Goodbye Digital Camera, Hello DSLR

Dear Mr. Pentax,

I’m sorry to say that I’m going to end our relationship. It’s been an amazing six years but to be frank, you just weren’t cutting it anymore. It was time for me to move up in the camera world. It’s time for me to say good-bye. But before I let you go forever, I just wanted to thank you for the good times.

Thank you for taking crisp landscape shots in landscape mode, on my many camping trips with Jon.

Thank you for your museum mode and accompanying me to the Louvre and the Musee de Orsay.

Thank you for continuously shooting funny face contests between me and Jon.

Thank you for letting me pretend to take artsy photos.

Thank you for joining me for college and resisting the urge to judge.

Thank you for occasionally making me look skinny.

Thank you for sunset mode and the photographs to display its awesomeness.

Thank you for being quick enough to capture images of Tex as a puppy.

Thank you for being small enough to easily fit into the smallest wristlet.

Thank you for priceless photos of family and friends.

It’s been an amazing run, Mr. Pentax, but you weren’t without your fair share of woes. I won’t miss the photos blurry of their own accord, or the automatic focus that won’t photograph what I want it to.

True it’s mostly been grand, but now I with Mr. Canon I have more control over my photos. It will be less about his limitations and more about mine. So thank you Mr. Pentax, for being the best you could be. With Mr. Canon, I hope to be the best I can be.

Goodbye. I wish I could say I won’t miss you. But I might.

-Frankie

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13 thoughts on “Goodbye Digital Camera, Hello DSLR”

Those are some great pics! I have a DSLR, and I desperately need to learn to use it – my pictures almost always come out better from my point and shoot. Sad but true

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Frankie on October 27, 2011 at 2:23 pm said:

Thanks! It really was a good camera. The class I took (last one tonight) was really helpful in learning how to use my camera, although I’d still consider myself very much a novice. I would really love to take a more advanced photography class, but now I’m also itching to try my hands at pottery. What kind of dslr do you have? I have to say I read my manual and that helps too. Although uploading the pictures to my computer remains a mystery…

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- Kira@hernewleaf on October 27, 2011 at 4:25 pm said:
  
  Lol Frankie, you crack me up. All you need is this! http://www.amazon.com/IOGEAR-MicroSD-Reader-Writer-GFR204SD/dp/B0046TJG1U/
- Frankie on October 27, 2011 at 4:34 pm said:
  
  I actually don’t think I need that. I want it, because it’s greenish yellow but I have the cord to connect my camera to the computer. I just can not insert the disc I’m supposed to use to upload software. Supposedly I don’t actually need to do that unless I shoot in raw. However my Manual says “Do not connect camera to your computer until you upload the software from the disc included.” And so I am scared to connect the camera to my computer without uploading the software. My stupid disc drive has been broken for like years. I should just fix it already.
- Kira@hernewleaf on October 27, 2011 at 8:36 pm said:
  
  I just use iPhoto and stick my card in my card reader. I assume it would work for your Canon as well – I didn’t install any software!
- Frankie on October 28, 2011 at 8:41 am said:
  
  I was thinking about it yesterday during class and I think you’re right. I need a card reader. That way I only have to upload the photos I want to upload and not everything everytime. It will let me be choosier as to what ends up on the precious space left on my computer and external hard drive.
  
  Do you shoot in Raw? If so do you use a special photo editing (developing not photoshop) software, like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, or Aperture?
- Kira@hernewleaf on November 1, 2011 at 6:12 pm said:
  
  I shoot in both jpg and RAW but honestly never edit RAWs since I use my little laptop and it doesn’t have the memory to handle processing them. But I save them to my external in case I ever learn more about editing and want to edit them. Probably not worth it for me at this point though, lol. I don’t have Lightroom or Aperture because I have Photoshop and I can use that to do everything they can do. I’ve only used Lightroom once (on M’s dad’s computer) and it seemed user-friendly but COMPLICATED. I don’t think I would spend the money on it unless I was going to take a class to learn how to really use it well.
- Frankie on November 2, 2011 at 2:44 pm said:
  
  My photography class teacher said that Lightroom and Aperature are very different from Photoshop and that they do different things. I haven’t shot in RAW yet and like you, I don’t plan to unless I can get and learn to use Lightroom or Aperture. Right now I’m just going to focus on learning to use the camera and editing the jpgs. By the way, I did order the memory card converter thingy you suggested. I figured it would just be better than having to have my actual camera by the computer everytime I want to upload pictures. Thanks for suggesting it!
- Kira@hernewleaf on November 2, 2011 at 10:58 pm said:
  
  Lightroom and Aperture are different from Photoshop in that they are made specifically for editing photos so they use photography terminology and are simpler for photogs to batch-edit many photos at once. But everything you can do in them you can also do in Photoshop, assuming you thoroughly know the ins and outs of it. If your teacher told you otherwise, he was wrong, lol.
- Frankie on November 3, 2011 at 8:34 am said:
  
  Perhaps I misunderstood him. I’m sure his preference for lightroom had a lot to do with them providing it for him, when it was first released. I only have photoshop elements on my computer, and I don’t really use it all that often so I’m not 100% familiar with everything. I use picnik to edit my photos most of the time. It’s just simpler.