Failure is the Key to Success

I’ve decided, the time has come for me to move to digital. Just really for the convenience. I’m always conscious when taking photos that I’ve got to pay to have them developed.

I’m going to change to a digital SLR and so have spent some time researching what my options are. I narrowed the field down to the following makes Olympus, Canon and Nikon.

Initially my thought was get an Olympus and then get an adaptor which would allow me to use my existing 35mm film lenses with it. This would only work in a totally manual mode, but I didn’t see that as a big issue. Then I started thinking ‘was I choosing this camera in my mind just so I didn’t have to invest in new lenses’ and ‘were my lenses really that good that a modern digital lens wouldn’t be as good or better’. The more I thought about it the more I concluded that my lenses were fine for what I was using, but they are old technology and weren’t exceptional even in their day.

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This is shamelessly stolen from Evel’s And another thing… where I saw it this morning

I watched in disbelief, I’d seen a couple of the clips before, but oh, there is some stress management needed here:

I’m glad no-one at our work has got this stressed over a computer!

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