woo!

whoo! just got a new camera - I'm so down for this.

hooray! i just got a digital camera for my birthday, so I'll be going nuts too.

Wayne Arthurs, Celebrity GP 2008

Self Portrait, thomasr and his baby boy.

Hong Kong, 2006.

stupid machine.

2006?

i'm glad people are still following the rules.

nice photos, but.

all mine are march! :P

Aw. Nice self portrait Thomas.

Hong Kong, erm, today.

fuck fuck fuck. i'm going to bed.

Yeah, I like Thomasr's as well. Is good.

from golden plains on my nifty new P&S

incognito! you were at GP? how did I miss you?

they was goin' incognito?

sorry. that was terrible. it's late.

i was angling for that dear. but it is a serious question too...

puts on Diamond Sea CD

gloats

ahhh this all makes sense. the person who is after said camera already has a a point and shoot and would probably class herself as ''semi serious''.

But she may have to do with a cheaper camera as i am ''semi broke''.

kev, i have a 1980's pentax SLR super A with a 50mm prime lens and a wind angle lens, which saucyjack assures me is quite special.

saucyjack set me up with recommendations for setting up film developing at home, and i defer to his wisdom. i must say my shots on film far superior to digital.

i got a good but cheap scanner, being a canon 300 something. it rocks.

wide not wind.

unless you are spending loads on those lenses (the 18-55mm and 30-70mm etc), which I doubt you are - please don't waste the money! Those lenses are total crap, of course you can get beautiful zoom lenses, but they are lots and lots of money. Buy the camera body on its own and invest in a lovely fixed focal length standard lens, then add the wide and the telephoto to it later. Look for 'fast' lenses - as in bigger apertures. You should be able to get a 50mm f1:4 which will give you glorious pictures.

My 2c

You should be able to get a 50mm f1:4 which will give you glorious pictures.

These are so nice, but you'd be looking at a pretty high price for a good one for a digital camera.

I pretty much religiously use one on my analogue camera. Minolta MD with original 'includes traces of radiation' lens glass \m/ So pretty, cost me $50 outta some cardboard box packed away in the store room of a camera supply joint.

Beautiful for street stuff and portraits, but can be restricting when it comes to landscapes or architecture etc.

My suggestion Kevin Arnold, would be quite the opposite to orange_blossoms in that you'd have more fun with a wide angle zoom to begin with, maybe an 18-75mm. Let you have more variety in your photos until you find a style you really like, then you could spend big on whatever fixed lenses you prefer.

I would also recommend staying away from Nikon D60's. They're pretty much trash and REALLY restrictive on the type of lenses you can use. (The auto focus for instance only works with d60 model lenses and no others because the AF and VR modes are built into the lenses as opposed to other models where the AF (auto focus) and VR (vibration reduction) are built into the cameras.)

I got a Sony A200 a little while back which i think is a pretty sweet entry level SLR. Only about $900 from Digital Camera Warehouse and included an 18-70 wide angle and 75-300 kit lens in the price. Comes out with pretty nice photos and can push exposure pretty hard before any grain shows up, plus you've got 20 years worth of Minolta Lenses you can throw on it. All up at DCW I spent $1050, got the camera, 2 lenses, awesome carry bag, 4 gig memory card and a 3 year extended warranty. That place is the shit. - Only problem is, they don't charge any of their cameras, so if you wanted to test them out, you might have to go somewhere else, then when you find what you want just go buy it from DCW. All their stock is Australian with Australian warranties too, no dodgy Hong Kong Grey Imports and shit.

Hope this is helpful.

Heres a couple of shots from the A200 I've taken just messing around:

Hey.. What happened to photography club? Should we revive it??

I'm down for it.

What topic?

Sounds like fun.

Yep. Do it air crash!

+1

Do you guys trust me to pick a new topic?

We should make it cool. LIke, you know how there's those nerdy photo clubs? We can be a cool photo club.

Would peeps be keen to make it a weekly thing? I reckon that's the best way to do it, rather than lad-di-da whenever..

And it can be whichever medium you choose, digital slr, pinhole, phoneography, polaroid, film.. Whatevs.. Or maybe we should exclude phoneography? That's not a bad idea actually.

i'm up for this.

while i'm busy being up for this, someone wanna tell me a reasonably priced camera repair shop in melbs? i have a busted canon ftb and canon t50 on my hands that i'm desperate to get fixed.

how about fortnightly instead of weekly? otherwise (at least for me) it'll feel really rushed and not just a fun thing to do. Also, especially if you're using film.

how about monthly instead of fortnightly? In the past it's taken people a few weeks to get their shit together.

Got a theme in mind air crash?

fortnightly would be good i reckon, or monthly. weekly too often when you're working with film.

monthly!

Film people need some turnaround time.. also, it allows people a chance to up-themselves.. share ideas and get better... right?

I reckon fortnightly or monthly.

I can't think of a topic, so i'm happy to entrust someone else to it. Go for your life aircrash.

In case you folks haven't seen it..

New Photo Club thread here..

http://www.messandnoise.com/discussions/4265745