Now everyone started off with digital cameras and my family started out using Sony. I became a Sony cybershot fan for a while even though the quality tended to suck with very high noise indoors without flash. My first camera that I could actually call my own to use anywhere and take pictures... the famous... Sony Cybershot W1
This camera went everywhere with me. College. Clubbing. Travelling. The most memorable picture I have with this camera:
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| From my fav photos |
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| From my fav photos |
Once i finished college and finally got a job, i decided to take the plunge with the help of my friends Scotto / Kevin / and Trev and get myself a handy dandy DSLR and join the bunch. I remember debating between Nikon / Canon for the longest time. Scotto and Kevin had Nikons and Treiber had Canon. I told myself I will let the asian in me decide. The first deal to pop up on slickdeals is the one I will buy.
Lo and Behold, the Canon Rebel XT was on sale and that's what I got:
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| From Pics of Me |
With this camera and this lens, there were just way too many pictures to choose from, for a year or two my album is littered with pictures using the Canon Rebel XT with 18-55mm stock lens.
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| From my fav photos |
I told myself once I got a DSLR that I would be done. My photography is complete. Little did I know the ginormous (and expensive) iceberg lurking beneath the waters. My first lens to buy outside of my stock lens was the mucho awesomo, yet expensivo Canon 50mm f/1.4 Prime Lens
man that lens was so difficult to work with. the focal range was really small and when you set it to f/1.4 the "bokeh" was really really strong.
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| From my fav photos |
but I would also be able to take some amazing pictures with the lens too....
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| From my fav photos |
Next on the evolutionary scale was taking my first plunge into Image Stabilization. I found I was having difficulty taking pictures indoors without the use of flash other than needing my 50mm f/1.4 so i decided to explore using Image Stabilization. My first one to get: Canon 28-135mm f/3.5 IS
the reason why i wanted this lens was the 135mm and the IS feature. allowed me to get a bit more zoom to get up close and personal to what i'm shooting:
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| From my fav photos |
After that my setup was good for a very long time. I loved each and every lens I had but I found that I sometimes loved the 18-55mm for the wide angle spread that I would get over my 50mm / 28-135mm. But i loved Image Stabilization so.... I got the 18-55mm f/3.5 IS lens.
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don't be fooled because it's just a plain-jane lens that comes stock with cameras. the new 18-55mm lens actually has some very good optics inside it. the build isn't all that great, but image improvement over the original 18-55mm is like night and day.
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| From my fav photos |
Then tinkering around with my 18-55mm I realized i like taking shots like the one above. Landscapes. But how can I make it seem more dramatic? At times I wish i could take physical steps back in order to engulf the full view of my shot, but alas, most of the times I was unable to. Then I tried out my friend's Canon 10-22mm lens and loved the mega wide-angle. I had never bought a $600 lens before and wasn't too keen on spending that much cash, so i went for a poor man's wide angle and bought a 0.42x adapter for my 18-55mm lens:
which allowed me to do pictures such as these:
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| From my fav photos |
and the more funner Fisheye Shots
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| From 2009-07-03 San Diego |
which was a good lead-up to what i really wanted. A full blown ultra-wide angle lens. I sold my 50mm f/1.4 (it was time...) and got myself a Tokina 12-24mm f/4 Lens
and i absolutely LOVE this lens when I take landscape shots
Then on craigslist I found and schemed one of the best deals i could get... someone on craigslist was selling their Canon XS for an insanely low price... so low that I know i could have sold my Canon XT for the same price as the price i am about to pay for the XS.... so....
say hello to my new best friend.... =) and yes, just last week I was able to sell my Canon XT for the same exact price i paid to get the XS (giving away the stock lens that the XT came with was fine since the camera originally came with it) and an extra 18-55mm IS lens since the person i bought the XS from already came with the 18-55mm IS lens.
And yesterday... after much thinking about it and with the help of an insane deal that i found through Craigslist.... i went and bought my first L lens....
Canon 28-70mm f/2.8L *drools*
If it were any more epic i would have had to play the Empire Strikes Back theme as you scrolled through those pictures....
i have yet to take it on a phototrip.... maybe if the weather holds up this weekend I will find myself roaming around the bay area with that mammoth of a lens
hopefully i can get a good a shot as this:
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