2a. Equipment and Software

Here is the list of mostly old, mostly low-to-medium priced gear that I use for photography and digital images.

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This is my old, trusty camera. A 35 mm film camera like this one captures the equivalent of about 7 megapixels of resolution, so this camera can take higher-quality pictures than the 3 megapixel digicam below. I also have 3x more zoom in my filmcam lens set than I do in the digicam, so the filmcam gives me more power to zoom in on exactly the subject that I want in the picture. This filmcam is pretty great for landscape photography.

This is my new camera. I'm still exploring its strengths and limitations. The autofocus is great for moving subjects. I can take dozens of great digicam pictures in the time it would otherwise take to fiddle with lenses and tripod just to get the filmcam set up. Now that I have the digicam I'll probably try more photos of moving subjects and get a lot of photos that I would have missed in the past.

3. (Mom's camera)
FujiFilm DL-270 Zoom (film camera)
35-70 mm zoom, autofocus

Mom gets some pretty good pictures with this simple little point-and-shoot camera.

This does a great job of keeping the camera steady when using the big telephoto lens.

6. Epson Stylus Color 740 inkjet printer
(1440x720 dpi)

7. HP ScanJet 3500c Scanner
(1200 dpi, 48-bit color, USB2)

An old computer is OK, but put in lots of RAM and lots of hard drive space. I'm also very careful to keep the hard drive defragmented and to turn off unnecessary background functions.

 

 

 

8. Que! USB CD-RW (CD burner)

Digital imaging work generates loads of files on your computer. Homemade CD-ROMs are a great way to preserve backup copies of your images, to clean up space on your hard drive for new images, and to distribute copies of images to others.

10. Adobe Photoshop Elements software

11. Macromedia Fireworks software