Comments by Sonny E.
On the police car photos...
its true, its funny but sad, ironically. i would bet my last peso that the tires and accessories of that toyota corolla police car ended up with some pulis patula's owner-jeep.
And remember that plate number. It may hit the headlines one day as those of a get away vehicle on some abductions or bank robberies.
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manong vic,
Quite incidentally, I share your passion for what you termed “old fashioned photography” having worked part-time as photographer and dark-room man during college. There is no doubt that the current advances in technology have revolutionized “image processing” and had brought it several steps forward. Boon to many and bane to some, the trend has brought forth the demise of such industry giants as Konica, Fuji and the like which failed or refuse to retool but had also seen the birth of next generation digital companies.
Consigned to the dustbin of history are photography terms such as “dark rooms”, emulsion-coated photopaper, celluloid films, enlargers, developers, fixers, etc. What I am most sad about is the abstraction of the technical process – from something I could follow and understand as the chemical effect of light on some photo-sensitive substances, I am now lost on how light intensity is converted into bits and bytes of numerical data. While then I could understand how shutter speed and lens opening could be adjusted and combined for a given lighting condition, now the digicam does it all with a built-in sensor. While it simplified life for many, the digi-cam also eliminated some creative tricks such as time-exposure photography, multiple–exposures and other tricks easily done with my old Minolta SLR. Then, I could adjust the lens settings and filters so I could have a crisp, sharp image or create a subdued, dreamy photograph. Now, the autofocus would paint a uniform mood regardless of theme or subject. Of course I know that everything is doable now, it’s just a matter of post processing the digital images with photoshop or similar software but that requires a completely different set of skills.
Fact that I am complaining is probably that I have grown old and passé. :=) Well, as they say, we simply have to adopt or face the fate of the dinosaurs.
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"Fact that I am complaining is probably that I have grown old and passé. :=) "
If you are already old, then what am I?...:))
I keep on going, that's what I do now a days..More books to read, more stories to write, more dishes to wash..:) Strike out the last phrase!
Above is the Nikon FE I was telling you about. Recently I saw a zoom lens ( up to 300mm ) selling for a cheap price, so I fitted it..I did some test shots. The first ones were screwed up because I used the biggest lens opening..It was my first time to use a zoom lens..So my first shots were over exposed...When I read the info sheet later, I found that I must use the smallest opening ( F/22)
The family picture in the Memory Box was shot by Manong Lilo Sampaga, your kinsman. One time I also used his darkroom ( in the old Sampaga Studio ) to prints some B&W photos. Instead of using a bulb to expose the image from a negative into the paper, he used sunlight coming through a frosted window inside his darkroom. There was a time, when there was no electricity yet in Asingan. I admired how the trade pioneers in Asingan tried to make the most of what is available to them. To develop film, they used total darkness of the darkroom..The chemicals used for the processes were also bad for the lungs.
But they survived, and we will survive too and future generations will also talk about us and our cyber writings some years from now!---#
----vic
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