saaketham wrote:
Thank you. Nostalgia about good old film days. 😑
No instant gratification ... took real skills and patience back then and true talent really showed.
bs kite wrote: saaketham wrote:
Do you have any photos from your early attempts? 🤔🤔🤔
bs kite wrote: saaketham wrote:
All these AF features make me wonder how photographers got such incredible photos in the past without it. Birds were still flying back then.
I started in "74. Saw 7 moose in a flowage in northern Maine and wished I had a camera. That started it. I started with a Minolta SRT 101 and a 400mm Bushnell lens. I shot 5254 film for a while. I think it was the same film they used for motion pictures in California. I thought I knew what I was doing. Truth is that I did not have a clue.
I tried many times to capture a sharp BIF with the manual focus then. No way. Maybe someone else got the rare sharp image but I concluded that it was virtually impossible. I remember thinking "maybe one day they will have cameras that will focus on flying birds".
I never dreamed that I would live to see this incredible technology! Now, I take it for granted and I am not sure I like that. Oh, I am grateful to be able to capture sharp birds in flight. But where does it end.
The speed at which it is going, the camera will do everything. No? It's beginning to seem like a possibility to me.
Now that is a good and fair question. If you mean birds in flight I am certain I do not. I should have saved the out-of-focus BIF’s. You only got one shot because there was no motor and the film was advanced with the thumb on the lever. Seems like yesterday.
I do have one image of a Dandilion seed head that placed in a Nat Wiildlife Federation contest. Took it in 1974. It’s not much to look at by today’s standards..
If you don’t mind, I think I will attach it right here just for kicks.
I am sorry if I stole your thread. Actually I am embarrassed. Anyway, its your fault because you asked me if I had any images from back then. I think it must be the earliest picture I took that still exists
I know it’s not much and that you meant BIF.
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Dandelion (Taraxacum) seed head. This is one of my earliest nature images. I believe I shot it in 1974. It was taken right at sunset and right into the setting sun. It was recorded on Kodachrome 64 with my first camera, a Minolta SRT 101 with a 135mm f2.8 Rokkor lens and close-up, screw-in accessory lenses that attach to the front of the lens.
This image placed in the National Wildlife Federation's yearly photo contest and subsequently toured the United States in a year-long photo exhibition sponsored by the Leigh, Yawkey Woodson Art Museum of Wausau, Wisconsin.
. Thank you
Oct 22, 2021 at 07:45 AM
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