Digital
January 5th 2009 07:42
I didn't use to have much time for digital cameras, being the old-fashioned person I am - sometimes!
We had an excellent still camera that belonged originally to my wife. When she decided to go digital, I took it over, and shot a number of decent photos on it, including one of a strange long-tailed insect that appeared outside our front door one day. Apparently this creature was some kind of wasp, but I'd never seen anything like it before.
The only way I could show you that photo is by going through the slightly tedious process of scanning it into my computer and then downloading it to this post. But I'm too lazy tonight, and too sore to do anything too energetic.
I also shot a number of photos of various murals around Dunedin, where I live. This was a few years back, and already some of these murals have vanished. These I did scan into the computer, and then uploaded to flickr.com. You can see some of them here.
But I've taken more photos of murals recently - on my wife's former digital camera (!) She's not using it at present because it's too slow when she wants to take something fast. However, we took it with us to the UK last year, and shot hundreds of photos (famous buildings don't tend to move very much).
Because we had our laptop with us, we could upload them as went, wipe the photos off the camera, and start again. The great advantage of the digital.
Having discovered the value of a digital, it's unlikely I'll go back to the old still camera. I'm sure if I was a purist, I'd stick with the latter, but I'm not. I might be slow to catch up, but catch up I do, and here's a digital photo I took, to prove it!
This was taken early one morning as I walked to work. It shows St Matthew's Church spire enshrouded by scaffolding, and the green netting they use to ensure safety for the workers - and pedestrians. What I liked about it was the way the sun gave a rather magical silhouette.
And the only reason I got this shot (and several similar ones) is that I had this little digital camera stuck in my backpack. It's small enough to cart around and have handy for just such occasions. Unfortunately, the old still camera was never anywhere near as portable.
We had an excellent still camera that belonged originally to my wife. When she decided to go digital, I took it over, and shot a number of decent photos on it, including one of a strange long-tailed insect that appeared outside our front door one day. Apparently this creature was some kind of wasp, but I'd never seen anything like it before.
The only way I could show you that photo is by going through the slightly tedious process of scanning it into my computer and then downloading it to this post. But I'm too lazy tonight, and too sore to do anything too energetic.
I also shot a number of photos of various murals around Dunedin, where I live. This was a few years back, and already some of these murals have vanished. These I did scan into the computer, and then uploaded to flickr.com. You can see some of them here.
But I've taken more photos of murals recently - on my wife's former digital camera (!) She's not using it at present because it's too slow when she wants to take something fast. However, we took it with us to the UK last year, and shot hundreds of photos (famous buildings don't tend to move very much).
Because we had our laptop with us, we could upload them as went, wipe the photos off the camera, and start again. The great advantage of the digital.
Having discovered the value of a digital, it's unlikely I'll go back to the old still camera. I'm sure if I was a purist, I'd stick with the latter, but I'm not. I might be slow to catch up, but catch up I do, and here's a digital photo I took, to prove it!
This was taken early one morning as I walked to work. It shows St Matthew's Church spire enshrouded by scaffolding, and the green netting they use to ensure safety for the workers - and pedestrians. What I liked about it was the way the sun gave a rather magical silhouette.
And the only reason I got this shot (and several similar ones) is that I had this little digital camera stuck in my backpack. It's small enough to cart around and have handy for just such occasions. Unfortunately, the old still camera was never anywhere near as portable.
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