GrauGeist's Photos

[GrauGeist]

Ok, I've had some time to go through the archives and have found some nice shots taken with my Kodak C143 PnS. As I've mentioned before, I always keep this little point-n-shoot in the glove box of my car (well, when it was an actual car, not a twisted mass of metal). You just never know what will pop up and you can't always have your DSLR sitting around, right?

So here we go, shots taken by my humble little Kodak!

f/10 - 1/800 sec. - 17mm - 6/27/2011

f/2.9 - 1/60 sec. - 6mm - 12/29/2011

f/4.6 - 1/15 sec. - 14mm - 1/7/2012

f/5.2 - 1/400 sec. - 17mm - 8/26/2012

 

[Wayne Little]

Wow....those are top shots Dave.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

I feel drama there, Dave

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Point and shoots are under rated. Excellent shots Dave!

 

[Airframes]

I agree, excellent shots.
I really wish I hadn't got rid of my Olympus SLRs and the little Point and Shoot compact - film can be so much more versatile, cmopared to digital - apart from the cost these days !

 

[GrauGeist]

Thanks, guys...I have several more, but these were some good examples of what an inexpensive point-n-shoot can do in Manual Mode

I agree, excellent shots.
I really wish I hadn't got rid of my Olympus SLRs and the little Point and Shoot compact - film can be so much more versatile, cmopared to digital - apart from the cost these days !

I do miss shooting in 35mm, Terry...it was a great challenge to compose the shot and then wait to see if it worked out or not! Of course, if the shot didn't come out, then all is lost unless you make the trip back to try and reshoot it (not a great backup plan if you were on the other side of the globe taking photos)

There is a convenience to DSLR photography as the results are instant and you have the option to shoot again (or several times) until you get the shot you wanted. And for many folks, the post-processing can also be a good tool to "salvage" a shot that didn't come out well enough.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely shots Dave!

Very true on the eases of DSLR photography. Still always handy to have a point and shoot around, although these days a decent mobile has a good enough camera to suffice as a point and shoot and you can still get some remarkably good shots out them.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Smart idea keeping a camera in the glove box Dave. Might do that with my next one.

 

[GrauGeist]

Smart idea keeping a camera in the glove box Dave. Might do that with my next one.

It's a habit I had because of the work I used to do.

For almost 10 years, I had a 1 megapixel Kodak DC3500 and always kept it in the glovebox. So if I needed a few shots of a project in the shop, the camera was always handy. Plus, if I was somewhere and something came up (sweet hotrod, awesome sunset, whatever) I have a camera on hand.

But, as with most things nowdays, it was wearing out and I selected a new PnS to replace it. That ended up being a Kodak C143 that has all sorts of stuff onboard and it's about half the size of the DC3500. I still haven't been able to replace my Scion that was wrecked almost 2 years ago, so my Kodak just sits on a table waiting for the day that it can go "home" to it's new glovebox!

 

[ontos]

Whoa, great shots Dave, calendar stuff my friend.

 

[Airframes]

I agree with you about the absolute convenience, and ease, of digital in general, and DSLRs in particular Dave, but there was just something satisfying about being able to quickly adjust a 35mm SLR to do what you wanted to do, rather than what the camera wanted, or told you to do, as with DSLRs, where rapid changes aren't always possible.
These days, my old 'point an shoot' has been replaced by the little Fuji 'bridge camera', which I still carry with the DSLRs, and use for nearly all 'general' stuff or 'happy snaps'. I've had it for just over six years now (my introduction to the digital world!), and can't fault it. But it's still a tad difficult to get used to having a Fuji product, after so long working for the 'big yellow box' !
But enough of my ramblings - back to the thread!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

I agree with you about the absolute convenience, and ease, of digital in general, and DSLRs in particular Dave, but there was just something satisfying about being able to quickly adjust a 35mm SLR to do what you wanted to do, rather than what the camera wanted, or told you to do, as with DSLRs, where rapid changes aren't always possible.
These days, my old 'point an shoot' has been replaced by the little Fuji 'bridge camera', which I still carry with the DSLRs, and use for nearly all 'general' stuff or 'happy snaps'. I've had it for just over six years now (my introduction to the digital world!), and can't fault it. But it's still a tad difficult to get used to having a Fuji product, after so long working for the 'big yellow box' !
But enough of my ramblings - back to the thread!

