Besides looking at pictures, reading about the exciting world of photography I started taking pictures myself.
Like everyone else I started taking snapshots with common film cameras, most were the cheap focus-free type. In the last few years however I got more and more excited about real cameras (mostly SLR's), and I managed to gather a few:
| Digital Cams | Film SLR's |
| HP Photosmart 350 | Revue Flex AC2 |
| HP Photosmart 850 | Praktica B100 |
| Canon EOS 350D | Minolta X-300 |
| Canon EOS 60D |
16 July 2011, 16:07 UTCBrela - Panoramas
Some panoramas from the trip to Brela:
2 July 2011, 19:38 UTCBrela/Croatia - 2011
This year's summer trip was to croatia. I looked around for some nice beaches, and ended up deciding on the Makarska riviera. I looked around for a house to rent and we ended up in Brela..
27 May 2011, 13:15 UTCTenerife - Sea & seaside
Some pictures around and on the ocean..
27 May 2011, 12:36 UTCTenerife - Santa Cruz
The capital of Tenerife is Santa Cruz (the holy cross). We were there on the 3rd of May, which is exactly the celebration of the city (also the celebration of Vera Cruz, the True Cross)..
26 May 2011, 20:13 UTCTenerife - Teide
Something one can't miss while on Tenerife is a visit to the Teide.
It's the highest point in the Atlantic Ocean and the highest mountain in Spain (3718m or 12198ft)...
23 May 2011, 10:10 UTCTenerife - Panoramas
23 May 2011, 9:32 UTCTenerife - Puerto de la Cruz
11 April 2011, 13:48 UTCAlex 2nd Bday
9 April 2011, 19:33 UTCitaly trip - day 2 - Torino & Superga
9 April 2011, 18:58 UTCitaly trip - day 1 - Sacra di San Michele
25 March 2011, 16:02 UTCThe lake Constance (Bodensee)
9 February 2011, 19:52 UTCMeike BG-E9 for my 60D
5 February 2011, 19:27 UTCSunny day
30 January 2011, 0:47 UTCrandom shots with my new 60D
15 November 2010, 19:19 UTCChips .. & friends
Digital Cams
Lately I've been too busy to have time for film shooting (all the time involved to get films, get them developed, fotos, etc), so I turned to the digital side ;).
Look below for my film cameras.
HP Photosmart 350
That's the first digital camera I used a while back. It's a 2.1 MPixel cam, nothing fancy, was pretty good at its time. It still works, yet I don't use it any more.
HP Photosmart 850
The PhotoSmart 850 was the first serious digital cam I had. It works very nicely and shoots some awsome pictures with the default settings. It even allows you to enter more creative shooting modes (like aperture select or shutter priority). The integrated flash is pretty strong, and it works OK most of the times.
I really recommend this camera to anyone. It's pretty cheap these days on ebay (around 100-120 EUR), and you get some good optics and 4 MPixels for that. Did I mention the lens is only 2.8-3.1? And it's 8x optical (7.6-61mm), a beauty.
Canon EOS 350D
Yes I know it costs a lot of money, but I got myself one of these, and I must say I don't regret one bit. I've read reviews over reviews all over the net, but when I got it and started shooting with it I still was impressed.
When you switch it on it feels just like a SLR, nothing happens ;) No lenses turned on, no chips initializing, nothing, it's ready to shoot.
I absolutely love that whatever I do with it (connect it to the PC, look at pictures, set up stuff), no matter where in a menu I am, when I click the shutter it takes the picture almost instantly. Did I mention I like it a lot? So much I'll keep lots of info in a blog here ;)
Canon EOS 60D
Recently a friend of mine started looking for a DSLR, and he was looking for the same class as my old 350D. Long story short, I ended up selling him my camera, and getting a fresh new upgrade. I think the reviews out there on the 60D don't do it justice, it's really great. The 350D was fun to use, but the 60D is so much more. After a couple days of using it lightly, I'm still getting used to the upgraded controls, and still a bit overwhelmed by all the options available (reminds me when I got the 350D.. 5 years ago)..
Film SLR's
Revue Flex AC2
The first SLR I got is a Revue Flex AC2. It's a japanese SLR made sometimes back in the 80's. It might be a bit hard to use for newbies (I know I had a hard time figuring out what to do), because it's mostly manual. Aperture is manual, focus is, and even exposure can be set manually (1/1000 to bulb).
I very much like the f=50mm, 1:1,4 lens I have on it, because it's very fast and allows shooting in very dark places. The camera also came with an external flash (hot-shoe type), but I didn't figure shooting with it back then, and nowadays I don't use it very much anymore.
Especially since I got the EOS 350D, which is my favorite nowadays ;)
Praktica B100
Next I came across this nice SLR at a local garage sale. Actually I only bought it for the 70-210 lens. The plan was to fit the lens on the Revue, unfortunately it didn't fit. It was then I learned that there are quite a few bajonett standards out there, and that most aren't compatible.
The camera is pretty nice, although there is something wrong with the AE metering. Because it has no manual exposure control it's basicly busted. Maybe one day I'll get it repaired, although after I've seen todays prices on SLR's on ebay I probably won't.
I have another lens on the Practica: a small f=50mm, 1:2.4 lens.
Minolta X-300
The last film SLR I bought so far is a very nice Minolta X-300. It's basicly not very different from the other two, works very nice too. I got a 1:3.5 35-70 lens on it, that works as a macro too. The macro is only up to 1:4, but it's ok for what I used it so far.
I only shot a couple of rolls with it, and now that I got a nice DSLR, it'll probably stay on the shelv mostly.