Current Lust Object

Nikon D70

1. I have been thinking New Digital Camera for a few months now, but I’d only been thinking low key, strictly consumer level. I was sold on the 10x Optical Zoom consumer cameras, I like the lens and the video capabilities of of the new crop of that class of camera. But just the other day I was having a look at some photos on Dooce when I noticed something that I had previously missed — the background was blurry!

2. I really can’t believe that I hadn’t noticed before, but the majority of digital photos I’d taken with consumer level cameras looked like that from a cheap point-and-shoot film camera, since it’s really a cheap point-and-shoot digital camera. That never bothered me because that was exactly why I bought a digital in the first place. I never thought about why it looked that way. Until this photo. What I had been missing was any reasonable control over the depth of field, since all consumer digitals have almost infinite depth of field (due to the smallness of the sensors and the short focal lengths required to project an image onto it). Which means all your photos turn out looking very flat. And cheap point-and-shoot like. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to realise.

3. So I’m gonna start saving for a Nikon D70. I’ve wanted a DSLR for a while now, but I’ve always put it off as Way Too Expensive. It’s still Way Too Expensive, but I also see a lot more value in it. Consumer cameras come and go, but a good quality SLR camera lasts as long as you’re prepared to look after it. While there is a question mark over the longevity of a digital compared to a film camera, I figure a good quality Nikon is bound to last longer than a consumer camera. If professionals can rely on these things day in day out I’m sure there isn’t anything I can do that’ll kill it. No, really.

4. Anyway, prices for DSLRs are bound to fall sooner or later, and I won’t be able to save enough to buy one until quite a bit later anyway, so all’s well. Eventually prices will fall to the amount I have saved, and Angels will Descend from Heaven and hand me my camera. I hear the road to hell is very pretty this time of year.

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