Wordful Wednesday - New Camera

I LOVE to take photos.

LOL, my husband says I think everything is a photo-op.

He is right.  ;)

I like to document lots of things.  Not to mention I had to take great shots of my products to use in my shop. 

I finally took the plunge in April of 2009 and bought a DSLR camera.  At the time, I decided to purchase a Sony one.  Not typically a popular choice in DSLR cameras.  Most people choose Nikon or Cannon when buying DSLR's.  I was upgrading from the film Minolta SLR I bought in 2001 after my son was born.  I absolutely LOVED my Minolta.  I also had an extra telephoto lens for it and didn't want to start from scratch.  What I found out was Sony purchased Minolta and most of Minolta's old glass lenses work on my camera.  That is the main reason I purchased my Sony.  I love my Sony camera.

PS- you can find some really old sweet Minolta glass lenses on ebay for my camera.  ;)

Anywho,  I bought myself a present last Friday and it arrived today.  I decided to upgrade my camera base.  Isn't it pretty?

 
With how much technology has changed, over the last few years, this Sony A65 is a HUGE difference over my Sony A200.  It is going to take some getting used to.  They have moved around alot of functions I use all the time.  Not to mention there are so many new neat things this camera can do.  Hello, I can take video's with my new camera now.  Super cool!

If you are interested in finding out more about the Sony A65 (which is actually a SLT (Single-Lens Translucent) not a DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) because the mirror does not snap up when taking a photo like in a DSLR) you can watch this awesome video made by B&H Photo.


Off to go take lots of pictures.  :)

PS- I do carry my camera with me all the time.  I use this small travel backpack camera bag made by tamrac. 

What kind of camera do you have?

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Take Me Back Tuesday

September 2001

When I was a baby I received this Raggedy Ann (made by knickerbocker) stuffed doll. I still have the same Raggedy Ann today. She is now my daughter's. She has her original dress, pinafore (with hankercheif) and bloomers.

My mother has a photo of me when I was a baby laughing at the Raggedy Ann doll (I will have to scan it in when I go to my parents house next time I am there). When My son was born I put that Raggedy Ann doll in his crib.He thought she was pretty funny, too.
This is one of my favorite pictures, but I wish I would have scanned it in at a higher DPI. Note to self...when scanning in photos change the 'standard' settings. These last 2 photos were taken with my Minolta 35mm right after I bought it.

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Take Me Back Tuesday

Thursday is my father's birthday. So for take me back Tuesday, I have decided to share these old photos. I get my love of photography from my father. Growing up my parents took lots of pictures of us. My father has an old 35mm Cannon camera. Most of the photos I have been sharing on Take Me Back Tuesday are photos he took when I was little. These photos are ones my parents took with that camera, when you had to actually buy black and white film and then find somewhere that would develop it.

1980

When my son was born almost 8yrs ago, my father let me use his camera while my son was in the hospital for 10days (another story for another day). I took some amazing pictures of my son in the hospital with it. Then my dad went home and took his camera with him. I was not satisfied with the photos I took of my son with my crappy camera. That is when my husband & I bought my minolta 35mm camera.


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YAY it came!!

Can I have a woot woot?!?!

This is a picture of one of my kitties, Lacy. This is first picture I took with my new Sony Alpha DSLR-A200. The reason I bought a Sony DSLR is because it my Minolta telephoto lens works on all Sony DSLR cameras. (Sony bought Minolta years ago and I didn't want to have to buy a new telephoto.) My camera came on Tuesday night and I went and got a Compact Flash card tonight. I bought the camera from http://www.buydig.com/. It was $100 less at http://www.buydig.com/ than everywhere else I had looked, plus free shipping and no tax.

(btw...2G Compact Flash Cards are on clearance at Target)