My Digital Photography Secret

What is the secret to taking a good digital photograph? This is the question I asked myself when I bought my first digital camera way back in 1998.

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Those were the good old days when the digital age was just beginning and everything seemed possible. I needed a digital camera in my profession, and I also thought that it would make a nice hobby.

I read up on all the information that was available on the internet in those days, and there wasn't a lot. So I set about my work and my hobby on the simple premise that if I took one hundred digital photographs, maybe one would turn out properly.

This was actually not a bad theory, and I must admit that I did indulge myself with the digital camera that I bought. It was a Sony Mavica series 7, top of the range! In its time it was a truly great camera. Weighed a lot and looked very impressive.

Its major drawback was that it recorded the images on floppy discs, and could only take about 12 images per disc, if my memory serves me well. This meant that it in order to take your 100 photographs; I had to carry 12 or 13 floppy discs on my person at all times. This made me rattle when I walked. If I was on a professional shoot, and a little under pressure, I would become confused which of my vest pocket contained the full floppies and which one contained the empties.

But I loved that camera. It took some really great images, some of the best I have ever taken. I used it for 4 years, and even replaced the large lithium battery that it needed once, even though the cost of replacing the battery was almost the cost of new digital camera, which was incidentally about the same size. I started to get the impression that I was staying too long with my Sony Digital Mavica when I began to find it difficult to find a computer that would accept the floppy discs.

So I moved on, albeit reluctantly, to a Fuji and have been with them ever since.

And I discovered that things had changed in the years that I had been married to Mavica. For a start I had a 128mb memory card, and could take my 100 photographs without endlessly shuffling my floppy discs. The new Fuji fit snugly into my top pocket and could be connected to my computer using this new thing called a USB cable.

What I hadn't realized was that I didn't need to take 100 shots to get a good one; my ratio had actually gone down to almost three to one. But I was having such a good time that I just kept on shooting. The secret was that I was getting better all the time and gaining in experience. And so was the digital imaging industry.