All About My Camera Love

posted on 31 January 2012 | posted in Recreation and Hobbies

I tend to find that when I have a choice of camera available to me, be it a professional high end piece of equipment, a more affordable disposable camera, camera phone or otherwise, I'll always have a specific job or kind of photo in mind that I want to take with it. I have one professional camera, currently. It's a Canon. Not an overly expensive one, I've seen better, but I have several of the fancy lenses for it and I usually find that it does the best job when I want something really crisp, especially for sunsets or model shots, or maternity photography shots. Having taken my camera phone with me to several gigs in the past, they've never really let me down. Mobile phones are a gadget that I can't quite live without. I can't bring myself to downgrade a phone if I've currently got quite a good camera on mine, but the MP isn't as high on a new one that i'm considering, and why should i? You buy new equipment to upgrade in every way, surely? Camera phones are handy to have on you when you need something small, something portable and light, something quick that you don't have to mess with too many settings to get the result that you want. They're handy too because at some music gigs, you're searched before you enter and cameras are sometimes quite often taken off you! They can't take a phone off you, especially when it's hidden! Of course, some people expect too much from their camera phones sometimes I think, but the fact is, there are quite a few really good ones out there on the market now. My nokia n97 has a Carl Zeiss 5MP camera. For earlier models the cameras had a design flaw, in that the sliding mechanism for the cover was positioned too close to the actual lens which resulted in scratches being left behind over the lens as you slide it open and closed again. No good, obviously. Nokia for a limited time, would offer to replace this part free of charge, and if you were one of the luckier people to either get this replacement, or a newer phone which had the design flaw rectified anyway, for a camera phone it could take some seriously impressive shots. It had a macro setting, cool editing features, and for live gigs and music venues it worked a dream. With its continual recording features, you could record a whole gig without having to stop between songs, and they were good enough quality to upload to websites such as youtube, also not having to compromise on audio quality which was also brilliant. Disposable cameras, I suppose they've faded into the background somewhat these days. It's a shame really, I had some cute memories back in the day going on holiday and making sure to buy one or two disposable cameras to take with me. Just to have the ease of being able to drop them off at the developers after, leaving them there for a week whilst patiently working through the excitement of waiting to go and collect your packet of photos and negatives and flick through tutting at the overexposure or stray fingers in lens shot that you hadn't noticed while taking the photos. Memory cards and digital cameras have taken over, but then we are definitely of the digital age now, and there's nothing bad about that. It's made having a hobby such as photography more easily accessible to everybody, and not only basically or crudely. With a decent camera, a few decent lenses and perhaps a picture editor package on your computer you're quite basically set to open your own studio, more or less. I've seen people go from amateur camera lovers, to calling themselves professional photographers within a matter of weeks simply because they've read a few manuals and worked out all the clever settings on their camera. Some oldies will inevitably get left behind, but that's progress for you. Just like the recent news of Kodak going out of business, all we can hope for is for the remaining companies to put more effort into making their cameras some seriously impressive stuff.