The pre-digital era

 

These are a few of my scanned photos from before 1999, taken with a Minolta Dynax 500si. Somehow I feel like I took better photos then - when, with a non-digital SLR, I was forced to learn about using the correct camera settings the hard way... the wasteful way. I can still remember the impatience with which I'd take my film to get developed... sometimes going for one-hour processing on impulse... anxious to see how my photos would turn out. In one roll of flim I'd only get a few good - decent - ones, and it was demoralising to look at the number of prints I was forced to discard. My mom'd go tsk-tsking and say that I'm taking up a far too expensive hobby for a 13-year-old. I'd pick my subjects with the greatest care... only when I was confident that the conditions were right would I take a shot. But then - I managed to see more. Or perhaps, there was more to see... even in the space of a few years, I have a feel that some animals are just becoming more uncommon or elusive.

Nowadays I don't care much... having a digital is way too convenient... I shoot whatever and whenever. And I'm not sure if it's a good thing?

posted by Husky @ 11/27/2005 01:35:00 PM  |