Digital cameras

MJ_KC · #1 12-04-2007, 05:57 PM

What kind of digital camera does everyone here use? I just upgraded from an Olympus 3.2 MP camera to a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT 8 MP camera with an 18 to 55 mm zoom lens. As soon as I can locate one, I will also get the 75 to 300 mm telephoto lens. They sold the last one yesterday at the store where I got the camera, so I will have to call around a bit.

So far this camera has shown itself to be exceptional. Picture clarity is hard to believe.

**FireProf** · #2 12-04-2007, 07:05 PM

Used to be into photography and had a few 35mm cameras and several different lenses but it was a hobby I didn't pursue any longer and now we just have a Canon EOS and each of us has a Canon Sure Shot digital.

All three work enough for us.

luvnaturism · #3 12-05-2007, 10:06 AM

I still own a nice SLR film camera with a good set of lenses. However, a few years back I finally admitted to myself that the reason the camera was sitting unused was that I am no longer willing to carry a bulky camera around with me. I bought a 7 megapixel Olympus digital camera that fits in my shirt pocket (or in a pocket of my backpack if I'm hiking nude).

My wife is the enthusiastic photographer. She has a newer model Olympus that gets a lot of work. When we travel I take my laptop along, and she downloads her pictures every night so that she can work on them. On a recent trip I took maybe 50 pictures while she was taking 1200+.

Pete Knight · #4 12-05-2007, 10:17 AM

Never been into photography, always managed to make a complete hash of it, for every 24 exposure film I only ever got about 18 half decent photos out it, but since the advent of digital photography I can view and delete any thumb, foot or nasal upshots without the local film processing lab having a laugh at my expense.

To hell with the old fashioned way, I'm very happy with my digital camera, you purist photographers can keep your chemicals.

Pete Knight

**PascoDoug** · #5 12-05-2007, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by MJ_KC

What kind of digital camera does everyone here use? I just upgraded from an Olympus 3.2 MP camera to a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT 8 MP camera with an 18 to 55 mm zoom lens.

So far this camera has shown itself to be exceptional. Picture clarity is hard to believe.

I also have a Canon 8MP digital camera (Powershot A630) and am very pleased with it. The picture quality is amazing. I also use a Canon scanner and printer, both of which are excellent. Canon definitely puts out quality stuff!

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As soon as I can locate one, I will also get the 75 to 300 mm telephoto lens. They sold the last one yesterday at the store where I got the camera, so I will have to call around a bit.

You might want to try Ebay. I bought a nice wide angle lens on there for my last camera.

**Boreas** · #6 12-05-2007, 10:34 AM

I currently have a Sony Cybershot that is a couple of years old. I love it. I have been playing around with some of the settings lately and ended up taking a ton of pictures during a road trip in the summer. The picture in my avatar was taken with that picture.

Now I am lusting after the newer Sonys and the digital SLRs.

Some day.

MJ_KC · #7 12-05-2007, 11:11 AM

What is amazing with these cameras is the fact that at high resolution I can still save over 500 pictures to the 2 GB CF card. That is a major improvement over my older Olympus camera.

I will still use the old camera though when I want a smaller camera to carry. It does really good for most pictures, but the new one is a major step up. My avatar was made with the Olympus. It is going to be too cold to be doing any nude shots outside for quite a few months.

MoonShadow · #8 12-05-2007, 11:31 AM

Guess I am old fashion but I continue to use my Nikkon and Minolta SLR 35 mm camera over my Sony 8.5 mp digital. I like to work a camera for a shot and that is what the 35 mm SLR allows you to do. Time exposures are one of my favorites and I love to use filters to create different effects using the light you are time exposing in.

Digitals reign for certain but I'll take my 35s ........

NakedGary · #9 12-05-2007, 09:15 PM

I kept my film SLR's and lens sets from the 60-70's but rarely use them as a nudist photographer just has no place to put them unless you want to sling bags or cases around and change lens.

During large annual nudist events with 2,500 in attendance, digital images and video can be uploaded & projected to large screens on the same evening as the event which is usually a big hit for those in attendance. This would be next to impossible with film cameras.

For six years I have gotten by with a 3.2MP & Zoom digital camera that has served me well in all kinds of environments from moisture, heat to sandy environments not to mention sun tan/block lotion smeared occasionally on the rear LCD and front element of the zoom lens.

I recently splurged for a HD High Definition Still/Video digital camera with optical image stabilization, and higher zoom capabilities with digital stereo sound. Very nice to have high performance, high resolution, larger zoom and HD performance out of one light, hand size digital camera that has manual as well as a complete range of auto modes and settings.

I also have a dedicated high resolution film/transparency scanner, and a Canon high resolution flatbed scanner for projects planned before the old Kodachrome and Ektachrome negatives,transparencies and prints taken many years ago fade or change color more so, and boxes of old family prints and negatives. [Good cold day and winter projects to get everything archived to digital and optical format if I can ever can get around to it..]

NudistGuy47 · #10 12-05-2007, 09:52 PM

I currnetly use a Nikon D80 with multiple lenses. I enjoy the hobby and will shoot most anything.

I also still use the 17 yo Nikon 6006 with multiple lenses and filters. I am learning the D80 can do the whole gamut the 6006 does, so it is fun discovering the tools.

Whatever one has, I hope they just enjoy the shooting and viewing of the pics.