Digital Photography Magazine

The Quest for an Online Digital Photography Magazine

Writing by Zvika on Wednesday, 17 of October , 2007 at 11:21 pm

I have been on the look for a collaborative and informative digital photography magazine online for quite some time. I was looking to a place where you can quickly and easily read about subjects of interest in an easy fashion, and realized that a blog is probably the most natural place to do that efficiently and effectively, so I have set up this one.

Having been involved in electronic pre-press system since 1980, I got involved with digital photography since 1986 (yes, you heard it right). That was the time when Canon introduced their first digital SLR (a very expensive one, I must add), and we had it on trial in a trade fair in Chicago. We were demonstrating a process for newspaper where we took a picture of a visitor at one end of the stand, and as he/she progressed to the other end, their picture would appear in the first page of a newspaper.

Interestingly enough, it did not catch very well at the time. The main reason, in my opinion, was the lack of good communication platform. A photographer could take pictures at an event and send the roll of film to the editor by counter to counter service at a very reasonable cost, but to transmit a digital image would have taken a very long time and the cost was very prohibitive.

And then came the internet and cable and broadband, and the rest is history.

I had my first digital camera, a FUJI (I don’t remember the model, but it was a 1.5 MPixels, with 3x optical zoom), in 1998. It did a great job, even though getting the pictures in and out was a bit tedious. My next camera was one of the first models of Panasonic Lumix. I was in Singapore with a friend who was looking to buy a camera for a friend of his, and the sales person asked me if I am interested in one as well. I told him that he probably doesn’t have what I am looking for and his answer was “try me”. So I did. I told him that I am not interested in many MPixels since I need it for 4”x6” prints, but I wand good optics with good optical zoom. He said “I got exactly what you’re looking for” and brought the Lumix, with 2.5MPixels, Leica optics with a great optical zoom. Perfect for my wife for taking pictures of our grand daughter. Later on I bought a more recent model for my sister who loves the camera and the pictures it takes.

A couple of years ago my wife started a wholesale jewelery business, and I became the “official” photographer for catalogs, web sites, etc. Last year we got exclusivity for the ZSiska product line of resin jewelery, which is very colorful and intricate. To get better equipped I got a digital SLR, Nikon D70, and added a macro lens, Tamron 90mm. A great combination!

Having been involved in all this, I was always looking for improving my technique and getting better and better in macro photography, as well as landscape photography, which I very much like too. I found a lot of scattered information, and thought it would be nice to have it all in one place where all interested can share and learn from it, hence this digital photography magazine online.

 

If you are interested in posting on my blog, feel free to contact me. I will review it and publish it under your name so you can get credit for it.

 




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