yeah i know taw, im looking around for a marco lens for the pentax im using, but apparently theyre in high demand right now.

I beg to differ Taw, I find digital to be a far more effective medium for learning than film as you can see your result immediately. You can blast off as many shots as you like at different settings, that along with the exif data you can see exactly where you went wrong or right the minute you get your mem card back to your pc. The only real difference between SLR and DSLR is ISO sensitivity as opposed to film sensitivity, everything else can be played with exactly the same way. That is unless you were trying to point out the inadequacies of a point & shoot camera as opposed to an SLR, then I whole heartedly agree. Personally if I were you ff, i'd be ditching your p&s and saving your pennies for a low end DSLR, preferably a model compatible with your dad's lense collection. If a DSLR is to far out of your reach a prosumer digital can be an effective alternative, especially for learning the ins and out of metering, exposure, sensitivity and colour temperature. Seriously the number of pro photographers using film is diminishing at a rapid rate.

Edited by - Mustang on 10/14/2004 8:47:38 PM

yeah so what mustie, learn film and you've got the basis for creating better photos with a dslr, and i wont have to lay out cash for an slr, as i can use dads.

in anycase if i get a dslr it'll be the eos 300d. When ive saved up.

Greetings from the Yorke Peninsula

This is from a few weeks ago, just got around to cropping it properly.

i'll have some film pictures to show soon, i'll get them put on a cd.

film forever!

I'll never abandon my slr. all this new gangled stuff will come and go but good ol' film will still remain. just like vinyl records and valave amps. warmer truer reproduction.

well...i...er feel a bit stupid, i loaded film into my camera, went out shooting, the wheel showing the correct amount of exposures, sent it off processing, only to find out the reel was blank ( >_< !"£$%^ ) went to check on the other reel and the same thing happened.

well thems the breaks i guess.

id have gotten some great shots of seagulls wading in a puddle, and a little westie running through the puddle after the gulls.

as strange as this may sound taw, i agree with you, maybe its the more hands on approach a film slr gives you.

<Edit > i did it again, i managed to in correctly load 3 out of 4 films i took with me to canterbury cathedral :'(

however This shot seems to make up for it, it was taken with my pentax k1000 using jessops black and white film

Edited by - freighter fighter on 10/28/2004 7:58:07 AM

That is beautiful shot ff, fantastically composed. Well done.

thanks mustie, was it your idea to unsticky the thread?

Nope, im thinking stinger unstickied them all and then provided link to all the ex-stickies in a single sticky. IMO the forum looks much better for it too.

i dont

I do, this thread never deserved to be stickied in the first place to be honest. We'll all keep it alive anyway, so there's no reason for it to be stickied.

wish me luck, im putting together a portfolio, first person to see it will most likely be the picture desk editor for kent messenger, ive managed to land some worke experience with them, two days a week to start with, one day seeing how the picture desk works, another on the road with a photographer.

Good luck!!