Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
Recently I've been doing a lot of cleaning, sorting
getting rid of stuff, donating some stuff. Also a little bit eBay and whatever else.
Came up on this camera. Canon Powershot S200 Digital Elph. This was my first
decent digital camera. Really the one that I learned the most on, from the
beginning. 2 megapixels around 2003 or so I picked it up. Still works. So I charged
the battery today and it's running. Probably do a video about this in the
future, we'll see how it goes. But besides that I've been thinking about the
process of photography from the beginning. I do have the Instagram
with photos from this camera in the beginning of the photo list. Of course,
they're cropped to one-to-one ratio... What I'm trying to do with Instagram, but
besides that I think some of the nicest photos that I've taken in the past where
with this camera. I really think it's about the situation more than the gear.
So if you put yourself into a good situation and you find the angles, you
find the composition, that really works you'll get what you want most of the
time regardless of the gear. Of course, what.. different lenses different focal
lengths. The more tools that you have at your disposal of course that will help a
lot. But just at the base level putting yourself in a good situation for the
photo to happen is a big part of it, in my opinion. So besides that, have this
camera here. I also have this Pentax Optio SVi. I picked this one up in Japan
2006. And just recently on Instagram I've been posting some from this camera. But
it works all right. A little more.. I think it's 5 megapixel or so. Probably
do a video on this. I have some batteries I haven't charged. But I
assume they'll work alright. But pretty interesting! Those are the two that I
kept. I did have a Fujifilm S5100 that some of those photos are on
Instagram as well. In the lists I post the camera that I took the photo with. Of
course, it's cropped 1:1 ratio so it's not the full thing, but you get the idea if
you're interested in checking those out. I'm also interested in your photography
journey. You know, your original cameras. Some of the photos that you've taken. If
you want to post a comment with a link to a gallery or something I'll
definitely check those out. In the future I was thinking of interviewing
photographers. Probably local ones of course, but anyone online we could
potentially do some type of Skype video thing. I have never tried it before, but I
am interested. So maybe in the future some videos will be about that. But we'll
see how it goes. Just kind of thinking about the journey of first starting with
this camera. I was doing landscape stuff of course and also cosplay
photography. Right from the beginning I was doing the cosplay photos. Actually
bought this slightly before my first convention. I think the main reason I saw
one of the early cosplay photographers using something like this. And it was
actually a better version of this camera. But I thought he had some nice photos
and I wanted to go with something that I knew had potential. At the time of course
I didn't really know much of anything about photography besides the two other
junkie cameras that I'd use a little bit before then. Of course my photos didn't
turn out quite as good as I had hoped with those first conventions. But I
learned. On the way it learned through failing for the most part. You know, with
the flash.. ahh... auto mode will throw the flash out and then you get the red
eyes and everything else. But I have all those photos that I can look at and see
how bad I did with that. It's pretty fun to look at the old stuff and see the
progression of... Okay, I learned this type of technique around this time period
with this camera. And it's pretty fun to check out the old
photos. Anyways, if you want to talk about this type of stuff I'm interested in
trying to do more about photography. About the process. About the journey of
improving and always improving. Not just the gear stuff. Of course this is a
little bit about gear. But still thinking about the process of learning and
improving. So that's about it. Hope you found this interesting.
I'm Scott from Photography Banzai. Thanks!
Just a side note. I got a power adapter
for the Canon EOS Rebel SL2, if I can remember name...
Works well. I'm using it right now to film
myself. Don't have to deal with batteries, so that's really great. Just plug it in.
I can screw up as many times as I want
with these.. with these videos and it just works!