cehwiedel: Digital Photography Wish List

This wish list is partially a management mechanism, to keep myself from running out and buying all the really cool stuff that I find in my research on digital photography.

To maintain fiscal discipline, I have decided to only purchase items from this wish list from funds generated by the stock photography micro-revenue stream.

Further, this wish list starts out deliberately partial and non-comprehensive. I’ll add to it as I learn more through not only reading but testing equipment.

Already, in my early efforts to take minimally competent photographs, I’ve decided that I want to upgrade to a digital single-lens reflex camera with an optical viewfinder, external flash attachment and at least a resolution of 6 megapixels.

The minimal 6-megapixel picture resolution criterion is obviously so that I’ll meet the minimal requirement for professional high-resolution stock photography.

But why an SLR?

Because the optical viewfinder of an SLR looks through the lens: what you see is what you get. Already, with my low-end Kodak Easyshare, I’ve taken too many pictures of a finger, or the camera wrist-strap, simply because I didn’t realize they were in the way.

And the external flash?

Because the Kodak’s flash too easily leaves a flash artifact, a “burned spot,” in the photograph. Yech.