We wonder which camara's you guys use to make those nice pictures we'v seen here. Digital or not. Why did you buy it and when. We use a Epson Photo PC 3000Z. The colors are beautyful, makes razorsharp pictures, is easy to use and gives 3.3 million pixels. We have it two years now and it is still a joy to work with. Tell us about yours.

I have a Yashica Electro 35 camera, which WAS an aperture priority camera... that is until I decided to rip off the welded-on-lens and turn it into a pinhole camera...

also, who's "we"?

Who is 'we' ? ;) I shoot on Fuji Provia 100F and 400F (RHP III & RDP III), Fuji Velvia (RVP) and use a Nikon F4, and always shoot with sun hood on the lenses :P For more serious stuff I drag along a manfrotto tripod, cause it's unbelievable stable. (or in case of trouble a great weapon! ;) I use that film cause in my (humble) view Fuji pro film always gives me even results, unlike Kodak (it's probably me, not the film). I've used it for over a year or 1 and a half years, after having had an F100. It's just everything I want in a 35mm camera - it just always seems to do whatever you want it to and it really suits your needs, whatever you do. Just about limitless in the quality department....it's like the (almost) perfect tool, so the results just depends on what you do with it. It's also strong, virtually unbreakable and it looks really cool. ;) What I don't like is: - With the extra battery pack that I use, the body itself weighs a whopping 1.2 kg's. With most of my lenses it comes close to 1.5 kg's and if I attach the (manfrotto) tripod I recon it's somewhere around 2kg's that I have to drag around. So just imagine taking along an extra lens or two, 10-15 rolls and a bag that's also something like 0.3kg's or something. So much for hiking :) Btw, without kidding, an F4 is a great way to work out your arm muscles. Don't laugh, since the last year I can lift really heavy stuff that I couldn't even get off the ground a year ago, hehe ;) - The AF is slow. At races it just isn't okay. So I usually do everything by hand. If I had the fast AF of an F5 I would be able to make twice as many shots, just cause now stuff happens to quickly for me to focus (like on a street, or whatever). - It attracks dust. Hate that, too many little ridges, edges, etc. Not nice to clean it 100%. - Because of the double metal shutter curtains it makes a pretty loud noise. So NOT A CHANCE IN HELL that I'll ever make a great photo in some old church with people praying or something. One CLICK and people turn around with angry faces =(

"who is we?" Sorry for that. We is Willem and Madeleine who are working together under the name Hyperborea.

PS You got some beautiful stuff on your site....pretty sculptures! Guys check it out! =) Nice to see another dutchie here....van harte welkom :)

No need to say 'sorry' =) Guess we were both curious.....I'd almost say to Slynky 'Great minds think alike', but people here might just start to laugh ;)

I'm curious too!!
I've been bookmarking favorite sites on camera reviews & dogear marking my photo & graphics mags. trying to decide on a digital for Christmas. Meanwhile, I buy tons of film (or so it seems) to load in my automatic Pentax IQZoom 160 (on a budget) which I carry around everywhere. (Been using it now for about 3 yrs.) It does a good job but of course gives me little control.
I have to send the film off to a lab which does a lousey job of developing, but I'm able to download them from their site & correct them in PSP.
I have had experience with standard 35mm cameras long time ago (not gonna tell ya how long) as our yearbook photographer in hs & took 2 yrs. of photography in college & developing my own film.
Since getting a computer almost a year ago & finding Renderosity, my interest in photography & graphic art has been obsessively refreshed.
P.S. I love your cat shots Hyperborea!!! ;~D

Hi! You, that are We Hyperborea. I use a 35mm Nikon F80 with a Sigma 28-300 lens this covers most my focal length requirements. I take all my shots on Fujichrome Sensia 200 and scan into my PC for any post work. The one camera and lens lets me travel light and now the old eyes are going a bit the auto focus is fantastic. I like to use slide film, it gives a great image when projected and I can print or scan from it. Hope this helps Liked you stone work, thought about wood carving but never stone, is it a difficult material to work?

Hi,
"We wonder which camara's you guys use to make those nice pictures we'v seen here. Digital or not."

I use both.
I've a digital P&S (Minolta S404) that I bought for my job,
but I use it sometimes for my "artwork" as well.

If I shot for fun, art and the like I still prefer to use film.
Like Rork mostly Fuji Sensia or Provia slide film
and mostly my Nikon F4.

