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Digital Photography, Is It Right For You?
By Jeff Colburn, Fri Dec 9th
Lately, people have been asking me the same question over andover, "Should I buy a digital camera?" And for everyone thatasks, I have the perfect answer. Maybe. There are many factors that go into the decision about goingdigital, not the least being whether you are a professional oramateur photographer. You need to ask yourself how you will useyour photographs. Will they be for your website, magazinearticles, stock agencies, advertising or something else? Youthen have to do some research and see what each of these marketsasks for. Stock agencies love digital, as do many ad agencies,but most magazines want slides. Do you want to stay with film? Great. Film still gives betterimage quality than digital. However, in a year or two digitalwill probably rival film. You also need to consider that filmmanufacturers are reducing the range of film they produce. I wasamazed when a few months ago the owner of my local camera storetold me that Kodak is going to discontinue Kodachrome 25 soon,and within two years discontinue Kodachrome 64 and 200. Filmmanufacturers know that eventually digital will take over, andthey don't want to be caught flatfooted. So they're making fewertypes of film, and starting to manufacture digital camera. You also need to consider the costs of going digital. Aprofessional digital camera or camera back, will cost between$5,000 and $15,000. These prices are dropping quickly, but theyare still high. There's also the need for a computer (like a MacG4 at $2,500), PhotoShop 7 ($600), high end printer (at least$500), maybe a scanner ($500 and up) and possible external datastorage devices. This along with time spent manipulating eachimage in a computer, after you learn to use the computer andsoftware, archiving each image on several sets of CD's so youcan store at least one set offsite. An off-site set protectsyour images from being lost due to flood, fire, theft or someother catastrophe. As you can see, digital will eat up lots oftime and money. One way to get into digital, but save some money, is to go thehybrid route. Shoot with film,
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make some great prints then scanthem into a computer using a flatbed or drum scanner. You canalso scan negatives and prints directly. Some photo labs caneven do the scanning for you. Many professional photographers gothis route to have the best of both worlds. They can use theirexisting film cameras, while having digital images. Still not sure which way to go? You could buy a nice digitalcamera, with at least 3.1 megapixels, for under $1,000 and giveit a try. You can even buy a printer that connects directly tothe camera, so you don't need a computer. If you do decide to buy digital cameras, ask the same questionsyou would for film cameras. What lenses, shutter speeds, ISO'sand flash sync speed do you need? What subjects will you shoot,in what kind of lighting and how portable does it need to be? Doyou need to end up with prints, digital images or slides? Then talk to photographers that you know, or that you can findon newsgroups, and see if they use the camera you're looking at,and what they think of it. If you live in a large city, you canprobably rent the camera you want, and if you decide to buy ityou may even be able to apply your rental fees toward thepurchase price. So don't jump on the digital bandwagon just because everyoneelse seems to be doing it. A camera is a tool. Select the propertool to meet your needs. You will be happier and your pictureswill look better. Want to know what some of the pros are using for digital? Checkthis out. Cameras Canon EOS-ID and D30 Nikon DI Computers Macintosh PowerBook G3 and G4 Sony Vaio PC Scanners Agfa DuoScan and Arcus 2 Flextight Precision II ImaconPrecision II Nikon Coolscan 8000 Scanview Scanmate 11000 drumscanner UMAX PowerLook 1100 with transparency attachment Printers Epson 1160, 1270, 1280, 5500 and 10000 Software Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and 7.0
About the author:Jeff Colburn's books, "The Writer's Dictionary Of ScienceFiction, Fantasy, Horror and Mythology" and "The YoungestNinja," can be purchased from his site, The Creative Cauldron atwww.CreativeCauldron.com. The Creative Cauldron is a site filledwith information for writers, photographers, artists and othercreative people.
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