Photo-Camera-Life

You have to know three basic things that control a photo. Light - Shutter and aperture control Film or sensor sensitivity Depth of field Shutter speed is like the time you allow your tooth paste to flow out. You know how much paste you want, you have control over the speed of the flow of the paste. Same way you control the amount of light that falls on you camera sensor. Aperture is like the opening of your toothpaste case. If you have bigger opening of the tube, you slow down your paste flow or vice versa. Because amount of your tooth paste is constant. So, for a same light, you can have same amount of light with different combination of shutter speed and aperture. You increase aperture one stop, you have to decrease shutter speed one stop. Then why we have so many aperture and shutter values. Different aperture give you different depth of field. Narrower opening give a lot of field in front of the camera in focus. Higher shutter speed gives you opportunity to freeze ...

Life gives you...life and incidents. We choose whether to call them happy or sad experiences. We escaped from boring life and choose to live with less income in terms of money but be more rich with incidents. Tithal is our first sole outing post arrival in India. tithal is a normal town of India like any other town that is by the side of the sea. It though does not have typical houses of other beach cities like Daman, Alibaug, Karwar, Om beach etcetera. It has Black sand, muds yet to 3 of us it gave our first relaxing week end. We just sat by the beaches from 11 O'clock morning to 7 O'clock evening doing almost ....nothing. We talked a lot, listened to songs sitting in our car by the side of the beach for hours. Brishti played with sand, collected live crabs to make them her pet. She carried them home too. Our new asset, an used Esteem VXI proved to be a capable long run car. It is a fun to ride this car. It has quite an enjoyable engine and light body to accelerate fas...

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Sometimes I get sad, for reasons, for myself too at times. I booked a lens through ebay from a seller living somewhere in Latvia. He took 7 days to send that lens post receiving my money. After all who cares once you get money. I had to leave Abudhabi as I was heading my home country. The lens arrived a week late from the day I left Abudhabi. I took help from my friends and almost 70 days post my payment, I got the lens through five countries and 7 friends. I was sad these last two months for the lens actually. I took 2 months to gather up money to buy one 80mm or such focal length lens to shoot my daughter and my wife to get results from the wonderful sensor of NEX. The lens is an 85mm f2 Jupiter lens. Silver finish 40 years old lens. I tried it with my NEX 3 with an M39 Leica mount adapter...hmmm it didn't focus. WHY? Because the lens is an M39 one but it actually is for an SLR, not for Rangefinder cameras. AAAAGH!!! I do not know why but while ordering that M39 Leica...

Digital days now are days of wants than needs. I buy cameras more than I require. I change cameras for extra capabilities that it has yet I actually do not use it till date. I bought a canon G5 (probably atleast 6 years old now) recently for its fast lens, silent operation, view finder (rare thing in today's LCD cameras), and something more. Which is a long lasting crave for a Canon G. Here are three shots from the camera. I think shooting photographs as much as I can is more important than having a camera as good as I can.

Well I have started with a National 35 camera from one of my relative. Then from 1991 I started shooting with SLR cameras. I do not remember years of their use, but here are list of them mostly in chronological order starting from start. 1) Praktica MTL5 or something 2) Another Praktica, this time a beyonet mount with apperture priority (got damaged by a dear friend) 3) Zenith E 4) Minolta SRT 101 5) Nikon F50 6) Nikon FM2 - took most of my slide films with it. 7) Pentax Spotmatic - real MMM 8) Canon EOS 620 - Serious, intelligent, practical camera 9) EOS 630 10) EOS 650 11) EOS 1 HS - a beast, a working monster 12) Canon QL GIII - I wish I get another GIII in digital era. I have never enjoyed any other camera as much as this one. But this realization came late. Before that, I gifted it to a friend. 13) Yashica FX3 - A beauty with muscle. I made it up with wonderful leathers. With another friend now. 14) Canon 350D - first DSLR, almost like a gift. 15) Pentax k100D ...

One of my dear friend Himadri once raised this query with some very valid points in some other posts which I thought of bringing under discussion (without asking him though). 1) When we see colour in our eyes, we can develop, print in colour so easily then why should we still continue making B/W? 2) We had discovered B/W first, that is why we have used B/W. Otherwise we would have continue colour. I think B/W has its own merits and de-merits. B/W is un real as it has only shades of grey, that attracts us at first. B/W also can easily hides distraction (chaos) that otherwise different colours bring so easily. Only shades of grey brinsgs out forms, shapes, graphics better in some situations. I personally have started using digital photography when one of the reasons was the freedom and easy access to get B/W images and their prints. Getting B/W prints from films was getting difficult and costly. What you all have to say here?