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Saturday, October 4, 2008

Learning photography with the Panasonic LX3 -- Comment()
Two weeks ago I wrote that I have take 612 photos with my Panasonic LX3 camera. Now I'm at 3476 photos taken, and some of them have been the best I have even managed to take. Not that it means much, but I feel that the camera has taught me a lot already in a couple of weeks.

But will the photography interest sustain itself? And why I'm actually taking photos? Perhaps for myself - to see the world better, to understand it, to be able to actually see what is around? I feel that this reason has become more and more strong during the last months. I have develop a kind of eye for visual information. This skill was more or less dormant previously.

I have also a kind of hunger for taking photos. Each day I have a craving to take photos for later viewing and pondering. A form of nourishment.

On the other hand, photography is also about communication. When I take a photo and show it to someone or publish it on the net, I'm showcasing my view of the world for others to see. I'm not sure how much I actually need this kind of reason for taking photos, but it has given a kind of additional interest to it. The comments at my blog Light Scrape have provided very interesting feedback, as also the information I get from Flickr about photo viewers. I can't deny that this kind of indication of interest provides additional encouragement for photography.

But how this will develop, that I can't know. But I feel that the photography hobby will develop further. Maybe I will at some point even invest in a digital system camera, if they become small enough and novel enough for learning more about photography. For now, the LX3 is my trusted photography tool.

I have come back full circle in my photography hobby. With my first camera, Minolta XG-1, I used manual focusing and the aperture priority mode. I'm now using the same kind of settings with the LX3. But the camera is much more versatile, and thanks to the small sensor, I have less problems with depth of field than I had with the Minolta.