Category: photography

Point and Shoot Sadness

I didn’t use my Nikon point and shoot at all over the weekend. I took it out of the back pack on the drive home and much to my sadness, the lens cover was damaged somehow. It won’t close when the camera is off and it won’t open all the way when the camera is on. I can’t seem to fix it.

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Looks like my official point and shoot camera is now the little Casio that Jen bought me as an engagement present. I used it for today’s photo-a-day, more in a symbolic way than anything else.

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Robin doesn’t seem to mind at all.

Summit Views

Views from the summit of Cadillac Mountain. Digital version. There will be 2-3 film shots someday in the distance future.

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I like this one
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This one was from the hotel restaurant where we had breakfast. The four mast sailing ship is the Margarette Todd. I wish I had a huge zoom lens, don’t you?

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The Difference Between Film and Digital Photography

So there we were on the summit of Cadillac Mountain, the highest elevation in the state of Maine, looking out across Bar Harbor toward the Atlantic Ocean. The view was spectacular.

I had my Nikon Z5 out and I was snapping away left and right. You get a photo, you get a photo, you get a photo, BAM BAM BAM photos of everything! Oh, some other visitor stepped in front of me while I was pressing the shutter? No problem! Just line up the shot and take it again. Life is good!

Then I switched to my Nikon FG-20, loaded with Fuji Superia Xtra. I carefully line up a shot. Check the light meter, check the aperture, check the shutter speed, focus and refocus repeatedly. Snap. Wind the film to the next frame. Line up a second shot. Check the light meter, check the aperture, check the shutter speed, focus and refocus repeatedly. Snap, but just as a depress the shutter release button some numbnutz walks in front of me. MUTHAFUCKA YOU JUST COST ME ONE FRAME OF FILM! Quietly fantasize about throwing said numbnutz off the side of the mountain. Then line up the shot again and…

Yeah, that’s the difference. It’s a subtle difference, but it’s there.