I'm really impressed by a lot of the photography displayed by the forum members - not only of guns, but almost everything else imaginable. I was wondering what camera or cameras are being used? I suspect there will be a lot of diversity. This isn't a question of what is best, but simply what do you use?
Over the years I've used a lot of cameras. I recall back in the 4th grade I had a "Donald Duck" camera that used roll film. In early high school, I had graduated to an Ansco 120 roll film box camera - as close to "point and shoot" as you could get. When I was a high school senior, my dad passed down his old Bolsey 35mm to me when he purchased a Leica IIIF, and I used that for many years, coupled with a cheap light meter. In my college years I used an Ansco 120 twin-lens reflex camera, which was a step up for serious photography. Then I purchased a Pentax K-1000 35mm SLR in the 1980s. That was a giant leap forward. It offered full manual control with "match the needle" light metering in the camera.
Then in 2006, I bought my first digital camera, a "point and shoot" Kodak. It got me used to the convenience of digital photography, but I longed for a good single lens reflex. I took the leap and got a Pentax K100D, a six-megapixel number that could use all the previous lenses I had acquired for the K-1000. In 2008 I stepped up to the 10-megapixel Pentax K200D, and started to learn to use Photoshop as a digital darkroom. In late 2010, I took the plunge to get Pentax's flagship model, the 16.2 megapixel K-5. It will use any of my previous Pentax lenses, so it has great versatility for me. Its ability to shoot pictures at very high ISOs allows me to take natural-light photos of exceptional quality - great for graduation ceremonies, etc. With it mounted on a tripod, I can take exceptionally sharp photos to illustrate my gun articles; many of these can be seen in Dillon's Blue Press magazine/catalog. In my opinion, there is nothing the K-5 can't do, and its dynamic range gives me the ability to bring up pictures in Photoshop that I never found possible before. Also, the large size of the pictures allows creative cropping in post-processing. When I don't find it convenient to lug around a full-size SLR, I use a Canon PowerShot A1000 IS 10-megapixel point and shoot, which I can just stick in a pocket - great for informal get-togethers with friends. I gave the old Pentax K100D to a granddaughter to learn photography, and I kept the 200D as a backup. At any rate, here's a shot of the Pentax K-5 which is my main camera now. What's yours?
John
Over the years I've used a lot of cameras. I recall back in the 4th grade I had a "Donald Duck" camera that used roll film. In early high school, I had graduated to an Ansco 120 roll film box camera - as close to "point and shoot" as you could get. When I was a high school senior, my dad passed down his old Bolsey 35mm to me when he purchased a Leica IIIF, and I used that for many years, coupled with a cheap light meter. In my college years I used an Ansco 120 twin-lens reflex camera, which was a step up for serious photography. Then I purchased a Pentax K-1000 35mm SLR in the 1980s. That was a giant leap forward. It offered full manual control with "match the needle" light metering in the camera.
Then in 2006, I bought my first digital camera, a "point and shoot" Kodak. It got me used to the convenience of digital photography, but I longed for a good single lens reflex. I took the leap and got a Pentax K100D, a six-megapixel number that could use all the previous lenses I had acquired for the K-1000. In 2008 I stepped up to the 10-megapixel Pentax K200D, and started to learn to use Photoshop as a digital darkroom. In late 2010, I took the plunge to get Pentax's flagship model, the 16.2 megapixel K-5. It will use any of my previous Pentax lenses, so it has great versatility for me. Its ability to shoot pictures at very high ISOs allows me to take natural-light photos of exceptional quality - great for graduation ceremonies, etc. With it mounted on a tripod, I can take exceptionally sharp photos to illustrate my gun articles; many of these can be seen in Dillon's Blue Press magazine/catalog. In my opinion, there is nothing the K-5 can't do, and its dynamic range gives me the ability to bring up pictures in Photoshop that I never found possible before. Also, the large size of the pictures allows creative cropping in post-processing. When I don't find it convenient to lug around a full-size SLR, I use a Canon PowerShot A1000 IS 10-megapixel point and shoot, which I can just stick in a pocket - great for informal get-togethers with friends. I gave the old Pentax K100D to a granddaughter to learn photography, and I kept the 200D as a backup. At any rate, here's a shot of the Pentax K-5 which is my main camera now. What's yours?
John
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