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Getting Started
wrote in message ... Me and my dad are really hoping to get into photography. My dad use to be an amateur photographer in his college days and enjoyed using a darkroom. I'm trying to get my dad to purchase a REAL camera so we can take REAL pictures. My dad is not enthused with the new digital technology and claims it takes the creativity and freedom out of photography. I was just curious how much money it would cost to buy a good 35mm camera and to start a makeshift darkroom and even if we should invest in a digital camera and if so what would be a good digital camera and how much does it cost... Thanks! Well, I don't know if I agree that digital removes either the freedom or creativity from photography but its different. I happen to like film. Used film equipment is going very cheaply now. I bit of searching around eBay will give you some idea of prices but I suggest researching a bit so that you know something about what you are buying. The same counts for darkroom equipment. Very good enlargers are going cheap and that is the single most expensive item with the exception of semi-automatic processing machines like the Jobo and even those are much cheaper than they used to be. You really do not need a lot of equipment to get started. The cost of digital depends on whether you include the computer. If your quality standard is not extremely high you can get quite adequate digital cameras for a couple of hundred bucks and very good printers for about the same. Without the computer the cost may be about the same for digital or film except the used stuff for film will generally be higher end than the digital stuff available at the same price. Working in the darkroom requires learning a craft. I think its worth learning and fun. This is not to say that digital does not require skills, certainly people make good money by knowing how to run high level image editing programs like Photoshop but the nature of the skills and craft for "chemical" photography is different. Some knowledge is the same, for instance some idea of how to compose and light. The image to be photographed is independant of the means of photographing it. In any case I encourage you to try old fashioned chemical photography. -- --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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