I'm a semi-pro photographer: pro because I get paid for my pictures, and semi- because I don't get paid enough. I decided to join this forum because a friend told me I should--and because I'm gullible.
After 25 years or so as a photographer, I've chewed up a lot of cameras and gear. Survivors include my Pentax ME Super, Pentax 6X7, Holga 120GN, Fuji Finepix S5200, Olympus SP-310 with a broken processor, Nikon D40X and an array of lenses from M42 Helios thingies to very fine AF Sigma and Zeiss ZA lenses and other such herbs and spices. You might suppose I'm not loyal to any camera/gear, preferring to use whatever works and is at hand, and you would be correct.
I'm challenging myself to master this new SD14 (since I couldn't wait another month for the SD15). I've long been working with infrared film EIR and HIE, and never really liked the digital infrared of my Nikon or Finepix, so why not waste another $1K on a new setup? I thought to myself.
So far...I'm sticking with it. The Sigma Photo Pro software drives me nuts with its sloth. The SD14 manual drives me nuts in general. I can't really get good blacks out of the camera yet. Using my manual lenses with the camera remains tedious and filled with metering problems. I'm still working on a decent approach to false color infrared work on my Macintosh. So I'm relying upon research from others on the web and a lot of luck.
Still, the camera feels like it belongs in my hands, and it increases my street cred among select nerds, so it can't be all bad.
Be seeing you...
--Omar
After 25 years or so as a photographer, I've chewed up a lot of cameras and gear. Survivors include my Pentax ME Super, Pentax 6X7, Holga 120GN, Fuji Finepix S5200, Olympus SP-310 with a broken processor, Nikon D40X and an array of lenses from M42 Helios thingies to very fine AF Sigma and Zeiss ZA lenses and other such herbs and spices. You might suppose I'm not loyal to any camera/gear, preferring to use whatever works and is at hand, and you would be correct.
I'm challenging myself to master this new SD14 (since I couldn't wait another month for the SD15). I've long been working with infrared film EIR and HIE, and never really liked the digital infrared of my Nikon or Finepix, so why not waste another $1K on a new setup? I thought to myself.
So far...I'm sticking with it. The Sigma Photo Pro software drives me nuts with its sloth. The SD14 manual drives me nuts in general. I can't really get good blacks out of the camera yet. Using my manual lenses with the camera remains tedious and filled with metering problems. I'm still working on a decent approach to false color infrared work on my Macintosh. So I'm relying upon research from others on the web and a lot of luck.
Still, the camera feels like it belongs in my hands, and it increases my street cred among select nerds, so it can't be all bad.
Be seeing you...
--Omar
