Thomas Locke Hobbs
| Hi! Thanks for visiting. I'm an American photographer living in Buenos Aires. These are photos from the blog I kept on my site from 2003 to 2009. I now have redesigned the home page to just show a portfolio of my current work. I also blog at BuenosAiresPhotographer.com where I post my baires snapshots. |
My Digital Cameras
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| I have two digital cameras, pictured above; a Canon
Digital Rebel and a Minolta
XG. The Rebel is currently about $800 and the Minolta
about $180. The Rebel is for pictures I care about [mostly
portraits]. I can make enlargements up to 12"x18" that look
spectacular. The Minolta is my go-anywhere camera that fits
in my pocket.
Using a Digital SLR like the Rebel, which is the cheapest one available, is like driving a Porsche. It's an absolute pleasure to take pictures with and the images themselves are of superb quality--near equal to film but with all the advantages of digital [instant feedback, no processing costs, custom white balance, and changeable ISO settings]. For anyone who's interested in buying a digital camera and is looking at the more expensive, so-called "prosumer" models I'd recommend spending more to get this camera. There's a discontinuous jump in image quality, design and control with a Digital SLR and everything else below it. I thought I'd use the Minolta more. It's always with me but I rarely take it out. It's nice and sleek but I've found my picture taking to have grown more deliberate [arranged photo sessions] rather than spontaneous. Still, it's good to have and it's a lot better than a shitty phonecam [which will someday be OK, just not yet]. I wish it ran on AA or AAA rechargeable rather than a proprietary one. I like to have all my gadgets running the same type of batteries. It makes the "recharging" lifestyle a little easier to manage. For this blog, most of the photos are taken with the Rebel, altho I shrink the images so severely that the difference is hardly evident [altho any picture with a narrow depth of field [blurry background] was definitely taken with the Rebel as the Minolta's lens is too small for that effect]. The Paris Pictures were all taken with the Rebel while Portugal was all done with the small Minolta. |
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 | Hi. I'm a 33 year-old American currently living in Buenos Aires. Before that I lived in California, Sao Paulo and New York and if you browse through the archives below you can see photos of all those places. Currently I'm posting most of my pictures on BuenosAiresPhotographer.com. I also have an old geocities page with some outdated information but also more photos of Buenos Aires, friends and my 9/11 pictures. |