No more waiting
Dec 30 '00
My wife and I have been taking pictures of our kids since each one of them were born, they are 12, 7 and almost 2 years old. Our first camera was one of those auto everything camera made by Vivitar. It wasn't one of the expensive SLR models that have all the interchangeable lens, but one of the simple camera's for your novice photographer. We took so many pictures of our daughter since she was our first child and we bought all kinds of photo albums.
After our second child was born we continued to take tons of pictures and went through tons of film, and also spent tons of money on developing of the film. We had to get double prints of picture we took so we could send pictures to our family. Eventually we wore out that first camera, and since I just got out of the military and we moved to a new area, we didn't have the money to buy a new camera.
So we started using those new one use camera's that were new on the market. They were so convenient, all we had to do was purchase the camera and take the pictures and turn the whole camera in for development. Our third child was born and then money really started getting tight, so our picture taking has really tapered off. So we were looking for a solution to our little problem. Our parents were always asking for new pictures of their grandkids, well we didn't have new pictures to send them.
While reading through a PC magazine, I saw what I thought might be answer to our little problem. It was an article on creating digital pictures and printing them on a printer.
Digital Images vs. Point and shoot pictures:
Going digital was the best thing we could have done, we no longer had to pay for rolls of film or buy the one use cameras to take pictures to send to our family. The digital pictures were sent to our PC across a cable connected to our PC, so there was no developing and then we could display them on our monitor. We could instantly decide which pictures we wanted to keep and which ones to delete.
If we were still using a standard 35 mm camera and film we would still be waiting until we could take the film to Walmart and have them developed and printed. Then we would have to take them to be scanned and put on a CD or diskette. Then we have to copy them from diskette or CD to our drive so we could send them in an email or print them out.
One more great feature of digital images over standard print pictures, with digital images you don't have to have large photo albums to put your pictures, they are stored within a virtual photo album on your hard drive or they can be copied to other removable media such as a zip disk or a super disk media.
The biggest thing I hated about 35 mm cameras is having to wait to find out if the picture I just took did turned out. I would be taking pictures of my kids and not really paying attention to lighting and other things like my finger covering the lens. Well, with 35 mm camera I wouldn't know I did until I took the film or camera to be developed and I would get pictures either so dark or with my finger in the way.
With digital images I get to see as I am taking them and if I don't like a certain picture I can delete it and try again. I also can make enhancements to the images before I print them out, using software that is included with the digital device we use to create the images.
The last point I would like to make as far as Digital vs. Standard Point and Shoot cameras. Is quality of the picture is self, I have not seen much difference in the actual picture quality from the 35 mm cameras I have used and the digital images. Mind you I was not using expensive camera equipment, so I cannot speak for the quality compared to a professional photographers work and mine. I can only tell you when I printed out a picture on photo paper and I compared it to some of my pictures that I took in the past using a 35 mm camera and had it developed and at Walmart I couldn't see much difference.
The biggest difference with digital, I got to choose which pictures I printed. I didn't get that choice with my 35 mm film developing, a Walmart employee decided which pictures from the film got printed. I also can make alterations to an image before I print it, try doing that with a roll of film at Walmart.
As far as I am concerned I will not go back to standard 35 mm cameras again. I have had such great success using digital imaging, I will continue to use it and change as the technology changes.
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