"Why did you buy it and when."

Besides of my retired Ricoh KR10, the F4 is the best Camera I ever owned,
It's versatile to no end, build like a tank, has every meaningful feature one could ask...
..well Rork allready told it. :-)

I was lucky enough to find an used one in mint condition some months ago.

cheers
Thomas

Wow! All of these Gallery people coming out of the woodwork into the Forum. Nice having you here. I mostly use an ancient (20 year) old Canon EOS650. Someday maybe digital, but right now film seems to work. Was it Willem or Madeleine who took the picture of the poor cat using the litter box?

A Minolta Dimage 7 for digital, and a Nikon N90S for film. Alpha recommended the N90s to me, and I love it....I have small hands though, so for me it's a big camera...

I use a Sony DSC F707 Digital. It has 5x optical zoom and 2 digital though I try never to use that. I will do the digital zoom in Photoshop. Digital is best for me most because as a Support manager for a graphics software company I already have all the software need to play. I also do 3D graphics in Bryce 4 & 5. That is my passion when sitting still. To be honest I don't think my photos are all that great but once I work woth them in PS6 I can generally get what I want out of it. My 3D work is on my site, www.zhounder.com Long before digital I took photography in high school and used a Pentax K1000. It fit my budget, cheap. Good starter camera. Over the next @$ years I lost touch with photography. I bought a small Cannon digital 2 years ago and I was of to the races. I grew out of that camera in under 2 years. I got a nice tax check this year and that made the Sony happen! Alot is coming back to me as I work. If I were to do film I couldn't afford to do what I want to. With digital I can do it alot cheaper. I haven't had to buy anything since I did the original purchase and I have taken over 1700 shots in 6-7 months. Magick Michael aka zhounder

Minolta Dimage 5 (+ filters and a 3600 HSD flash); a very versatile little camera. Slow AF, so action photography is out of the question. The 3.3 Mpix res. is enough to make beautiful A5 prints on my Epson photoprinter. And I never leave home without my IXUS V digital cam. My trusty little digital companion : a fast, reliable and overall very cute camera. I bought these cams 6 months ago and until now i have taken about 4000 shots (most of which are -eeeeeeeeeeeeeer- experimental ;-) I tend to play around with my pics in Photoshop 7 and Painter (for those "artzy" effects) and sometimes use them as refs for my 3D work (Rhino + Max5). But most of the time, I just limit my work in the "Digital Darkroom" to colour ajustment, a hint of sharpening and gentle retouching. (you know, removing that fat tourist dressed in yellow in the background of an otherwise beautiful pic)

Nice to read all your reactions. There were two questions who need to be answerd. Here we go.... "Liked you stone work, thought about wood carving but never stone, is it a difficult material to work?" Stone is very difficult to work with because it literialy Fights back. Especially when you first give it a try. You often hit your hands more than your chisel ;-) If you want to learn it, go find a sculptor in the area you live in and ask for some lessons. Woodcarving is also a good way to start. Although the material is very different, the work in three dimensions is the same. "Was it Willem or Madeleine who took the picture of the poor cat using the litter box? " Madeleine take's all the pictures and spend hours and hours with our two cats. Trying to get them as natural as possible. Willem does the Digital Darkroom things. Have a nice day all of you. Hyperborea ( Willem & Madeleine)

I use a digital Olympus 2100 UZ. I also own a Olympus 2100. Both of these are 2.1 mega pixels. I would love to get a higher rez but I find for most my photos 2.1 is enough. I also have a Minolta 500si SLR film camera. I haven't touched in over a year. ps - jealous of Spikes new D100!

I have 5 traditional "everyday" cameras (from a 16mm "spy" camera to a large plate 5x7 inch wood Gundlach) and one lonely (but overused) digital. They all have advantages and disadvantages over each other. I find I choose the camera based on what I want to shoot and say that day. Can't beat the 16mm for street photography, and can't beat a 5x7 for traditional B&W landscapes.

Hello everyone! (I'm late I know...) Hahah... my camera is put to shame... I refuse to talk about it. I might hurt its feelings. Hehehehe... :-) Welcome to the forum and enjoy! :-) (*

hi, and a belated welcome to you both, this season i will mainly be using a canon eos300 with 28-90 lens (looking to get another lens - i like mysnapzs' 28-300 idea - and a new tripod) also have a minolta xg1 and a mamiya dsx1000 both of which i haven't used for a while