Who else likes photography?

The program at my school is being cut :(  I think I was getting pretty good at it, too.

I used to do nature photography until my old camera broke. The new ones are worthless unless you dish out a huge sum of money.

btw don't tell anybody I didn't make a joke.

I love photography!

I just read the articles.

I agree with you on old cameras. My first decent one was a Pentax, everything manual, and heavy as hell. I upgraded over the years, but that was still the best :)

I don't agree about old cameras. No oldie can beat a seriously high resolution digital cam + photo editing art work. Technology always beats romanticism.

If you want to talk about editing, go on with your purple unicorns. I'm talking about authentic shots. They may not be impossibly pretty, but for me, the point with photography is that what you see is not impossible- it's actually there.

I will stick with my old-school film. A high-res digital cam can do a good job, but guess what resolution you get with film? Infinite.

In particular though, my love is for old cameras, which actually take a goddamned picture when you push the goddamned button, instead of assuming that you're a retard who can't get it into focus yourself. Most cameras now allow you to fiddle with it and get fairly good results, but still it is tricking the camera software into guessing what the hell you want, rather than just telling it what you want.

ok, I respect that, but digital cameras are pretty good for catching what's already there too, no? They also allow all kinds of adjustments that's not possible with non-digital cameras.

And I'm curious about your nature photography, why don't you post some?

For what I used to do, wildlife photography, nothing would do but my 20-year old fujifilm camera (the professional cameras being well out of my price range). Birds and beasts are not very cooperative, and while I had a few tricks to get a good shot out of my old camera, new ones just don't work for me. I still do plants and such, but my real passion was to sneak up close to a bird and wait for the right shot.

Anyway, here are a few taken with a digital (shrunk down and cropped obviously). This was after a rainstorm and the water had beaded up on the leaves.

Though the last one is fuzzy I do like it because you can see the ground reflected perfectly within the drop itself.

Thanks, I like these ones. I also liked your real passion, it must be fun. But I still can't understand how a contemporary cheap digital cam fails to fulfill your needs. Photographing needs. Anyways, matter of preference I guess.