Photography - Digital Camera Verses 35mm Conventional Camera

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Ever since I can remember I have always had an interest in cameras and photography, but with the advent of Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras replacing the old 35mm Single Lens Reflex Cameras this interest has been ever more focused.

I was like a child with a new toy once the penny really dropped about what the age of digital photography really meant.

The door was now well and truly wide open to a whole new world of photography. It meant that I could buy a digital camera based on the SLR variety for a little under three hundred pounds and equipped with an eight gigabyte memory card a battery and charger, I could then go out and take anything up to 1,942 pictures, view them on the 2.7inch LCD screen located on the back of the camera and keep the ones I like and simply delete those that I did not. All I have to do is take the memory card out of the camera and place it into my desktop computer and hey-presto I would be viewing the very pictures that I had only just taken.

Who Said That Technology Was a Bad Thing...

Gone are the days of buying a 36 exposure film opening up the back of the camera, pulling the film across the back and trying to make sure it lined up with the running teeth before shutting the back and winding the film on until it had reached the first exposure segment, take the picture and keep my fingers crossed that I had got everything right and the shot had come out as planned.

Once all 36 exposures had been taken I would then have to wind the film back or on later models that had auto-rewind, press a button. Carefully remove the film in low light conditions so as not to expose the film to excessive light that could spoil the film. Then take the film to the photography shop or chemist for development, which could take anything from a few days to a week.

This all took what seemed like a lifetime and not mentioning the inordinate amount of costs that could be involved. On top of that could have been extra prints or even enlargements. Photography used to be a very expensive hobby indeed.

So not only is the modern D.S.L.R version of photography much less complex, but more importantly, once you have the basic equipment the actual costs are virtually nil.