[alt-photo] Re: new digital sensor

[Paul Viapiano]

I still have my Canon D30. Yes, the original dSLR with 3 megapixels...

I don't buy into the whole subscription/upgrade thing, it doesn't make one a 
better photographer, that's for sure.

My Europe series of 9 x 14 inches (approx) pt/pd prints are all from this 
camera (2002) before I started shooting film again.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/viapiano/sets/72157623458364264/

What else do you need, really? The only things I feel I could use are better 
high ISO images and a full frame, but then again I only use this camera less 
than 5% of the time.

Paul


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diana Bloomfield" <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net>
To: "The alternative photographic processes mailing list" 
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Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 2:35 PM
Subject: [alt-photo] Re: new digital sensor


> Yes, Loris; that was my point.  My Canon 5D works perfectly well for  me, 
> but they keep coming out with something newer and better, with  more 
> pixels and more bells and whistles-- and so-- we're either  convinced we 
> have to buy it (whatever it is), through clever  marketing, or we really 
> do have to move on, because it will be made  difficult for us to continue 
> with what works perfectly well for us,  that we may already own.  Same 
> with film cameras-- I have some very  nice ones that I still love using. 
> If I can keep getting film, I can  keep using them.  If I can't, then 
> these perfectly acceptable and  beautifully-working cameras will have to 
> be shelved to gather dust,  until someone can come up with something (very 
> expensive, I'm sure)  for conversion.
>
> Diana
>
> On Mar 23, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Loris Medici wrote:
>
>>  (I imagine Judy yelling "planned obsolescence!" right now -
>> hehehehe...) I still have a Zorki 4K with nice Jupiter 8, 9, 12 lenses
>> and a turret finder, all older than I am, all in good shape, which I
>> know that they will serve me well in case I decide to use them. (As
>> they did back when I was actually using them.) Unfortunately you don't
>> have that with electronic gear - that's my real problem with digital
>> cameras... (Maybe that was exactly what you were referring to.)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Loris.
>>
>>
>> 2010/3/23 Diana Bloomfield <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net>:
>>> ...
>>> I do hate that digital cameras seem to be like cars-- as soon as  you 
>>> remove
>>> them from the store (or drive them off the lot),  already they're
>>> out-of-date and beginning their rapid depreciation, it seems.
>>> ...
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