Archive for July 6th, 2008
My first SLR Camera
by Andy on Jul.06, 2008, under General
I’ve had my eyes on Digital SLR cameras for a number of years – inspired by some of the brilliant photographs of James and RuneT. I’ve wanted to get more creative with the kind of photographs I take, and learn a little more about the art of a good photograph.
When my Canon Powershot A75 bit the dust after five years of happy service, I decided to take the plunge into the arcane, and expensive world of SLR photography and purchased a Canon EOS 450D.
In many ways, digital photography has made SLR cameras much better value for money. No longer do you have to spend money on individual films and processing is instant, so there is no wait to see if the picture will come out as intended. I certainly would have been put off if I’d spent the money and waited the time for a film to be processed only for all the photographs to turn out blurred.
A DSLR allows you to be free to experiment. Whereas once I would have been tempted to play it safe and stick with an autofocus every time – I can now spend the time to compose a shot and experiment with different settings.
I’m still only at the very beginnings, and I’ve not ventured as far as completely manual operation of the aperture and shutter speeds – despite the camera being very intuitive, some of the advanced settings will take a read of the manual.
However, for the first time, I was able to construct a shot and control the depth of field to get the effect I was after. So I present to you, my (almost) first ever SLR photograph:
