As I mentioned in the previous post, some of my family members and I all chipped in to purchase a DSLR for my dad’s birthday. He had been asking for one for quite some time, but as my family is usually broke all of the time. It took me chipping in about half the cost while everyone else gave what they could. But he really did want one, he had always wanted a camera. Which is why he owns at least 2 film cameras.
I remember him going all in to buy a film camera, lens and filters for a Florida vacation one year. The idea was to take pictures of the turtles that came up to lay their eggs overnight. I have no idea if those came out, I remember him keeping rolls of undeveloped film in the freezer for a long time after that. I also have no idea if that helps keep them… fresh…
But anyway, we finally got it for him. And a few years later he takes pictures, occasionally. Retirement is a slow moving process. But I was very impressed that he went to take a class at the local community college. He would tell me all about the things he was learning and show me the pictures he would take. But that is jumping ahead by almost a year. First the trip where I dropped it off to him.
(He knew what the gift was ahead of time, he specifically asked for it at Christmas. But here he is pretending)
Let’s see what I can spy in the box that the bundle came in.
That Tamron 28-80mm was not the lens in that box, that had the telephoto I was giving back to him. And as I previously learned it was at least 210mm on the far end, by looking over previous pictures. But everything else in there I believe came with the kit. I see a memory card reader, little cheap hotshoe flash. Memory card, filters of varying kinds and colors. Basically really cheap crappy stuff they the FBA sellers bundle with the main item so they can create their own listing that Amazon can’t get on. As I now work with a very large FBA selling business, I’ve learned these things during my employment.
So we had a day of camera learning and I took some pictures of different stuff while I was up there. Like our dog Falcor.
1/200 Sec - F5.6 - 300mm - ISO 3200
Also that night I did some long exposure attempts using my dads new tripod and a manual shutter release. Up in the mountain of NC the sky is way easier to see than the polluted garbage sky of Atlanta.
30 Sec - F3.5 - 18mm - ISO 6400
I also took a shot of the sun setting behind the trees from my dads driveway
1/250 Sec - F4 - 18mm - ISO 100
1/80 Sec - F5.6 - 55mm - ISO 500
And this was me playing around with the camera on the porch while I was waiting for him to get ready to go out for dinner. I think they had a bag of rocks there for a garden project and I stuck my lens down in.