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Photography: June 28, 2005: I'm pretty much done coding the image gallery I'd been working on. Now I'm in the process of scanning and adding pictures. More galleries will appear here soon, and more images will appear in the galleries that are already set up.
My love of and lust after photography is subject to “kicks” just like everything else in my life. Sometimes I'll be seen with literally 5 cameras on my person at once; other times I'll just have my wee digital in my pocket. I greatly enjoy photography, but I find that I lose much of the experience of what I'm doing if I overly busy myself with taking pictures of it. I was once asked to take pictures at a friend's wedding, and I don't even feel like I was there; I just feel like I watched a tiny movie of it through a viewfinder.
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Pentax ZX-M |
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I love this camera. It's completely manual (except for the film advance/rewind) and gives me a lot of freedom to experiment (especially with a tripod and shutter release cable). My friends often make fun of me when I'm shooting with this, as I'll think nothing of going through 10 or more rolls of film in a day, taking the same pictures over and over with different settings. And the Vivitar Series 1 28-210mm is a great multi-purpose lens, letting me get in really close yet go nice and wide when I need to.
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Horizon 202 |
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This camera is pretty unique. It has a swing-lens, meaning the lens actually rotates from right to left, which allows for a very wide view. The result is a “true panoramic” shot; not just a cropped wide-angle picture, which is what many so-called panoramic cameras take. Although its uses are somewhat limited, the result is pretty cool, especially for landscapes. And the swing-lens can create some interesting distortion effects too.
It took me forever to find a place that could develop these properly, as it produces an odd-sized negative. I now send the film to ImageXperts by mail. All told this is not a camera I use all that often, but when I do the result is really nifty. |
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Canon SD-110 |
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This is my carry-around-all-the-time digital. Nothing special at all. It's actually pretty good for outdoor shots, and some of the manual features yield cool effects, but the killer is the shutter lag. It's no worse than most digital cameras, but it destroys any possibility of taking candid pictures. Sometimes that's not a problem, but most of the time it really is.
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Loreo 3D |
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| This camera is cool. Using two lenses, offset to match the relative position of your eyes, it takes “stereo”—or 3D—pictures. I was skepical when I read about this, but the results are really quite impressive. Of course, not all pictures lend themselves to looking good in 3D: a shot of a piece of paper taped to a wall would be pretty underwhelming. But pictures with multiple levels of depth really spring to life. You need a special viewer to see them properly, and that's really the only hitch. Oh, and the flash is pretty weak, so low light conditions produce poor results. |
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