My dad bought a camera (manual focus, not sure what brand it was though - Panda?) and I feel in love with it quickly. I proceeded to get a Canon EOS 700 and a 630 subsequently during JC. Having spent most of my allowances on photo equipment and film processing during my JC days, I'm hesitant to go down this path again.
Photography was an expensive hobby then. A roll of 36s costs abt $5-7 with prints and processing fees costing abt $12-15 per roll. I think abt $100 went out each time I went out shooting. Assuming if I'd invested that money since 1990, I'd have a tidy sum now.
It's probably not as expensive as before (though I think digital ones have zero resale value compared to the film types - I remembered want to get a Nikon FM2 then), but digitals would require quite a fair amount of house-keeping (storage in a single drive folder? Not me) and filing.
For those who didn't know, I was a photographer during my NS days - following VIPs, taking photos, sending them for processing etc. took a lot of the passion away. Even using a Nikon F4s (the top of the line circa 1993 - probably costs around $4k+ then) didn't sustain that interest for long.
Maybe it was an overdose of taking too many pictures in too short a timespan. I swore off SLRs and "serious" photography since then. The only camera that I'd owned since was a Canon S40 that took decent pictures but it was misplaced (don't ask).
It was only after Caeden was born, we bought the Olympus mju as we thought having a waterproof camera would serve us well as our boy loved water. And it did.
Last Friday, Ivy and I had the opportunity to catch Caeden's Christmas concert at his school. We tried using the Olympus. With a 3x zoom and poor ISO sensitivity, the pics that came out were HORRIBLE.
With two kids (cute ones I might say), it would be a terrible shame not to capture precious moments that we spend together.
The Canon SX20 is calling out to me...
