Starting Digital Photography

I was very wary of digital photography in the beginning but by 2004 I could see the way things were going and decided to dip my toe in the water so to speak. At the time I was shooting mainly on transparency film using a Canon EOS 600 and also using a Ricoh TF-900 compact from time to time for pocket-ability. The latter is the camera that I decided to replace as at the time I had no intention of totally giving up film so after a lot of thought I decided on a Canon PowerShot A80. It did all that the Ricoh could do and more, and was more pocketable. At the time I didn’t even have a computer, much less knew what you could do with one photographically speaking.

As things turned out I was so pleased with the results that I started getting with digital I became an almost overnight convert and a computer soon followed at first just for storing photographs as this was long before I learnt what you could do with various software that to me was still a black art but I went on to learn the basics such as cropping, adjusting exposure etcetera. So all the photographs taken in this first section are on the PowerShot and virtually untouched.