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When I started considering the purchase of a DSLR unit, which means an upgrade from my use of a compact point-and-shoot digital camera, I made it a point to do a thorough check. Basically since the price of an average DSLR camera is not something that can be joked about. Who's to throw away a thousand dollars or something nowadays?
So around August 2009 timeframe, I started visiting review sites and reading on brochures, looking out for promotional items posted on dailies, store fliers, etc., etc. That was when I was introduced to the world of the digital photography through the use of DSLR. I read the specs of the units, and along with the step-by-step learning of the terminologies of the technical aspects of the DSLR, as well as the layman terms, I was reviewing the very small knowledge about snalog SLR cameras that I had from long time ago.
After that exercise, I frequented the store nearest my office, which is just at the mall along the way to my home - where our shuttle bus usually drops us off. I started conversing with the salesmen, befriending them in the process, a 10- to 15-min visit every other day or so, and trying to get a feel by getting a hands-on of the camera units - up close and personal.I got the package I was waiting for - a Nikon D5000 that has a twin lens kit, a short glass 918- to 55-mm) and a medium telephoto 955- to 200-mm) glass, and a ton of other freebies. The price, if something to be thought of, as I would discover, is just the same as offered in other stores, but of course, without the freebies. The freebies made all the difference, if, when bought separately, would be about 30% of the price of the promotional package.
Of course, not everyone would agree to my liking or have the same taste or preference as me. So whenever I see other brands of DSLR coming into view (like when we have occasions or events) where a handful of photographers come around to do shoots, be they beginners or not, i don't close my mind to considering the other brand. My analog SLR was a Canon, which I passed down to my sister. Bought in 1998, it was still in good condition 12 years later. I just didn't know anything about photography then, or, should I say, wasn't that much considering photography as a hobby.
Things are different now, 12 years later. Having 4 daughters should be enough reason for me to get into the art of photography. The skills can be used not only for hobby purposes, but for livelihood as well. For who can tell what's in the future? Only that we have to be prepared, and what better way to do something that is of your interest?In my family, it is a long line already...
My grandfather owned a darkroom.
My father bought a number of those cameras in the 1960s, and I remember using those 'boxes' which you have to open up on top, see the view, then take a picture. I even burned the front lens of one of the units - I mean, as a child, we are so curious - to the point of causing some irreversible damages to who knows what?
But the one thing that I liked that my father did was to spruce up my sister's 8x10 black-and-white picture with a very subtle oil paint. Hey, that is Photoshop the manual way!I guess that if Photoshop were that thing of the past, he would be one of those very early users of this software...
One thing I got from his vault is a 1965 metallic tripod. Not a very sturdy one, a lightweight, and still useable tripod. Still shiny, still rugged. Older than me, but still working.
Hopefully, today's DSLRs can be passed down to our next generation, just like the olden days' camera units.
But then again, that remains to be seen...
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