Equipment Used in the Past

Over the years I've had my share of point-and-shoot cameras. Here's a smattering of them:

* Kodak Ready-Flash 110mm
* Minolta Talker 35mm
* Sony DSC-P9

My first real digital camera was an Olympus D-600 that I bought at CompUSA in 1997. It could only take pictures that were 640 dpi x 480 dpi and had a stock 18-35 "zoom" lens. And it would only take 4 AA batteries which lasted for approximately 34 pictures without flash or 14 pictures with flash.

Current Equipment Used

Today, I am using the following equipment:

- Nikon D40
- Nikon 18-70mm AF
- Nikon 70-200mm AF w/o VR
- Nikon 70-300mm AF w/ VR

For those times where a point-and-shoot is more reasonable, I rely on a Canon PowerShot SD900.

From time to time, it's still nice to use an older film camera that makes the user really think. For that, I fall back to my father's Canon AE-1 Program (yes, the one that takes real film). And the lenses for that camera are a Tokina 50-200mm and a Soligar 28-50mm.

A few times, I may actually wind up using a little cell phone camera when needed.

Hardware and Software

In this digital age, it isn't enough to just post photos. Photos need to be cleaned up. To do that, I use a couple of different pieces of hardware and software.

Hardware includes my Mac Pro running Leopard and LaCie 1 TB external hard drive on my desk. Also, a Canon LiDE 600F scanner takes care of any older pictures I come across.

On the road, a MacBook Pro and LaCie 100GB portable drive do the work of keeping the photos for me.

To clean up the noise, Photoshop and Noiseware work well.