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Caiphana:
I've got a Pentax. Great cameras. They basically invented the SLR.

Anyway... my biggest suggestion would be to take a gander at your local community college and take a class on photography. They should have a course on just SLRs, and they've probably even got a darkroom and will teach you how to develop, enlarge, and print your own photos. This is a very important part in learning how to take pictures. Darkroom manipulation is probably the sexiest thing in the world. They'll likely start you off with black and white film, which is good training for learning to look at the light and shadow. You get to worry about color later. It's fun to see how colored filters change your finished product with B&W film.

Filters are probably the coolest thing about real cameras as opposed to digital. Yeah, you can get similar effects with photoshop or with certain settings on the digital... but nothing compares to doing it yourself manually. My favorite filter is a "sparkle filter." I can't remember if that's what it's actually called, but it's great for shooting at night, because it throws a sparkle around every point of light. Super cool.

If you've got specific questions, I can probably answer them, but I'd really suggest taking a class. Your teacher will help you learn your camera.

Ozzman:
Here at my HS, we HAD one of those photography classes, but the stupid freaking district closed down the darkroom aspect of it...the chemicals are dangerous...they think we're gonna drink the shit or something. 

Anyway, we were using SLR's (had to provide our own), and I found that it's still relatively easy to use when you know what you want. 

(Now the school's fighting the district on reopening the class..and the class reverted to a Color/Composition class with outsourced developing/printing.  Next year it'll probably be a solid digital...but the district gets to pay out the ass..my teacher is gonna drill 'em and tell 'em she needs all this fancy computer shit.  :evil:   )

Caiphana:
Hah, chemicals are dangerous.

More like: "We know students were having sex in the darkroom."

IronOxide:

--- Quote from: Ozzman on 09 Jan 2008, 10:39 ---Here at my HS, we HAD one of those photography classes, but the stupid freaking district closed down the darkroom aspect of it...the chemicals are dangerous...they think we're gonna drink the shit or something. 

--- End quote ---

Does your district still offer Chemistry as a subject of study? If so, then that's kind of silly.

Ozzman:
Dude...it would have been so easy to do so.
=D

hm..
I think you might be on to something there.




and yeah

Chem is offered at every school here.
Never thought of that...I may have to point that out

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