Life Observed

A tech post today: How digits have progressed: Here are three images taken since 2003 which illustrate how digital cameras finally overtook film in almost all departments: Oh dear. My first two megapixel camera. More art than science. It was a slow start, and even three megapixels really didn't do the business in 2004. This next one is from an early Fuji digital camera, not a compact, but a reasonably serious item. Perhaps I should have waited another year before jumping into digits. Ah well. Its 2004, and now we have 8Mp and a much better lens. A very reasonable effort. Well done Olympus. Forward to 2008 and I made the jump to a digital SLR with interchangeable lenses (and a mild increase to 10Mpixels). This put me back where I was six years before with the last of my Nikon film cameras. Now at last the results are rewarding and worthwhile. Finally 2015. Here we have a 16Mpixel camera that is smaller than many of the above that can be...

Here is one of my favourite subjects: A repeated pattern of everyday objects. I took a picture very like this on cheap print film with my old FED50 some years before. That was then, this is now. Film is dead and I was in the brave new Digital World when this picture caught my eye. I had to have another go at it. By this time (2003) I had already owned one digital camera , but the less said about that the better... This second digital camera, a Fuji S602, was a distinct improvement. It offered three whole megapixels, a half decent lens and proper mode controls with Aperture priority. All the inconvenience of film was behind me. Instant results. Excellent. Surely I would be happy now...