Image DAY 1 PHOTOGRAPHY 101

Camera-derie

USE IT OR LOSE IT

Almost everyone owns at least one camera. It could be a film camera, a cell phone camera, or a digital camera. You may have started by borrowing the camera of your parents to take photographs. During the time I employed this tactic, the common film camera models took 110 film. After years of constantly borrowing her camera, my mother gave into my whim, purchased a SLR (single lens reflex) camera and enrolled me in an adult education course in photography. Thirty years later, I now use digital SLRs (DSLRs) in my photography business.

People have a myriad of reasons for purchasing a camera. ...

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