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6Jul/100

How to shoot good digital color photography?

I know I didn't word that as I should have but really i'm curious, how do you shoot good digital color photos? I mean I can make just about any photo look better just by putting it in black and white, which kind of bothers me. Anyone have any tips, suggestions, etc?

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6Jun/101

Two new “electronic” friends – computer + camera

I got myself two you friends yesterday. Neither of which I really expected to be getting so soon. The first just so happens to be the very computer that I am typing from this very moment. Since I'm going off to the land of college next year I got a new laptop.

It is a macbook pro 15" with their new i7 processor. one of the little plugins on the side of this beautiful computer came in handy with the other little friend I got yesterday.

This guy is on the other end of the spectrum, it's really small. The unnescessarily large box that it was mailed to me in pointed out how small it really is. I got my very first Digital Harinezumi 2++. I don't really know what to think of it in all honesty, seeing as i've never seen firsthand any of the previous versions but I doubt I really have anything I can truly complain about. I've never before owned such a small camera that has a live preview. The way these two friends work well together is this, Since the Hari doesn't have any form of USB connection it only has the SD adapter, luckily for me, my new computer has an SD slot on the side and now i can easily just open the device from my desktop and drag the images wherever I want.

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6Apr/100

Manual lenses

I've never really been all that great when I've had to manually focus my AF lenses for whatever reason. The problem is mainly my sensitivity to not really knowing if what my eye is seeing is what I want. I wear glasses and have yet to figure out if i have my camera's diopter set properly for my eyes.

The point of all that is just to share with you something I've been trying out. Manual lenses, i really have no clue how many people use old lenses with adapters and such, but I personally like it. I like having a new challenge, working with new apertures, new focal lengths and new minimum focusing distances. Three out of the four lenses i have so far are prime lenses (fixed focal length, i don't know which is proper).

I have a 50mm f/1.7 (i like that little extra i'm going to see if i can get some wider lenses at 1.8 or less)

I have a 35mm f/2.8 (haven't used it much, really just started using them last week)

I also have a 135mm f/2.8 (i spent some time working with it I'm not used to long lenses that are not zooms having a minimum focusing distance of 2m was interesting to say the least but I liked it.)

the last lens of this type (m42 originally for a Yashica film SLR, which I have) is a 85~205mm f/3.8 zoom lens.

my eyes aren't great neither is my skills with lighting so bear with me on the sharpness and lighting of the photos more the focus though.