What were you shooting in 2001!

[David Hughes]

Leica CL, Yashica AF-230 and Olympus XA2 but on the digital side an Olympus E-1* and a Fuji MX-1500.

Later on I sold the Yashica because of the high cost of the batteries (2CR5) and went back to a (second-hand then) Pentax ME super. I still have those 3 film cameras but the digitals are long gone.

I can't remember the MX-1500 and had to look it up and still couldn't remember anything about it except that the records show I bought a 32MB media card for UKP 40 then.

Regards, David

* It was an E-10, usual (painful) finger trouble did that...

 

[rbiemer]

.... All I'm saying is that if you subtract the hysteria, 2001 may not be all that important in the long run. Especially not to non-Americans.
Cheers,

R;.

But Roger, the hysteria is what made 2001 stand out in our ( us Americans') memories.
Much like, for me, 1963: my first memory of television was when JFK was assassinated. I was three years old and I remember, 1) my parents were devastated and 2) I couldn't watch Yogi Bear because the only thing on all 3 tv channels was coverage of the President's murder.

In 2001, (I won't attest to this but I think) I was using a FED5 for 35mm and an Arax60 for 120 film that year.


Rob

 

[David Hughes]

OK, I have to ask:-

What happened in 2001 that frightened/amazed/worried you all in the US of A?

Regards, David

PS Just remembered, "Lord of the Rings" was released and so was the first of the Harry Potter films...

 

[rbiemer]

OK, I have to ask:-

What happened in 2001 that frightened/amazed/worried you all in the US of A?

Regards, David

PS Just remembered, "Lord of the Rings" was released and so was the first of the Harry Potter films...

Assuming you're seriously asking:

Rob

 

[RichC]

I wasn't interested in photography in 2001 - and just took snaps with compact cameras. However, I'd already seen the writing on the wall for film, and gave it up for the convenience of digital in 1999 ... and I haven't looked back for 18 years!

In 2001 I was still using that first digital camera. It was this handsome beast ... a Fuji 4700. It had a resolution of 2 MP, used (now defunct) Smart Media cards and AA batteries. Took surprisingly good photos, and the printed snaps were as good as any 35 mm compact film camera! It ate batteries like anything, though: it'd eat a Duracell AA within an hour or 50 photos, whichever came sooner!

 

[sepiareverb]

In 2001 I was shooting stock for $, with two F4S bodies and an F100. Mostly ektachrome and Velvia. Out in the woods many days a week.

I also was shooting a lot of still life in the studio with a Wisner 810 on Delta 100.

 

[Tim Murphy]

Dear Board,

Canon EOS Elan

Minolta Weathermatic Dual 35

Nikon FTN

Regards,

Tim Murphy

Harrisburg, PA

 

[css9450]

It ate batteries like anything, though: it'd eat a Duracell AA within an hour or 50 photos, which came sooner!

LOL I remember that feeling well. My first digital was a HP P&S I got in 2004, which used AA batteries. I'm not even sure it would do 50 photos! I did find it could do more if I bought expensive lithium batteries though. When that camera was stolen, I bought another HP P&S... But at least this one had a proprietary rechargeable battery which could shoot all day before getting low. It was a huge improvement.

Its funny; those P&Ss came during a lull in my "regular" photography. After shooting slides for years, I was pretty burned out by about 2003 and took an extended break. I shot just a smattering of rolls in 2003-2004-2005 and actually let almost all of them accumulate before taking them in for processing. I used the P&Ss for quick snaps during the lull. I gradually picked up the SLRs again slowly starting about 2006 and found that by that time E6 processing was no longer available locally; it was now slow, expensive and inconsistent in quality. That was one of the factors that drove me to buy my first DSLR in 2008.

 

[RichC]

I wasn't interested in photography in 2001 - and just took snaps with compact cameras. However, I'd already seen the writing on the wall for film, and gave it up for the convenience of digital in 1999 ... and I haven't looked back for 18 years!

In 2001 I was still using that first digital camera. It was this handsome beast ... a Fuji 4700. It had a resolution of 2 MP, used (now defunct) Smart Media cards and AA batteries. Took surprisingly good photos, and the printed snaps were as good as any 35 mm compact film camera! It ate batteries like anything, though: it'd eat a Duracell AA within an hour or 50 photos, whichever came sooner!

I'll forever be grateful to that camera: getting exactly what I saw - immediately - was a revelation. With film, often by the time I got it developed, I'd forgotten why I took some pictures; also, the prints I got back never looked like I imagined they ought too - back then, I had no idea that local print shops auto-adjusted the exposure and cropped the edges off my images!

