When I was a boy I was fascinated by the magnifying glass and the power of the glass lens in displaying images. I then built my pin hole camera and graduated to a plastic $2.00 camera which took good quality black and white photos. At school I joined the camera club and learned to process B&W film in the darkness of my bedroom. It was a miracle to see the image slowly appear on the film and then on the photo paper, albeit in a dark room with wet hands and the strong smell of chemicals. In the late 70s I bought myself a Pentax SLR camera. It had a bayonet mount interchangeable lens and lots of new features such as the ability to actually see through the lens what was to appear on the film! I still have that camera and swore allegiance to using it for the rest of my life. Soon my loyalty was challenged when automatic cameras with fantastic speeds, functions and features came on to the market. I scoffed at the owners of such cameras as I believed that I was a better photographer because I had to use my professional judgement in manually setting the F-stops etc.
Then in the late 1990’s the manual clicks of my Pentax were to be forever changed by the sound of the digital click. The market began to be flooded with digital cameras with very expensive price tags – running into the thousands. But this time it was better than the Polaroid camera. One could see the image in real time and capture the moment and review it within the second! No film, no visit to the film processing shop, or having to wait the minimum 24 hours to get the prints.
In the year 2000, I traded a number of my manual cameras and lenses for a second hand Fuji FinePix 4900 Zoom Digital Camera. It has all the features of my Pentax SLR manual camera but I can capture and see the image instantly. It zooms out without the need to change the lens and I can take a close up shot of an ant within a few centimetres.
This digital camera has travelled with me to the mission fields in Myanmar, the slums of Bombay, the foothills of the Everest in Nepal and captured the birth of my first grand child. With majestic instance, I can connect my camera to my PC and email my photos to anyone around the globe. I can also leave my album (e.g. Picasa) on the internet for free and allow the world to see them. Today you can purchase a digital camera for less than $50. Read my recommended book to learn about digital cameras.
The bible talks about the “twinkling of an eye” and the transformation of the dead to life (I Corinthians 15:51-52). It says that this is a mystery. Likewise I see the power in the Digital Click. It is indeed a mystery and I have been transformed – I am a digital camera clicker. I sometimes wonder about the images I capture in my brain with each twinkle of my eyes. Will science one day be able to expose the millions of images somehow? Or is this storage going to be exposed by God at judgement day for all to see – a frightening thought. Have you moved on from your Kodak Instamatic or that chunky Polaroid camera? What is your click? – Manual or Digital?
Then in the late 1990’s the manual clicks of my Pentax were to be forever changed by the sound of the digital click. The market began to be flooded with digital cameras with very expensive price tags – running into the thousands. But this time it was better than the Polaroid camera. One could see the image in real time and capture the moment and review it within the second! No film, no visit to the film processing shop, or having to wait the minimum 24 hours to get the prints.
In the year 2000, I traded a number of my manual cameras and lenses for a second hand Fuji FinePix 4900 Zoom Digital Camera. It has all the features of my Pentax SLR manual camera but I can capture and see the image instantly. It zooms out without the need to change the lens and I can take a close up shot of an ant within a few centimetres.
This digital camera has travelled with me to the mission fields in Myanmar, the slums of Bombay, the foothills of the Everest in Nepal and captured the birth of my first grand child. With majestic instance, I can connect my camera to my PC and email my photos to anyone around the globe. I can also leave my album (e.g. Picasa) on the internet for free and allow the world to see them. Today you can purchase a digital camera for less than $50. Read my recommended book to learn about digital cameras.
The bible talks about the “twinkling of an eye” and the transformation of the dead to life (I Corinthians 15:51-52). It says that this is a mystery. Likewise I see the power in the Digital Click. It is indeed a mystery and I have been transformed – I am a digital camera clicker. I sometimes wonder about the images I capture in my brain with each twinkle of my eyes. Will science one day be able to expose the millions of images somehow? Or is this storage going to be exposed by God at judgement day for all to see – a frightening thought. Have you moved on from your Kodak Instamatic or that chunky Polaroid camera? What is your click? – Manual or Digital?
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