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I'm somewhat of an "armchair" photographer —meaning that
when I a chance to take pictures, I try to photograph something unusual
and try to make it interesting in some manner. I've scanned some of the
photos I've taken over the years and compiled some Photo
Albums in order to share them with you.
I have one Film and two Digital cameras. The Film camera is a Yashica
FX-3 SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera. It is a purely manual camera
which I got back in the early 1980's, and I own two lenses for it: The
standard Yashica 50mm lens, and a Tokina SZ-X270, 28-70mm zoom lens.
Both lenses have haze filters attached to protect the lens elements.
Most of my shooting is with 200, 400 or 800 speed film, preferably
from Agfa or Fuji. Though I mainly use colour print film, I
occasionally use Slide or Black and White film.
Since I don't have an in-home darkroom, I need to take my exposed film
to a photo lab. I'm lucky in that I found a first rate Camera shop, New
York Camera and Video, nearby. Unlike most Camera shops, which send
film out for processing, they do all the work on-site because their
primary clientele is professional photographers. True, it costs a bit
more than if I took my film elsewhere, but the results are worth it.
My low-end Digital camera takes pictures at 640x480 resolution, and is
by all accounts an all around cheap affair. I use it mainly for quick
shots that I'm not overly concerned about. My good Digital camera is a
3.4 megapixel Casio EX-3000 camera. I got it late in 2001 on account
of a project I was working on, which required a Digital camera. It has
a 3x optical/2x digital zoom, can save images in three levels of
quality and at two resolutions: 1024x768 and 1280x1024. The camera uses
CompactFlash (CF) media for storage, and also supports microdrives. All
in all, it is a nice mid-level camera, but someday, I want to trade it
in for a Digital SLR camera.
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