As you may know, Terry, a road from Nikon to Fuji.
Kodak and Nikon once collaborated developing DSLR cameras in the 1990s.
Nikon later collaborated with Fuji and Fuji produced FinePix S-series.
I have a S5000 and still feel Nikon quality. A nice camera.

 

[Airframes]

Yes, Kodak were way ahead with digital imaging even in the 1980's, more so in the graphic arts market areas (the pre-press and design markets) where I worked as a technical rep.
As with the extremely small video camera developed in the late 1970's/early 1980's, unbelievable almost for the time, they bumbled along without pushing forward - mainly due to perceived differences, in the USA, in the requirements of the American market, compared to the rest of the World. I'm afraid it was a case of not listening to the advice of the other Kodak companies across the World, or so it seemed, who's customer bases were using methods about ten years ahead of those used in the USA at that time. As a result, soon after I left the company at the end of 1991, as a result of redundancies forced on non- US Kodak companies, following a 'bit of a mess' in the 'States, the division I had worked for merged with, or was acquired by Polychrome, and a couple of years later, it ceased to exist !
From World leader to 'has been' in one swift step, all because of not wanting to be told what should be done !

 

[Shinpachi]

You are walking dictionary, Terry
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience!

 

[Airframes]

Kind of you to say so my friend ! But I think more a fount of useless information !

 

[Shinpachi]

You are welcome, Terry and Take apology, Dave as I thought this was the Photography and Equipments thread
Thanks!

 

[GrauGeist]

I agree, Terry. I honestly think that Kodak dropped the ball...

I grew up with Kodak cameras in my family, although Mom had a Poloroid land 220, my Aunt May had a top of the line Poloroid SX-70 and my Aunt Pam had an AGFA (post war vintage). My first camera was a "hand me down" Kodak baby brownie (dark brown bakelite body - 1930's vintage) that had been "handed down" to my Mom when she was a little girl. I also inherited my Great Grandmother's Kodak box camera that was 1910's vintage. Later on, I had a Kodak Hawkeye Instamatic X-35F that was a unique "dual mode" for standard photography and Macro photography.

Anyway, I thought I'd show off my "glovebox" cameras...all technically "point-n-shoot" types and always stowed away in the glovebox.

Left: Capital MX-II
35mm film type, 50mm
Late 80's through the late 90's

Center: Kodak DC3200
Digital; 1 megapixel, 39mm
Early 2000 through 2010

Right: Kodak C143
Digital; 12 Megapixels, 32mm
2010 to date.

 

[Airframes]

Great stuff Dave, and I was the same - grew up with Kodak all the way, with my first camera being the Bakelite Brownie 127, which took fantastic photos.
My older brother was already working for Kodak, and eventually, after the military, I joined too, moving through 'the system' from distribution to the regional Technical Sales Center, specialising in Professional and Audio-Visual and Industrial photography, before finding a niche in the development of new products for the printing and design industry, which lead to my position as a specialist rep, responsible for the introduction of computer controlled Process cameras, some as big as a small car. It was at this time that Eastman Kodak started to 'lose it', as they couldn't really grasp the changes needed (in the US market) to come up to the European and rest of the World standards in the print, design and industrial markets, which were roughly ten yeas ahead of the USA at that time.
And they certainly didn't want a Limey (me!) showing them how to simply solve the problems they'd brought upon themselves by not really understanding fully the technicalities of the equipment, and how to install and set-up correctly initially - problems which didn't exist anywhere else in the World !