Just for professional photographers? by Barbora Misakova

I like taking pictures. I like it a lot. I don’t know actually how all this started, maybe it was just some kind of hidden love for pictures, colors and light, I don’t know. But the point is I always wanted to have my own camera. So you can imagine my happiness when I got it. I remember that day. It was on Christmas Eve, in the year when all those old cameras which had to be loaded with films started slowly dying. It was a year when brand new, hyper modern and easy to handle cameras were becoming (very quickly) a stars on photographic field. So my first camera was one of the old types, actually nothing special. It was quite big, little bit heavy and it even didn’t look very charming. But I loved it anyway. I was taking my camera everywhere. I was taking pictures of trees, clouds, animals, taking pictures at home, but I took my camera on every single concert or festival I was on! It was amazing time, and I thought that this feeling will last forever. My eyes had an idea and the eye of my camera caught this idea, this one moment and atmosphere in a picture. We were really good team until my best friend started getting older. I still had a lot of ideas, lot of subjects I wanted to photograph, but my camera wasn’t able to catch that moment anymore. The era of digital cameras already began.
Brands such as Canon, Sony, Konica Minolta etc. started to create their own cameras. Incredible number of these technical miracles started to appear on the market. And people were crazy about it. They have seen nice, modern, easy cameras which take better pictures which you can even see before you let them develop. The old cameras were for nothing, at least for the most of the common mortals. But the romantic character of the old types of cameras didn’t disappear. And lot of photographers came back to their old cameras. Not because they would be sentimental, but because of the quality of pictures. That’s why another step of camera developers leaded to another aim - create such a digital camera which could make pictures of the same quality. The market is full of such devices today. You can have a really bad time till you decide which one you want. Producers make it even more difficult when every new week there is some new kind of camera, with this and that. This time Leica, small but very prestigious German maker, comes with world’s “fastest” lens for still cameras. This Noctilux lens should have an aperture number of 0.95 which should be able to gather 11 percent more light than the older version of their lens. What does it mean? You can take pictures in poor lighting conditions and you can still have very good pictures. So you can take pictures on concerts, festivals, and everywhere else when there is not so much light. Anyway 11 percent is not so much and the difference between this new lens and the lens before is hardly to recognize. So it’s up to you if you come back to your older version or you will rather be “pro-photographer” with a camera lens which will cost about $ 10 000.


related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_hi_te/tec_techbit_fast_lens;_ylt=Ag_S1Hxc6rowbIhJoYpJxsys0NUE

by Barbora Misakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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