bill_drummond1

go for it! BUT don't go trading 'buying film' for 'buying cameras' I've shot digital (true beer budget shooting) 7 years and now have 5 cameras!

 

If you know your Fuji S7000 inside and out fine, but unless you know and have shot your present camera to the point of exaustion hold off.

 

Of course the last 7 years there have been so many changes............ 'why I own 5 cameras'.

My first camera was a Yasyka 35mm (spelling is wrong, have no idea) that I bought off the PX trailer in Viet Nam just out of the DMZ in 1968. It had a fixed 50mm (?) lense and manual everything and a little light that went from orange (?) to green when the light was 'okay' to shoot. Focusing was by a matt/circle that was split focus.

 

Used it until 1998 when I gave it to a friends daughter for photography class - she still has it. I used it off/on all those years usually shooing landscape shots in the Coast Range (real name) here in Oregon

 

Been shooting digital since 1998 and now using a Olympus c-4000 for the last two years. After 7 years of digital I'm finally learning how to shoot manual (again?) and when I feel I understand I'll get a Nikon M10 (any other basic camera as good?) and go back to shooting landscape (beer budget) this time in the Cascade.

 

Your question was quite a suprise. Only decide to go back to 35mm film after talking to the ower of Focal Point Photography. His advice was learn to use full manual on the Oly, and then decide if I really wanted to go back to 35mm and a light table.

 

Tks, suprised to find the first forum/question the same as what I've been thinking about, 37 years later.

 

Bill D. Salem, Oregon...... Doesn't rain all the time, just every day.

I once bought a .3 megapixel digital camera that used a plastic bead for a lense. Got a photo of our cat (as a kitten) hanging upside down in a tree. its 4X6 framed on our kitchen wall......... Camera cost $35.

 

Is yours a $9 cell phone? Outragous to imply it has a camera. Some one help this guy!!!

You want to clean up a photo or be a graphics designer. Started with Photoshop 4.0 Now using Elements 2. Crop, alignment, contrast, saturation, clone tool, upsharp mask, dodge/burn, and a few other tools (slide show so you can compair the orgional to several saves as you work) your tweeking a photo.

 

You can find these tools in almost all 'photo editing' software. I like Elements, Paint Shop Pro, Gimp, (Gimp is free).

 

If you want to do more than this then get Photoshop 7 and beat the hell out of our photo and you to can make any photo look like a ....

Pro Digital Shoooter PDS goes to COSCO. I've used Winco, good stuff but COSCO does bigger prints - talked with Shoooter yesterday. Photos are satin finished.

Don't let the fact that digital auto focus makes you wait and miss the street shots..... I wanted a inexpensive pocket shooter and quite by accident found the fix focus digital P&S DON'T have a wait for focus wait. Carry it all the time and shoot anything I see - fixed focus does have advantages.