Looking for a digital camera

[Raydawg]

I get pretty silly with my camera...... and it all came to me without me looking for it, but nevertheless, I look at this world A LOT as if I am looking through its viewfinder....... even inside a commercial jet I MUST have a window seat

 

[Webz]

Back in 1979, I was stationed near Fairbanks Alaska. I was a proud owner of 3 Olympus cameras. An OM1, OM2 and OM10. Took a photography course through the University of AK.
All were film cameras. The one thing I remember the instructor saying is "You should be happy if you get one good shot out of every 10 you take."
On the OM2 camera, I had an auto winder. If memory serves me right, it would take 4 to 6 shots per second.
I got invited to go on an incentive flight in an USAF O-2 aircraft. Being an Observation aircraft, it was idea for taking pictures. I took 12 rolls of 36 exposure, color film and all 3 cameras. Out of 432 shots, I got what I considered, eight Good pictures. It was quite expensive to to get them developed.
Nothing like being young, dumb, single and not much to spend your money on other than a hobby in the middle of Alaska.
The bad part is I have no idea what happened to the pictures.
Gave my daughters the cameras. They lost interest quickly and lost the cameras.
Now I use my phone to take pictures of things I take apart so I'll know what it is supposed to look like when I put it back together.
I've taken a few drone pictures, but nothing too exciting.
Photography is fun. There are many different types. I helped a gentleman unload his $30K telescope, that you can only look through it with a computer, and take hours to set up. He showed me some awesome pictures he took.
Then you have people with 3 foot long lens on their 35mm camera taking pictures of nothing but birds.
Then you can get lucky with your phone and get a very decent picture.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, photography is a hobby that takes practice (or luck) to get very good results. And you can spend a little or a lot of money.
Like RVing, it's not for everyone. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Chuggs]

True. At 14…I took a handful of 110 disposable cameras out with me to Philmont (Boy Scout Ranch) in Cimmaron, NM. No cellphones. It felt like burning cash every time you advanced the film. Got into B&W 35mm photography…and built a darkroom in the family basement. It became much more affordable. Penny’s Department store at the local mall even sold darkroom supplies. In high school, I volunteered to be a photographer on the Yearbook Staff. Three of us. The yearbook staff had jerseys with “AS” in Greek letters on the front…Numbers for graduating year on the back…and nickname across the shoulder yoke. You could tell who the photographers were… “EF”, “OM2”, and “F1”. You may recognize the models from Canon, Olympus, and Nikon respectively. Did some color photography…exclusively E6 and Cibachrome…. It was a blast. Today…digital opens a whole new world. Of course it has its detractors. Have you ever wanted to take a quick photo of a National Parks entry sign? But 20 South Korean Girls are posing for Tic-Tok photos/videos…and will block the sign for the next hour. Kinda doubting they would spend that much time if it weren’t for digital.

 

[Neal]

I did the dark room stuff too. I remember the smell! Loved it. Back when you could hang a photo you were proud of, in B&W. Now you take 42 million pictures no one ever sees, but it was fun to take.

 

[Chuggs]

You bring up an excellent point. I need to think about getting a photo inkjet printer, that can take rolled photo stock paper. I would like to maybe have some art on the walls. And I need to think about getting a file together of our travels to put into Echo Show...so that we have a rolling photo display on our Echo devices... My LG TV might even do that. ??? But it does seem futile to have them all stashed on Google Drive or a JUMBO file on my phone, where it is difficult to find the picture you want to see without endless scrolling.,

 

[DennisT]

I use Peakto for organizing the photos and videos I have / take. It does facial recognition so you can tag photos by individuals - uses the locations stamped on the items to display on a map - audio transcription in videos, etc. All of this so you can do searches for say a sunset in NM where your wife was in the picture. Makes searching much easier.

Using Luminar Neo for editing of photos - quite capable when doing raw photos etc. or adding an awesome sky overlay to an existing photo to make it even better.

I use Final Cut Pro for editing video.

Also did the photography development in high school which was cool. Yearbook has a bunch of photos that were mine since I was also on the group putting it together.

Much less expensive to be able to take rapid shots with my Canon 90D and get that one or two out of 100 that are actually worth keeping

Had Go Pros mounted to my Harley when we rode. Came back in 2015 from Sturgis with 65 hours of footage and countless photos. Turned that all into a couple dvd’s for the group cut down to an hour and a half or so and everyone that went had their own copy for watching whenever they want.

It is a fun hobby and looking to get back into the video portion even more now that GoPro has a 360 camera that they released.