I have camera envy. My sister Val just got a Nikon SLR camera for her graduation - and I'm totally jealous. She's a wonderful photographer just with a point and shoot, and after week one, she's proving to be even more now that she's better equipped. So I want an SLR so I can be just like her.
However, my two cameras are only a year or two old - the petite Sony pocket point cybershot and shoot 1 year, and the larger Sony Cybershot is from two Christmases ago - so I can't justify buying new. I considered trading the big one in, but cameras are so cheap now that they wouldn't give me much for a two year old camera anyhow. PLUS, I realized Val has taken classes in photography - where she gets what the heck an F-Stop is and what ISO means. I don't. So I devised that I really must not be using my cameras to their fullest extent - perhaps only 40% of the current cameras' abilities- and by golly, if I'm going to spend another $500 on a camera (plus accessories), I best know the basics of how to use it; otherwise, I might just let the big expensive camera sit on the shelf and let my pocket camera do all the daily work.
So I'm giving myself an ultimatum. If I want a better camera - go and figure out how to use the ones I already have. I know my larger camera has a manual setting on it - as well as a few others (P, A, ISO), where they set the priorities for how the camera does it's thing. I just don't have the skills to identify which buttons to push yet! So I have a few paths I'm hoping to use in the next year:
However, my two cameras are only a year or two old - the petite Sony pocket point cybershot and shoot 1 year, and the larger Sony Cybershot is from two Christmases ago - so I can't justify buying new. I considered trading the big one in, but cameras are so cheap now that they wouldn't give me much for a two year old camera anyhow. PLUS, I realized Val has taken classes in photography - where she gets what the heck an F-Stop is and what ISO means. I don't. So I devised that I really must not be using my cameras to their fullest extent - perhaps only 40% of the current cameras' abilities- and by golly, if I'm going to spend another $500 on a camera (plus accessories), I best know the basics of how to use it; otherwise, I might just let the big expensive camera sit on the shelf and let my pocket camera do all the daily work.
So I'm giving myself an ultimatum. If I want a better camera - go and figure out how to use the ones I already have. I know my larger camera has a manual setting on it - as well as a few others (P, A, ISO), where they set the priorities for how the camera does it's thing. I just don't have the skills to identify which buttons to push yet! So I have a few paths I'm hoping to use in the next year:
- Take an hour-long class at the camera store in-town
- Join the monthly camera club at the library
- Photograph the crap out of everything to learn on my own - especially mcNugget!
- Take a few week non-credit class at the community college or school district (assuming mcNugget will give me the time)
But before McNugget shows on scene, I'll have to look elsewhere for my lovely subjects. Trotter just happened to be close at hand (well, truthfully, he's never far from being underfoot- where as you have to go looking for Missy under a table). Here's some of the many faces of Mr. No-Pants himself - you can tell he HATES having his picture taken ;)
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