About: me

I'm Totally Just an Amateur...
as you, no doubt, can tell by my photos. I got into photography when I started doing concert photos of Michael Bolton in 1998. I started with a Minolta 35mm body and a Tamron 300mm zoom lens. I also started trying out (or should I say "collecting") a number of digital cameras over the years.

All of the digitals I tried were simply not up to the difficult demands of concert photography and I was disappointed in them all. So I used my 35 mm as often as I was permitted. (And little did I know how infrequently my cheap equipment was considered "professional" and NOT permitted at many venues!

When Canon came out with it's smaller and lighter Rebel Ti camera body, I switched to that and really loved it. It's so much more user-friendly than the Minolta! Of course I had to get yet more lenes for it, since of course, I couldn't use the Minolta lenses on it.

Along the way though, I kept trying various digitals, and when I got to the Olympus 3030Z, I found it was pretty good. And when the Olympus C770 Ultra Zoom came out, it was even better - smaller and faster. Still, its best shots in concerts required flash, which I really hate doing. And focusing was still slow, and recharging after a flash shot even slower. So many good shots were missed because of those lags. Still, it's a great all-around-use camera, small, light, easy to carry, excellent picture quality, and with its 10x zoom, is extremely versatile.

I finally bit the bullet last fall and got a Canon EOS 20D. What a great camera! So very fast, and great pictures! I can't wait to try it out in a concert setting! I bit a HUGE bullet and got the 70-300 zoom for it which is image-stabilized, and significantly shorter tthan the Canon 75-300 zoom, so I'm hoping that it will do well escaping tthe scrutiny of venue camera police! Of course the 20D is VERY heavy compared with 35mm cameras, but the convenience of all-digital is a huge bonus!

Cameras:
Canon EOS 20D
Olympus C770UZ
Olympus 3030Z
Canon Rebel V
Minolta Maxxum

Lenses:
Canon 50mm, Canon 70-300 zoom, Canon 75-300 zoom, Sigma 28-200 zoom, Canon S18-35

Links:

My Michael Bolton Photos web site:
Michael Bolton Photos - Photos are in the "Gallery" area.

My Web Log:
Rants & Ramblings - I don't have time to post too many of my own opinions, but I put up links to important political issues whenever I can.

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