Well, thanks to my new job, I have a new digital camera. It has been worth the wait getting it although, I wasn’t expecting to get the use of one. Anyway, it’s been a learning process trying to adjust things to manual and semi-manual. One reason so many love their digital cameras (and 35mm) is for the auto functions. I personally don’t like the auto settings for what I do with photography.
I learned photography in high school using a 4×5 in view camera. I would have to say, even by the standards of my high school days that was a very lucky school. Today, only a professional photography would have a 4×5, if they have one for student use at all. From 4×5 I went to 35mm. I didn’t like it. Too small. I went to 2¼x2¼ in (6×6 cm), otherwise known as a twin-lens reflex. I still have one.
By the time I got seriously thinking about a college art education I discovered a slightly larger negative format which I use to this day, 6×7 cm. This negative is about 3 times the size of a 35mm neg which allows for greater detail (a positive) but, the camera is much heavier (a perceived negative). Remember, I learned on a 4×5 which MUST be set on a tripod. You expose one sheet of film at a time. You work slow and methodically. I like deliberation when I work.
The digital camera a Nikon 5700 is small and light. It will take some getting used to, although I still use 35mm cameras. Anyway, tomorrow I’m hoping to get out and actually take some pictures, d/l to my computer and share, if I can get everything working properly. I’m sure my exposures will be messed up until I figure out what I’m doing. Wish me luck. This will be my camera for the canoe trip.