I purchased the OM-1, manufactured by OM System (formerly Olympus), and this is the first photo I took with the settings I intended.
The photo from the next day looks like this.
It’s a photo with the aperture wide open, intentionally blurring the background. The model is the left thumb of Rikutsu Kone Taro .
The first photo is slightly underexposed and, to be honest, a meaningless photo. However, more than anything else, I am impressed by the era where you can easily take a photo like this, with such a blurred background, and share it with the whole world on the internet with just a few clicks.
Belatedly feeling like saying “Hello, World.”
Micro Four Thirds is said to have less bokeh compared to full-frame, but with this much bokeh, it’s more than enough for Rikutsu-Kone- Taro.
Oh, it’s so much fun.
However, taking photos with a digital single-lens reflex camera is quite a complex task. If I didn’t have knowledge of film cameras, operating a digital single-lens reflex camera would have been completely confusing for me.
The term for sensitivity has changed from ASA to ISO, but exposure is still determined by aperture and shutter speed. However, due to digitalization, there are many parameters that can be processed inside the camera, so the photographer must make decisions for each of these parameters.
High resolution? What’s that feeling…
No, depending on the perspective, if you see it as the photographer gaining more control over the photo, enthusiasm begins to rise.
Let’s think positively about this.
In the film era, sensitivity was determined by the film you bought. The only freedom was in aperture and shutter speed, so to create a situation, you had to use multiple flashes or studios.
The result of such extensive work was unknown until the photographic product, the photograph, was in hand. (In the era of black and white, it seems that physical DPE was also within the photographer’s defensive range.)
I think that was fun in its own way.
However, with digital cameras, you can check the image right away on the spot after taking it, and you can sequentially confirm the effects of the settings changes.
Changing sensitivity for each frame, which was physically impossible in the film era, can now be done.
It takes quite some time to master the shooting and operation of a digital camera, but if you can enjoy the process, you can obtain an image close to the intended photo, even if it doesn’t turn out exactly as planned.
Oh, it’s truly interesting.
That’s it for this time.
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