I luv it!!
Roots in physics and photography, which was strictly not on the options at GCSE or A-level... although there was art, paint, music...
My favourite physics teacher offered it. He showed me how to use the darkroom. He cut us a roll of B&W film each. I got a decent SLR camera from my parents, and got right into the details of lenses, shutter, aperture, field of view... teacher is dead, from his excursions to the poles, researching the ozone layer - the cold damaged his arm. My IT master (biologist) died. My housemaster died from his suicide running about on a motorway, because his wife left him
I have ancient photos of schoolmates. I got poses out of 'em, acting with smoking in the bike sheds, and play fighting with hockey sticks. Not enough. Due to SA!
Got some colour done. Night traffic lights long time smears on a hill with a tripod in a layby, when I was 14.
I was the first to buy a digital in the '90s and 2000s. Holidays after graduation were film ones... on CD
Managed a quality DSLR while on my last earning job. My collection: 5,208
Mum liked photoing me. Ignoring all the above, I know the value of recording images. I've never done video / sound yet. I hated phone cameras immediately. :thumbdown:
There are no proper lenses on a baby fone. Pinhole crap. Ignore mega wegga pixels. Get some glass. Worth the effort - persuading people to pose, and the fear of having the machine knicked or smashed when I point it at people.
10 mp is all you ever need, unless one day you want to print images the size of the Atlantic Ocean, or a 60" screen / projector at home. My little 2 mp compact cam was more than enough to view fullscreen now. Plugged straight into TV in 2002
I try not to get into the pics too much. It's all for age 90-100..? :crying:
