Today’s Post by Joe Farace
There is no blue without yellow and without orange. —Vincent Van Gogh
Let’s jump into my time machine DeLorean to see how digital camera technology has changed over the years…
In 2008, the 6.6-megapixel Casio EXLIM Pro EX-F1 was the second digital camera from the company that I ever used, although the company actually manufactured many different cameras—68 of’em by my count. I wrote about their first camera, the QV-10 when reviewing it for ComputerUSER magazine back in 1995, back when computer magazines were still a thing.
The Pro EX-F1 was a departure from the company’s existing line of stylish point-and-shoot digicams. For its time, it was a capable camera that had a 36–432mm equivalent lens and used a 1/1.8-inch high-speed CMOS sensor. These days, it’s 12x zoom lens would have made it a superzoom camera. The Pro EX-F1 used an SD card but also had 31.9MB of built-in memory. The camera als an electronic viewfinder (a big deal back then) and delivered both still image capture and HD video files in such a way that I sometimes wondered when shooting it whether it was a video camera that made stills or vice-versa. Alas Casio stopped making digital cameras in May, 2018.
How I Made this Photograph: This was the first Mercedes Benz SLK 320 that Mary owned and it was the good one. Her Silver SLK 350 was not. I photographed her blue car in Denver’s City Park, near the city’s zoo. If you look closely you’ll see some geese running around in the background. The car was illegally parked and I only had a few minutes to make this photo before the gendarmes came along. The EXLIM Pro EX-F1’s lens was set at 70mm equivalent with an Av exposure of 1/640 at f/8.1 and ISO 200.
Her Car
The R170 Mercedes SLK was the first generation compact roadster that was produced by Mercedes-Benz from 1996 to 2004. The SLK-Class was introduced at the Turin Motor Show on April 1996, theoretically as a modern incarnation of the 1950s classic Mercedes-Benz 190SL with a four cylinder engine and identical 94-inch wheelbase. In 2000, all models received a modest facelift with updated engines like the 3.2 L V6 that powered Mary’s car. While she loves her Beetle convertible, to this day she still misses the SLK and to tel the truth, so do I.
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