Digital Camera Reviews

Gone are the days when people had to get their pictures developed just to see what they looked like. Now pictures can be instantly taken and placed on a computer. First, there were digital cameras, then cellular phone cameras came along.

I’m very happy that March is just over a week away. The weather we’ve been getting has been keeping me from getting out shooting much. I have a bucket full of ideas that need to be explored. One of them is trying to rig up one of my old cameras to actually shoot some film again. I haven’t shot film in over a year. I also have decided to make a pinhole camera this year. That might be a good project to keep me busy until I can get outside shooting again more regularly.

It was a school project he selected on his own - a pinhole camera. Although I’ve read and seen pictures taken with pinhole cameras, I’ve never used one, and despite understanding the theory, I was pretty skeptical that he’d be able to get anything more than some fuzzy grey shapes.

I found a new camera on clearance to replace our FujiFilm digital camera. It’s a cheapy but $50 for a $140 digital video camera is a good deal for what we’ll do with it. It’s a DXG DVC-306. The specifications aren’t too bad. It’s not a professional camera by any means, but that’s not what I was looking for. I wanted simple, takes pictures & video, and inexpensive. Expect more pictures now that I can actually take them.

But, hey, a camera is a camera and I realized, recently, that, while a high-end camera helps with the quality of your photo, it doesn’t make you a photographer… I’ve always been able to get the best out of any camera I’ve owned - including the pinhole camera that I built back in 11th grade.

I have been a big fan of table top tripods that are not limited to the table and have loved my compact Ultrapod 2, however, the newly released Gorillapod series of tripods attaches to almost anything. Joby makes 3 different sizes of these cute, not cuddly, Gorillapods, I’ve used them all and I have to say that I finally found the perfect one for me! The Gorillapod SLR Zoom holds a whopping 6lbs of camera goodness almost anywhere you go. See the below picture of my Zero Image 6×12F pinhole camera attached to a tree in upstate New York. I highly recommend using a cable release or the self timer in your camera when it is attached to the Gorillapod as some immediate shake can happen from depressing the shutter.

ive taken all my photos on my little Cannon Powershot SD400. I never realized it but I’ve had the “auto-rotate” feature on for almost two years now. How could I not know you ask? Well, turns out Windows and every photo or graphics editing software I own couldn’t care less what the EXIF data in my photos says. It simply displays the jpg in its raw form: wide top:short side ratio. I recently aquired and am in the middle of a very serious attemp to finally move from Jasc Paint Shop Pro to PSCS2 as my primary graphics editing program. What I didn’t know is that PSCS2 does honor EXIF orientation settings and so it displays all my vertical images in the “correct” orientation. That is, the orientation any average joe would likely want to see his image in. Note, this is NOT the orientation the raw jpg data is in.

Since Christmas I have been experimenting with my new Canon Digital camera, I have uploded my first attempts to Devianart. I then began to study some works of other budding photographers from amateurs to professionals.

I love technology. In my house, we have four computers, an Xbox 360, an iPod, Fiber broadband and TV, multiple cell phones, three digital cameras, etc. Most of the people I know at least like technology and I wrongly assume that everyone is like me.

Cross-processed (slide film processed in print film chemistry) image taken with my trusty old 6×9 folding pinhole camera. f/295, about 6 seconds.