p.2 #4 · the "post your early digital images" thread
bdickers wrote: These images demonstrate that it's not the equipment that makes or breaks a photograph.
telyt wrote: I beg to differ. Poor ergonomic design prevents me from making some photos, flare, fugly bokeh or poor color quality will make the difference between a photo I'll keep and one I delete.
The best camera doesn't save a poor photographer, but a good photographer will soon find his limits with poor gear. It takes skill and good equipment to achieve optimum results.
bdickers wrote: Discovering limits whether they are equipment or skill/creativity based, and working within those limitations to produce quality images is, to my mind, what the journey of photography is all about. Optimum results, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder or, on a professional level, the eye of the client. I read recently about a marketing campaign that is being shot entirely with an iPhone.
p.2 #5 · the "post your early digital images" thread
Working within the limitations of the equipment is all well and good (and sometimes even fun), but why should we be limited by our equipment? I can't do macro or bird photography with a Holga. Sometimes an image IS improved by the higher resolution, better bokeh and better contrast afforded by better equipment. Sometimes a Holga just will not allow you to realize what you have pre-visualized. Of course, by exploiting the weaknesses of a Holga you can do things that might not be possible on other cameras. I'm with telyt on this one.
You say, "These images demonstrate that it's not the equipment that makes or breaks a photograph." However, one can easily find other images where the equipment does indeed make or break the image.
p.2 #7 · the "post your early digital images" thread
My First Camera: Canon A70. Bought it because it featured a lot of manual functions like aperture, shutter speed, iso, manual focus and flash output. I "invented" the dragging the shutter principles and as far as possible DoF.
Some early samples
My first DSLR-experience was with my dad's 350D.
Nov 14, 2009 at 01:50 PM
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p.2 #8 · the "post your early digital images" thread
p.2 #11 · the "post your early digital images" thread
2001 and it was a Pentax EI2000 (or HP C912).
It was a great little cam in the beginning (was actually like a little DSLR with optical TTL VF) but it had focus issues where if it saw two things contrasty enough for focusing, it was programmed to use the farthest one.
I could never understand the logic behind this and had a bit of a battle with Pentax/HP as it made the cam very difficult to use, as you had to really think about tricking the AF into using the desired focus subject all the time.
While trying to sort the issue out (12 months in) the sensor just died and went very VERY warm. Pentax/HP seized this as an opportunity to make me "go away" and offered me a full refund. I was happy to vanish and reappear with a Canon G2, because in that 12 months cameras had become better and cheaper, so it was very inexpensive upgrade.
p.2 #14 · the "post your early digital images" thread
My first digital camera was a HP Photosmart 618 in 2001 or so (2 megapixel I believe). This was before I got at all serious about photography, but I managed a few decent shots. In a lot of cases the camera itself was definitely a limiting factor.
p.2 #15 · the "post your early digital images" thread
My first digital camera was a Canon A75 3.1MP. A surprisingly good camera up to 8x10 if I did my job right as far as settings, composition and exposure.
The closeup images are with an old Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f1.4 reverse mounted, what a fun combo to play around with. I used to have all kinds of brackets for diffusers and tiny mono pods and stands attached to that little camera for shooting macro images. I got lots of strange looks from people walking down the street with that contraption
p.2 #19 · the "post your early digital images" thread
Thanks! That shot was taken while I was going to school at Cal Poly in California and it was a senior project of some architecture students several years back. There are lots of great sculptures and structures in that area from past projects.
p.2 #20 · the "post your early digital images" thread
I've got to find my old Casio QV-10 images! But what I have online is:
Canon G1, circa 1999-2002. (3.1 megapixels)
I remember that this particular trip to San Francisco inspired me to take photography into a different direction and consider doing it for a living.
Then it was a quick transition to the 30D, 60D, and then the 10D. I still have a few 10D shots up on my site. Miss that camera. Something happened and I started making dough with 10D images and I ponied up for a 1Ds around the age of 24. After that it was the 1Ds Mark II, Mark II, and then the 5D Mark II as well.
Strangely I remember images that made me fall in love with lenses more than the cameras over the years, but an early one that I remember saying "Whoa!" to was the 10D + Sigma 15mm fisheye combo:
That 10D was a workhorse for me though. Primarily with the 28 f/1.8, 50 f/1.4, and 100 f/2 lenses.
After that and when I moved up to the pro series bodies I had to get the damn good glass and that's the vampire that drained the wallet over the years.
