I feel sort of stupid now.
This has been frustrating me quite a bit over the past few weeks. But a solution of sorts just occured to me.
One of those: REEEEAAALLY NOW, DUMBASS? moments or something.
Lately the limitation of my digital camera’s lens has really been bothering me (it’s not a full DSLR so unfortunately it is not removable either, or it’d be simple and I’d just buy a different lens when I have money-which is a lot cheaper than having to buy a camera base too). Mostly it’s the aperture range. It doesn’t go wide enough for what I'd like to do with it (and it has an auto focus I can't make manual) … I want it into the 1.x range, but my goes to … 2.8.
But I remember I have a fully manual camera in my closet. Granted it shoots film, not jpg or digital raw. But I’m pretty sure it’s F-stops go into the 1.x range. At any rate I know it has manual focus, and that is something else I could use to achieve the effects that I’m wanting. (This is a cheap non-brand camera though, so I won't be getting any new lenses for it or anything, but I'd rather save that for some future DSLR anyway--without a darkroom film shooting has limitations of its own that would annoy me were I to use it solely.)
So I’d be shooting on really cheap film, because I need something WalMart will develop. But that’s nothing scanning the photo and running a color/general edit through photoshop wouldn’t fix.
I’ll also have a bit of a learning curve getting used to the camera again, LCD screen preview *really* becomes a crutch after awhile--I've become lazy about thinking settings through (probably one of the reasons why my photo quality has been suffering too). Now the digital LCD preview is certainly useful, but it’s very different than shooting with film. With film there’s no option to delete, there’s a very finite amount of space, and you get one chance per exposure. But it’s certainly an option I should be exploring.
Maybe I’ll pull the camera out later and have a go. It won’t really take fine macro shots like my digi cam (but it's not like I really need the macro unless I'm trying to get faceup details anyway), but it’s taken good doll photos before. Several of them really.
Taking a look at the camera, it definitely goes to 1.7 (and on the other end extends to 22 … so if for some reason I wanted a narrower aperture I’m really covered far and beyond as well … I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever really went past 16 even taking photography of buildings or landscape unless I needed the narrow aperture to adjust for light or something, cause I was a total noob last time I used this camera).
(Actually I'm still a total noob really, I just sound smart because I happen to know a few fancy terms to toss around.)
One of those: REEEEAAALLY NOW, DUMBASS? moments or something.
Lately the limitation of my digital camera’s lens has really been bothering me (it’s not a full DSLR so unfortunately it is not removable either, or it’d be simple and I’d just buy a different lens when I have money-which is a lot cheaper than having to buy a camera base too). Mostly it’s the aperture range. It doesn’t go wide enough for what I'd like to do with it (and it has an auto focus I can't make manual) … I want it into the 1.x range, but my goes to … 2.8.
But I remember I have a fully manual camera in my closet. Granted it shoots film, not jpg or digital raw. But I’m pretty sure it’s F-stops go into the 1.x range. At any rate I know it has manual focus, and that is something else I could use to achieve the effects that I’m wanting. (This is a cheap non-brand camera though, so I won't be getting any new lenses for it or anything, but I'd rather save that for some future DSLR anyway--without a darkroom film shooting has limitations of its own that would annoy me were I to use it solely.)
So I’d be shooting on really cheap film, because I need something WalMart will develop. But that’s nothing scanning the photo and running a color/general edit through photoshop wouldn’t fix.
I’ll also have a bit of a learning curve getting used to the camera again, LCD screen preview *really* becomes a crutch after awhile--I've become lazy about thinking settings through (probably one of the reasons why my photo quality has been suffering too). Now the digital LCD preview is certainly useful, but it’s very different than shooting with film. With film there’s no option to delete, there’s a very finite amount of space, and you get one chance per exposure. But it’s certainly an option I should be exploring.
Maybe I’ll pull the camera out later and have a go. It won’t really take fine macro shots like my digi cam (but it's not like I really need the macro unless I'm trying to get faceup details anyway), but it’s taken good doll photos before. Several of them really.
Taking a look at the camera, it definitely goes to 1.7 (and on the other end extends to 22 … so if for some reason I wanted a narrower aperture I’m really covered far and beyond as well … I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever really went past 16 even taking photography of buildings or landscape unless I needed the narrow aperture to adjust for light or something, cause I was a total noob last time I used this camera).
(Actually I'm still a total noob really, I just sound smart because I happen to know a few fancy terms to toss around.)