# I am a photo addict
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 13, 2000, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337 "2000-12-13T10:06:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/1 "2000-12-13T10:06:41Z")
yesterday I took photos of “bodyparts”
my hand, my eye, my mouth,… my bellybutton and my feet…
I take photos of friends and stuffed animals… I take photos of EVERYTHING
and worse… I put most of em online…
Bodyparts are here: [http://www.horus.com/~steff/](http://www.horus.com/~steff/)
(have to do something about the hidious louding time)
and I think you all have had the pleasure to meet my teddy bear by now \* rolleye \*
I think I ll start the “digital camera annonymous” group…
I ll make a webpage for them right now… with lots of photos… hehe 😉
dodgy
Does anybody else wanna join?
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### Author:  [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/2 "2000-12-13T11:23:29Z")
well I would, but I don’t have a digital camera.
and you’re a freak
that’s a compliment btw
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/3 "2000-12-13T11:32:41Z")
Yeah, what oldscratch said. Maybe someday, though.
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### Author:  [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/4 "2000-12-13T12:07:35Z")
Lemme know when you move on to the _good_ body parts…
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### Author:  [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/5 "2000-12-13T15:23:27Z")
Yep, I know _exactly_ what you mean. Before I bought my digital camera, I had taken a total of 3 rolls of film in my whole life. Now, in the course of a year, I have hundreds of photos. Landscapes, family gatherings, horsies, my cats, a flower I saw once… 🙂
I love my camera! …and I think that I’m getting really good about composition.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/6 "2000-12-13T17:08:43Z")
Geez, Chief. She has a naked picture of herself on that site. Keep clickin’.
And Stefanie, you have a very nice navel.
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### Author:  [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/7 "2000-12-13T17:24:23Z")
Uncle Beer… the porn is yesterdays news… it seems like EVERYBODY on MPSIMS has seen it 😉 hehe
Gotta take some photos… 😃
dodgy
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/8 "2000-12-13T17:37:38Z")
I’ll be here waiting, Dodgy.
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### Author:  [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/9 "2000-12-13T17:46:09Z")
LOL THAT was NOT what I meant… and you know it 🙂
dodgy
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/10 "2000-12-13T17:47:58Z")
Damn. A bloke can hope though, can’t he?
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### Author:  [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/11 "2000-12-13T22:53:40Z")
I love taking pictures. I don’t have a digital camera though. I’m still working on getting myself a nice 35MM camera, possibly SLR. IMHO, the new APS cameras are the work of the devil.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/12 "2000-12-13T23:00:12Z")
BD, you continue to be one of my favorite dopers. Your contribution to pornography on the internet is hilarious!
And you have a very cute navel.
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### Author:  [@zyzzyva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zyzzyva)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2000, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/13 "2000-12-13T23:29:20Z")
Damn… sounds like you’ve got it worse than me. I just take pictures of various… uh… “scenes”. I say it like that for lack of a better word, not cuz i take naughty pix. A bunch are online too:
[http://members.nbci.com/zeppo/images/](http://members.nbci.com/zeppo/images/)
What kinda camera do you have? Mine’s a Nikon Coolpix 990.
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### Author:  [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/14 "2000-12-14T02:10:44Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by hypergirl \*
> \*\*I’m still working on getting myself a nice 35MM camera, possibly SLR. IMHO, the new APS cameras are the work of the devil. \*\*
One of his less talented henchmen, of the sort that usually works in marketing departments, I’d say.
Buy a Yashica T4 Super. For about 170 bucks you get glass of a quality not ordinarily found in SLR lenses costing several times that much, enough control over the flash to make it useful in nearly any lighting conditions, a waist-level viewfinder, true pocket size and excellent exposure control in a weatherproof package. Act fast though; Yashica’s discontinued it, unable to come to terms with Carl Zeiss for continued use of the Zeiss T\* lens.
Second choice for something inexpensive: Olympus Stylus Epic. About half the price of the T4. The lens isn’t a patch on the Zeiss in the Yashica, but it _is_ faster (f/2.8 vs. f/3.5 on the Yashica). It doesn’t have the waist-level viewfinder, either, but overall it compares well with the T4.
You do give up a lot of manual control with a point-and-shoot such as these, compared with the low end SLRs, but the best camera in the world can’t take good pictures when it’s at home in your closet. Both of these are small and light enough to have with you all the time, and taking good pictures is mostly about noticing something picture-worthy, paying attention to light and composition, and then burning a lot of film. The rest is mechanics.
Not that you asked, but . . . .
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### Author:  [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/15 "2000-12-14T02:42:17Z")
MR. Bear is sooooooooooo cute!!!
[the teddy bear, not purplebear’s husband. I’ve never met him.]
I am getting an slr camera for christmas!!! Whoohoo! I am gonna be so happy when I get it, because then I’ll have my own camera to use and mess around with.
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### Author:  [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2000, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-photo-addict/45337/16 "2000-12-14T17:35:24Z")
Sony Digital Handycam - it is my parents’ camera…
I ll miss it when I move…
damn will I miss it _sniffl_
but till then I ll definitely have made 3 or 4 million pictures… hehe
dodgy