i definitely am pining for a decent digital SLR. the fine and fragile detail that 10 megapixels or so can capture really excites me. smoke, mist, transparency and near-transparency, the finest texture or variation of light. i sort of feel like not bothering with photography until i can get one. maybe next big job. i was looking at the nikon d50 and the pentax K10(D?) as well.
for now i have my Canon SD1000, which claims 7.1 megapixels, but i just don’t see it. in fact, i think the nikon coolpix i had grabbed nicer detail or subtleties of light, even tho undoubtedly cheaper and older. that one is broken. it lasted a little while, and was given to me when someone moved up in camera quality so it was doubly sweet, as it was my first digital camera (still camera). i took the coca cola and the nezua skywalker series with that jobbie, along with other images. but then i forgot to take the battery out when stowing it (something i don’t normally do, but i was traveling and my bag got bumped around a lot) and it got jiggled on inside a pocket in my bag, and the lens tried to emerge, but had no room, and so the motor burnt out. i want to sell the memory card to it (2G) but as of now, i’m a little uncomfortable doing so without being able to insure it is empty of images.
i’m not sure why the canon SD1000—still a point and shoot, but i’d guess at least as good/expensive a camera than the nikon i had—grabs such grain/pixelization, even when the ISO is low. i should try setting the pictures to a smaller size. but still, the quality is set on “fine,” the best, so i don’t get it. oh well. at least you are not developing film! so the cost is low compared to my old skool SLR, the Pentax K1000. had that thing since my first college! i got it second hand shortly after my fuji was stolen.
i love film grain. still do. dont care so much for pixelization, not the same.
so i had one of those film rolls sitting around for years on the shelf, and i took it down to the rite aid. the image quality deteriorated a bit from sitting around the last couple years and moving from house to house, and i cropped usually and messed with color on these because there are light leaks along the sprockets, which happens to film kept out of the canister and moved around a lot, oh well. i just took the film finally to be developed, and it was one of those surprise packages.
some of the shots were snapped on my old commuting route, when i lived in brooklyn and took three trains in each direction, each day, to get to work. others are more recent. here’s a few.
“Luna, Natural Light, 2007.” 35 mm film, 28mm lens, Pentax SLR, Process AP70/C41, edited in Photoshop to desaturate and add URL
“Harlem Red and Green, 2005.” 35 mm film, 50mm lens, Pentax SLR, Process AP70/C41, edited in Photoshop to crop, tint, oversaturate and add URL
“On the Ball” 35 mm film, 28mm lens, Pentax SLR, Process AP70/C41, edited in Photoshop to add URL
“East River at Sunset” 35 mm film, 50mm lens, Pentax SLR, Process AP70/C41, edited in Photoshop to crop and add URL
oh my god, and who really uses the word “pining” anymore? wow. i dated myself even further back than i have a right to. where did i even pick that one up?
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Great pix, especially the one of Lunita, unreserved love and delight. I can’t wait for the next decade to pass when she says, “Daddy, you’re so full of shit!” and you will be proud! Then you can relax.
let’s give her just a couple of years to imagine i have something to teach worth paying attention to before she realizes that truth!
thanks man.
i love all those. there are many, many digital cameras out there that claim 7 or 8 or 10 megapixels and yield very low-quality shots. the megapixel size is somewhat of a myth used in advertising to pull the consumer in. picture sharpness and detail have a lot more to do with the actual quality and variations in tone of the lens, and the manufacturer.
thanks. you are so right. megapixels is not all, tho it does matter. as they say “it is the lens that takes the picture” and the body that captures it. so if i camera has a big brain (chip/megapixels) but a lousy system integrating of displaying the data (capture) as well as a puny lens (this camera does, its a point n shoot, about the size of a tiger milk bar or somethin) its gonna look crummy. which is your point. and anyway, before you know it, 20 megapixels will be the standard and the bodies will be replaced.
so of course yes, it makes more sense to consider the lens line. this is where i’ve been deliberating. its tuff. the pentax has a big selection cuz of the backward compatibility…(as well as three of my own lenses now! tho i dont think they are anything special). i trust nikon to the max because of their longevity and history of quality. but canon’s line is legendary in the digital world.
we spoke of the XT. i like what i’ve seen from it. i’ve been looking at the XTi, cuz it improves on the XT in ways that begin to satisfy me. i wasn’t looking at the XT because of a few features that the nikon D80 and the pentax K10 had over it. but the XTi (tho almost twice as much?) meets that bar. so that’s what i’m looking at now.
of course i’m just looking.
no way to afford that right away. but its good to take time and narrow it down. thats what i love about the internet, reviews, google…its made shopping for something so much more satisfying and effective.
i know the feeling about wanting a digital slr.
i haven’t decided if i’m just gonna save for that or purchase a new digital camera first.
mine has begun sucking the life out of batteries faster than i can charge them.