My first and last digital camera.
robertjerl wrote:
Uh! No, NASA used customized Hasselblad cameras. And to save weight they left a couple of bodies/lenses on the moon and brought back only the film backs and expended film.
I’m very sorry you guys I thought you were talking about a hazel blonde person. Getting old has many benefits, I can’t hear well and I don’t need to hear people burping, I can’t see well so I don’t have to look at the broken tile on the floor, and most of all I can sleep late because I don’t have to go to work. Stay well.
I'm just 94 and will be using my Nikon 7200 today at the retirement celebration of our minister. Several hundred pix will be in an album for him covering his last 14+ years as our pastor.
Ioannis wrote:
Why you may asked “....last camera “ I’m 82 years old and I don’t plan to replace the Canon 90D camera I’m about to received. I was working for a Time-share company around the middle of 1990 taking pictures of new buyers for promotional reasons. We used Nikon 35mm cameras, take photos of those people developing them and paste them on some colorful paper backgrounds. But since we needed time to process them many buyers didn’t come back the next day to get them. Out of the blue a company from Canada introduce as to a digital system about the year of 1998 , it was a Nikon camera N8008 on the top of a Kodak DCS 200 pack with a digital hard drive of about 2 MP sensor priced $ 10.000 it had a memory card the size of a cigarette pack and weight around 7 Lbs. Lens, printer, photo paper and a photo program that allow as to impress the buyers and the Time-shares company that paid an amount of money equal of the price of a car. This was my best job of my entire working life. Since then I bought my own first digital camera a Fugifilm 6900Z that is still inside the original box. I had several Canon 35mm and digital cameras since then. Few weeks ago I had posted asking some of your opinions about buying a good digital camera on this wonderful HG forum and the results help me to buy this Canon camera 90D with a Nano 18-135mm lens. I hope I didn’t bore you and I’m running to the front door because I think it’s the UPS delivery person.
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I think Canon and Nikon are very good cameras. I did not think Canon had a best idea of different batteries for a new item each production. I believe Nikon staying with common AA or AAA was a more wise move. Then, also the Nikkor lens on my Nikon F film camera is accepted on all my Nikon cameras. That is a winner for me. If you look at Kodak how they changed to a different film size with each new camera, 120-116-220-35-126 etc. I prefer a company that did not make everything I had become outdated or old school. Got to buy a new version or I will look bad to my associates. After all, its just photography. Some photographers can take a prize winning photo with a point and shoot. Just my thoughts. I really don't like battery cameras. I am 76 going on 126 unless something upsets my plans.
jerryc41 wrote:
You shouldn't need an argument.
When my wife was alive, I would meet the UPS guy at the end of the driveway. Actually, I've always done that. One Nikon looks like another, so when she saw me using a Nikon, it was just a Nikon. "Is that a new camera?" "Oh, I've had this for a while." She would just smile. She knew what was going on, but as long as there was food on the table and gas in cars, she didn't care what I bought. Still, she had to pretend that she was keeping tabs on me.
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Oh dear - that is what is happening at my house! Some experiences are almost universal, like the Dilbert comic strip.
robertjerl wrote:
Uh! No, NASA used customized Hasselblad cameras. And to save weight they left a couple of bodies/lenses on the moon and brought back only the film backs and expended film.
The first person to get there and recover those cameras will get a nice price on eBay!
[quote=Ioannis]Why you may asked “....last camera “ I’m 82 years old and I don’t plan to replace the Canon 90D camera I’m about to received.
I bought a Canon 5Dc a couple of years ago, moving to full frame from my 40d. That'll be my last digital camera as I'm 89 and while my health is OK, my days are beginning to "dwindle down to a precious few." I print mostly 8x10s so 12 MP are enough for me. If I think that I'll want something bigger, I still have my Nikon 35mm. I have a 13x19 color print of the beach at Sonoma from a high point that is as perfect a shot as I'll ever make. So I believe that I'm covered! Harry
Richard Engelmann wrote:
The first person to get there and recover those cameras will get a nice price on eBay!
Too late, Quark the Ferengi from Deep Space Nine sent one of his minions to scrounge up all the gear and equipment left and even stole the footprints by spraying them with plastic and then cutting and lifting them so they can be sold also. They left cheap plastic imitations of the lander modules to fool astronomers looking at the moon.
Ioannis wrote:
Why you may asked “....last camera “ I’m 82 years old and I don’t plan to replace the Canon 90D camera I’m about to received. I was working for a Time-share company around the middle of 1990 taking pictures of new buyers for promotional reasons. We used Nikon 35mm cameras, take photos of those people developing them and paste them on some colorful paper backgrounds. But since we needed time to process them many buyers didn’t come back the next day to get them. Out of the blue a company from Canada introduce as to a digital system about the year of 1998 , it was a Nikon camera N8008 on the top of a Kodak DCS 200 pack with a digital hard drive of about 2 MP sensor priced $ 10.000 it had a memory card the size of a cigarette pack and weight around 7 Lbs. Lens, printer, photo paper and a photo program that allow as to impress the buyers and the Time-shares company that paid an amount of money equal of the price of a car. This was my best job of my entire working life. Since then I bought my own first digital camera a Fugifilm 6900Z that is still inside the original box. I had several Canon 35mm and digital cameras since then. Few weeks ago I had posted asking some of your opinions about buying a good digital camera on this wonderful HG forum and the results help me to buy this Canon camera 90D with a Nano 18-135mm lens. I hope I didn’t bore you and I’m running to the front door because I think it’s the UPS delivery person.
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Now THIS is a Brown Truck story I can read every day! enjoy the 90D Ioannis, you picked a good one.
jerryc41 wrote:
You shouldn't need an argument.
When my wife was alive, I would meet the UPS guy at the end of the driveway. Actually, I've always done that. One Nikon looks like another, so when she saw me using a Nikon, it was just a Nikon. "Is that a new camera?" "Oh, I've had this for a while." She would just smile. She knew what was going on, but as long as there was food on the table and gas in cars, she didn't care what I bought. Still, she had to pretend that she was keeping tabs on me.
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Pretend?????? happy is as happy does.
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Canons may be the better camera, but they are not the best. That has not yet been manufactured. But, with the exception of skin tones, Canons do make pleasing pictures.
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