Photography

I've been messing around with a camera since 1988. In my younger days (as it were) I didn't know all that much about the art of photography. Thankfully, I was also constrained by it costing me something like 30p every time I pressed the shutter so the evidence from those times is somewhat limited in volume!

I have a digital compact and digital SLR. (I used to have a film SLR and a negative scanner, but these found better homes.) The digital knocks the spots off a scan from a slide, though I'm prepared to concede this may not be the case if you're happy to pay for the really high-end tiny-grain film cartridges.

I prefer the compact to the SLR - counter-intuitively, you might imagine - but it's all down to convenience. Being able to carry the compact unobtrusively and whip it out quickly outweighs the number of times I wish for a longer lens, an adjustable flash or fully-manual exposure control. But it does happen; I've started using filters for the DSLR and thinking about my depth of field a bit more than I used to. It's possible that I'll look into micro four-thirds at some point, but that format is still pretty expensive for what it is.

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