Fifty is just a nifty number, but more over 200 hundred now, time flies so fast, Yesterday, I posted on a entry where after 3 months, a photographer was itchy for gear.
got me thinking, I am helping/teaching a couple of my nephews with photography. One got a D90 and the other a D70. Both great cameras.
to focus on the basics, gave them a couple old manual lens, one being the 100mm and the other a 50mm. Old series E.
These lens can be picked up for under a hundred dollars for both if you shop around.
Now, the light meters do not work, so my nephews have to think about the light and set an initial guess, take a shot, and via the historygram dial in the exposure.
Foscus is manual, which slows down the process down, to thinking of the composition. Both lens are very sharp, so the results will be entirely the effort they put into the shots. Happy to report that their skills are jumping by leaps and bounds.
Film was expensive and slow, and if you took a few rolls, well, that was a fair amount of photos, so you had to make each shot count.
We think digital cheap, but it is not, time is expensive, and windows of shots can be very short, so getting the shot right is still key.
So,, I recommend picking up some of these old glass, and use them as your learning vehicle, and then over time move up the food chain in your glass selection.
got me thinking, I am helping/teaching a couple of my nephews with photography. One got a D90 and the other a D70. Both great cameras.
to focus on the basics, gave them a couple old manual lens, one being the 100mm and the other a 50mm. Old series E.
These lens can be picked up for under a hundred dollars for both if you shop around.
Now, the light meters do not work, so my nephews have to think about the light and set an initial guess, take a shot, and via the historygram dial in the exposure.
Foscus is manual, which slows down the process down, to thinking of the composition. Both lens are very sharp, so the results will be entirely the effort they put into the shots. Happy to report that their skills are jumping by leaps and bounds.
Film was expensive and slow, and if you took a few rolls, well, that was a fair amount of photos, so you had to make each shot count.
We think digital cheap, but it is not, time is expensive, and windows of shots can be very short, so getting the shot right is still key.
So,, I recommend picking up some of these old glass, and use them as your learning vehicle, and then over time move up the food chain in your glass selection.