That Fuji piqued (note the spelling - not "peeked" or "peaked" LOL!) my interest in photography, and I bought my first "serious" camera - a Canon 10D - in 2003, to be followed by several others, both film and digital. I've since been awarded a master's degree in fine-art photography, and my work's been in exhibitions around the world. And it's all thanks to that 2 MP digital camera I bought two decades ago...!

 

[rscheffler]

Canon EOS-3 and EOS-1N.

I was flirting with buying an EOS-1V in 2001... I borrowed one quite frequently that year from Canon's CPS program and loved it.

But I held off on rumors of the EOS-1 digital camera, which appeared at the end of the year as the EOS-1D and I had in my hands by December. So instead of spending ~2500 CAD on the 1V, I paid ~8000 CAD for the 1D and another ~6000 CAD for a couple computers (desktop and laptop) and related items (256MB CF cards for ~$300 US, lol).

By the second half of 2002 I only shot digital, which remains true to today. But I still have the EOS-3 and 1N...

I bought one of the first D1 Nikons when they were introduced. Clients at first were reluctant to adopt digital but within a year most of them were wanting their work done digitally.

I remember this too. Some clients thought shooting digital would mean I would be coming to jobs with a digital P&S, like a Coolpix, or something. For others, their production people were slow to adopt a fully digital workflow and as a result reluctant to accept digital 'originals.' I seem to recall an issue being the lack of a physical original against which to accurately compare press proofs. Color managed workflows were not well understood. I also happened to work in prepress at this time and understood some of the reluctance, but was also familiar with how different digital files were from film scans and how they could be optimally processed for print. Meaning, most of the prepress reluctance I encountered from clients was lack of understanding/education on their part.

 

[Godfrey]

Leica CL, Yashica AF-230 and Olympus XA2 but on the digital side an Olympus E-1 and a Fuji MX-1500. ...

It would be difficult to shoot with an Olympus E-1 in 2001 since it wasn't released until 2003. 🙂
Still have mine, manufactured in October 2003...

G

 

[Dante_Stella]

Brand-new Hexar RF, Autoreflex T4, Minolta Autocord. Early in the year a Canon P.

 

[Godfrey]

Roger,

2001 was the year that George W Bush was first inaugurated President of the United States: the first time the US presidency had been stolen away from the rightful candidate in this century. That's a pretty significant thing in world politics and on the historical record. It set a precedent.

The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center also marked a fairly significant moment in world politics: the moment that terrorists won. That has changed the entire world in some fairly noticeable ways since. 🙂

These are not the only significant events of the past fifty years, of course, and I'm not going to judge if they were the most significant or just two of many. But to say that they aren't particularly significant is to wear blinders.

G

 

[radi(c)al_cam]

Roger,

2001 was the year that George W Bush was first inaugurated President of the United States: the first time the US presidency had been stolen away from the rightful candidate in this century. That's a pretty significant thing in world politics and on the historical record. It set a precedent.

Ouch, now all our lovely teabaggees (aka teabaggers, teahadists, teatards) on the forum are going to flame you, dear Godfrey 🙁

 

[narsuitus]

"What were you shooting with in 1956 (or 1959)?" Of course, you'd probably have to be at least 75 or so to participate...

I was shooting my father's Kodak Bullet.

I now have his camera and I still have the first photo I took with it in the spring of 1952. However, I am not yet 75.


Kodak Bullet by Narsuitus, on Flickr

 

[JoeLopez]

I was shooting my father's Kodak Bullet.

I now have his camera and I still have the first photo I took with it in the spring of 1952. However, I am not yet 75.

Kodak Bullet by Narsuitus, on Flickr

That is cool!

 

[css9450]

That uses 127 film I assume?

 

[Godfrey]

That uses 127 film I assume?

Kodak Bullet: eight 1-5/8" x 2-1/2" pictures on a 127-format roll of film

See Classic Cameras: the 1936 Kodak Bullet and Walter Teague for an interesting write up.

G

 

[Godfrey]

Ouch, now all our lovely teabaggees (aka teabaggers, teahadists, teatards) on the forum are going to flame you, dear Godfrey 🙁

I hope they don't waste their time on that (it won't change anything, least of all my opinion) and instead look at the article on the Kodak Bullet I posted a link to. What a beautiful old bit of bakelite design that camera is! I'd love to have one on my shelf in pristine condition.

G

 

[David Hughes]

It would be difficult to shoot with an Olympus E-1 in 2001 since it wasn't released until 2003. 🙂
Still have mine, manufactured in October 2003...

G

Thanks, it was the E-10. Usual (painful) finger trouble I'm afraid.

Regards, David