Meadows Garden Golf Course in Maple Ridge shot with Fuji S1Pro in 2005

 


I thought I would do a series of photos with the theme of the camera body used to take it.  The above photograph was taken in 2005 with Fujifilm's S1 Pro DSLR camera.  I was photographing snow scenes at the time and was using the rule of thirds as a compositional guideline.  Exposure compensation was used to make the snow white instead of gray.  

The Fuji camera was the first DSLR I bought.  I was using film up until that point, although I had some experience with compacts.  I purchased the Fuji camera because I could use all of my FE II's lenses.  It was a period of learning for me as the difference between film and sensor-captured images is significant.  It did, however, allow me to meld my computer knowledge with my photography knowledge and I wrote my first edition of The DSLR. It is currently in its 4th edition and now is called DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras.  I am teaching a course on it starting next week.

It has been about 24 years since I bought that camera body.  I ended up wrecking it by attaching an old flash to it; the trigger voltage of old flashes exceeds what the camera was built for and I blew out some of the electronics.  Although I was sad at the loss, it allowed me to purchase my next DSLR, Nikon's D70.  I will write about that next day.

Thanks for reading.

Eric Svendsen     www.ericspix.com

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