot that thinks it's all cool because you can change the ISO, and I'm all, "I really want small depth of field!... ergh." I think I was happier when I didn't know anything about photography.
6) On the other hand, I was able to use Photoshop to fix a pic for my mom, which was kind of cool. Guess those photoshop books were good for *something*.
Possibly more after I mess around with it over the weekend. I suspect though that we're doomed to get a DSLR in the next year or so...
