Things you are happy you have?
Mar 20, 2021 09:25:54 #
After a brush with cancer last year I’m glad I have my health. Everything else pales in comparison.
Mar 20, 2021 09:30:11 #
Leitz
Loc: Solms
wide2tele wrote:
I really should've added "photography" as the first word in the title I guess. It is in the question I asked in my opening post.
It was clear to those who understand what they read.
Mar 20, 2021 09:33:13 #
Leitz wrote:
It was clear to those who understand what they read.
Was to me. Especially with the reference in his example being to photography.
Mar 20, 2021 09:33:28 #
Longshadow wrote:
I thought the question was in reference to photography, not life in general.
For some, it’s hard to separate the two!
Dave
Mar 20, 2021 09:33:48 #
Uuglypher wrote:
For some, it’s hard to separate the two!
Dave
Dave
Mar 20, 2021 09:34:01 #
I had 2 boxes full of photography advertisements, brochures, manuals for cameras; all from the 60's and '70's. In a fit of "Clean out the cellar!" madness, I threw out the biggest of the two boxes. Glad I kept the one, wish I still had the other, (could have at least sold them on e-bay.)
Mar 20, 2021 09:51:01 #
wide2tele wrote:
I'm currently sorting through my photography relat... (show quote)
My first Nikon EM 50 film camera , old photos, my D7500 and lenses
Mar 20, 2021 09:56:37 #
Tomcat5133
Loc: Gladwyne PA
I was just thinking my grandson we had a small birthday party monday for his 16th birthday at our place.
No one brought a camera (what is a camera) I am not a fan of iPhone shots. Good in pinch.
I ran upstairs and grabbed my 3rd RX100 mark 4 with a Sony handle with buttons to shoot.
Shot the cake walk and my grandson who is autistic and has made progress a significant birthday.
Friends and relatives sent video messages for him which I recorded him watching on the iPhone.
I edited a 2 minute video from this footage. A wonderful dinner and messages from folks
who love him and who couldn't come because of Covid.
Years ago i read an article about great products of the year. The RX100 was one and I bought it.
Couldn't believe how good it was. I now have the 4th with 4k 1.8 zoom lens viewfinder etc.
This camera's IQ is so good and fits in the palm of your hand. Have shot video with it and used
to integrate with my 10 bit camcorder in editing. A magnificent product.
No one brought a camera (what is a camera) I am not a fan of iPhone shots. Good in pinch.
I ran upstairs and grabbed my 3rd RX100 mark 4 with a Sony handle with buttons to shoot.
Shot the cake walk and my grandson who is autistic and has made progress a significant birthday.
Friends and relatives sent video messages for him which I recorded him watching on the iPhone.
I edited a 2 minute video from this footage. A wonderful dinner and messages from folks
who love him and who couldn't come because of Covid.
Years ago i read an article about great products of the year. The RX100 was one and I bought it.
Couldn't believe how good it was. I now have the 4th with 4k 1.8 zoom lens viewfinder etc.
This camera's IQ is so good and fits in the palm of your hand. Have shot video with it and used
to integrate with my 10 bit camcorder in editing. A magnificent product.
Mar 20, 2021 10:15:13 #
Gasman57 wrote:
My health. Everything else is a distant second and not important.
Amen
Mar 20, 2021 10:25:05 #
wide2tele wrote:
I'm currently sorting through my photography relat... (show quote)
I am happy to have my health so I could get up every day and go out and take photos no matter what gear I have. I am 73 and still going strong with hiking the mountains of AZ. or hiking through the desert or N.P. That's what I am thankful for.
Mar 20, 2021 10:34:07 #
JoAnneK01 wrote:
Back in the early 70's I purchased the Time/Life series on photography. Two years ago I gave it to our local high school for the kids. The photography/video/media teacher was extremely happy to receive it. Little did I know that my granddaughter would be one of the first students to complete studying these books. She, along with several other students, have nreceived several accolades on their photos. Couldn't be happier with the results.
What a great story.
Mar 20, 2021 10:44:52 #
As for hardware, I'm glad I kept my Beseler Dual-Mode Deluxe slide copier with El Nikkor enlarging lenses. I had used it with bulk rolls of Kodak slide duplicating film to copy all of my original Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides so the originals wouldn't be damaged in the many slide shows I did. I had thought it might become antiquated and useless, as modifying images and making duplicates can be done with a mouse click in digital. Instead, it has taken on a new life as a way to digitize all of my old slides using my D750 on the duplicator, and even the negatives with the D750 in "negative" mode; making negatives of negatives=positives!
Mar 20, 2021 10:57:07 #
OwlHarbor
Loc: Pacific North West USA
An electronic format book I just bought Think Again: The Power of Knowing What you Don't know by Adam Grant. It so far is an amazing look at all of it including photography. Many of the discussions on this site are examples of what we know and don't know. I bought it off of Amazon and read the reviews including the one stars, those reviewers may have read the first several pages and stopped reading because it challenged their beliefs. The other reviews are fives. Photographers for the most part are a curious bunch who love the experience. I think many will enjoy this 2021 book because it provides information that is not commonly accepted by many yet we all know parts of it.
Mar 20, 2021 11:03:09 #
Mar 20, 2021 11:24:45 #
My father was a doctor, a Major in the Army, stationed for two years in the Aleutian Islands during WWII. On one of his runs to the base hospital in Yakama, Washington, he bought a Kodak Medalist camera and all the gear to go with it. I inherited it and I keep it on display in a cabinet with other family items. Every time I look at it, I think of him and smile. I also have many of the photographs of that bleak Alaskan landscape and the Quonset huts and the pre-fab buildings that made up that isolated hospital, built to accept casualties that might come from an invasion across the Bering Straits. My father took great care of his "toys" so I take great care of this camera. (I also have his stethoscope!)
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