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I'm SUCH a Sucker
I prolly should have browsed through my back pages before I went to Amazon this morning because had I done so I would have seen it's only been a mere three years since I bought my dSLR. The camera isn't really THAT old, as far as cameras go. As a matter of fact my Powershot G5 is a lil over seven years old and I use that lil thang a lot more than I use the SLR.
All the foregoing didn't stop me from ordering what you see on the left... a Canon T3i... which is an incremental improvement on my current SLR. I do like the addition of an articulated viewing screen, which is a big part of why the G5 gets more use than my SLR. There are other bells and whistles on the new body and there are a LOT more megapixels, too. But those are rather small reasons to upgrade, all things considered. As the title sez: I'm SUCH a sucker.
You're into camera prOn, eh?
ReplyDeleteOne of these days I hope to SHOOT some camera pr0n. Heh.
ReplyDeleteI've been a Canon user since the AE-1, and can't stand the user interface of competitors. Thus they have me locked-in.
ReplyDeleteI still have one film camera left, but it is a Toyo 4x5, and I haven't used it in five years, nor mixed the chemicals to process the transparencies. It used to be, that magazines only accepted 4x5 transparencies. Now they think you are a whacko.
I stopped the camera race when they started combining movie and sound. Damnit, I just want a still camera!
I write the reviewers and Canon every year. I tell them to compare the viewfinder on the camera to an AE-1 as the standard. The AE-1 had a wonderful viewer, with a split focus in the center. The center was magnified, and as you focused you could see the two images line-up. That was the kind of focus you used in non-SLR cameras, so when the Canon AE-1 combined split-focus and Through-The-Lens (TTL) viewing, then we had something better than sex!
Alas, I use my 20D for everything still, although I bought a G12 for trips and movies. The G12 promptly pissed me off for having no F16 setting. No F16, but can take pictures in the dark. What a trade-off...
On a scale of 1 to 10, I give the 20D viewfinder a 2. It is half the size of an AE-1 and is designed for people with non-50 year old eyes. Maybe the Japs have smaller eyes I suspect.
You're a REAL photographer, Picture... I'm just a dilettante. I have an old Olympus OM-1 I refuse to part with, even though I haven't run a roll of film through it in over ten years. I carried that thing all over the world and it has a lot of memories attached to it, even as an inanimate object.
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