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By Norm Seeley | October 18, 2008
Back before I went to High School, in Denver, I started taking pictures with a Dual 2 1/4 reflex camera. I used it all through High School, here in Arizona I continued to use the same camera to take pictures around the school for the yearbook. Now that was a film camera, 12 shots and you had to stop and re-load your camera with a new roll of film. I did every thing, pictures of people, events, inside, outside. But I’m one of those people who just took pictures but really wasn’t creative other than to take good pictures that looked like the people I was shooting or the buildings or events I was trying to save for ever. My camera, the brand is unimportant, had a way to focus and a light meter so that the exposure was correct. With little or no effort, more or less if I had pointed the camera in the right direction, set the speed right and read the light meter and set the exposure, I had a good crisp photo. And that’s what I did hundreds of time. Yes stopping every 12 pictures to re-load the film. That’s certainly not the case today. With digital cameras ,you are not limited to 12 pictures then re-load and then 12 more. Nope, depending on the model, we’re now talking about numerous pictures and then maybe the change of a “card” and it’s even more. Some digital cameras are talking hundreds or thousands of pictures before you even have to think about it at all. That means you can head to an event, with your camera, and take picture after picture and capture almost everything and everybody there. And of course share those pictures on the Internet or have them printed the, quote old fashioned way, un-quote.
It’s also no longer just for stills, there are digital video cameras that no longer have a need for tape and you can video record for hours rather than up to an hour like the video cameras I have been used to in the past 10 years. Simply amazing. Kinda puts the fun back into picture and video taking. I have been using a digital still camera for over a year now and learn something new each time I use it.
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