When I look around at some of the photos i would really like to know what kind of camera (Digital or Film) took the picture. Like what brand name and the name of your camera. Ex. Nikon-10.2MP Digital SLR. i think it would be cool to have a box to fill in when you upload an image.
Older pics in my gallery were taken with an Olympus point and shoot. All pics after December 2007 are with my Canon PowerShot S5IS. Saving up those pennies for a DSLR! :) Hmm...gonna need A LOT of pennies!
Alas, the poor starving college student such as myself is stuck with a cheapo HP Photosmart E327, the $99 Walmart special from 2 years ago. :) Actually, for being a little digital camera with only 5 mp, it takes pretty good shots. My only trouble is outdoor-night shots.
I have been using up till now a Sony Cybershot smart zoom 4.1 MP camera, but just this week have purchased a Kodak easyshare Z1275 with 5x optical zoom and 12mp. I was reasonably happy with my Sony, but wanted a sharper image and chose a higher pixel camera to see if that made any difference. New to this and so still feeling my way around! I hope to get a DSLR eventually as I get more experienced.
My older photos were taken with a Minolta Dimage A1, then a A2.
I bought a second hand Nikon D70 with a fabulous (new) 18/200 Nkkor zoom lens. Now, I'm using a 10 MP Nikon D80.
My macros are taken with a Sigma 150 mm lens.
Rebecca: for me, the big difference between DSLR and others is not the result of the photo itself, but the quality of the viewfinder and the reactivity.
Hiya Pierre. True enough about the photo quality, but what I'm really wanting is the ability to switch out my lens! :) Right now I'm limited to a teleconverter and a macro lens addition using an adapter tube.
Also, it seems a fixed lens camera has a varying aperture value from what I've read. According to Bryan Peterson's book "Understanding Exposure", he says that a fixed lens camera is hopelessly plagued with rendering a tremendous depth of field, and an aperture of f/2.8 on a fixed lens is equivalent to an aperture of f/11 on an SLR! Eeps :)
I have been using (and learning as I go) a Canon Rebel XTi, 10+mp. I would like to eventually get a telephoto lens but right now I am using a 17-85 IS from Canon.
"My equipment consists of: a Canon Rebel XTi 10.1 megapixel, the 18-55mm kit lens that came with it, a Tamron 70-300 telephoto and two recent additions; a 60mm macro lens and a 10-18mm wide angle lens that I have yet to fully utilize. My "stealth" camera is a Sony SuperShot 8.1 megapixel with a Zeiss lens. Of course I have various and sundry tools to help me on this photographic journey, not the least of which is my post processing buddy, Photoshop CS3. I shoot all of my Canon shots in RAW and rather than trust the JPEG that comes out of the camera, I enjoy the flexibility that PS provides as a digital darkroom."
I think that about covers it.
:)PJ
PS I'm wondering if this whole thread would be better served under the Artistic Discussion>photography section of the discussion board festivities?
We don’t make art to show someone what something looks like. All this requires is eyes (or a lens). Art is supposed to have meaning, emotion, power, or magic. Alan & Mario "FourThirds"
We have a 'Signature' (in our profile) that gets posted at the end of every post we make. I would think that a 'Camera model' in our profile, that would be automatically added to our 'Posting text' (even if nothing gets posted) would be a good/useful new feature! :o)
And if this idea should ever be put into effect... a note regarding this could be sent to the MEMBER as a personal message keyed on the 'Camera model' being blank. This coding might eventually not be needed and thus could be removed.
Edited: I have pictures taken by a Canon G2 in the past and now use a Canon SD950 IS. Like JEdMc91's dad, I gave my old camera to my son.
I use a Sony Alpha A300 I am trying to learn with along with the stock 18-70 lens, and a Sigma 70-300 lens I picked up used. So far I have been able to wrestle the thing to get a couple of good photos out of it. This is the first digital camera I have ever owned, the rest of my equipment is 35mm.
I've got a Nikon D70s with a 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 AF-S DX that came with the body and a 70-300mm f/4-5.6G. Currently drooling over the AF-S Micro NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8D but the thousand dollars it costs is bit out of my range.
* Owing to the deterioration in my hands, I find that I cannot comment as much as I should..But please know...I do look at all your posts!..and will leave my 'moniker' >OB< when I do so!...Thank you all *
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I know this can depend upon how a My Computer window is set-up or on what software is installed so I would have to look at another computer that is set-up differently from this one...
BUT I can see the name of the camera that took the picture just by hovering my mouse over it and/or with Win XP, go into My Computer, go to a folder with pictures, right-click on the area to the right of Name Size Type Date Modified... click More then select the info you wish to have displayed. Repeat process for each folder containing pics.
If more help is required with this... let me know! :o)
Edit: There are indeed some photos that don't have that info... they must be coming from cameras (older?) that don't pot that info into the saved file or certain editors remove that info.
Anyway... the common piece of advice is that the camera may be nice but it is the lens that makes the picture!