Hey guys know there are a bunch of you out there that like to take pictures of your bikes. What works best for you camera or set up wise? I have had good luck with 400 speed film over any other. I thought for a long time 800 would be better but it isn't for me, for action shots anyway. I use a Minolta 35mm with a 80-210 zoom, normally. It works good for what I do, its a little slow sometimes, and that might be operator error. So what works good for you?

 

I gave up on film & went digital!!
It's easier to manipulate & you can see what you shot right away.

Get at least a 3.3 Megapixl & you get great detail & they can be blown up a bunch & look great.

 

we have both a new digital 3.34 mega pixel nikon digital camera and a new film camera
digital is kinda a kewl but can be confusing at times works good cause you can use it with your computer and stuff

 

Digital works great! if:

1. You don't drop your $200 dollar camera and loose it while your riding at Little Sahara,Ok!
2. You don't buy another more expensive digital camera $400 dollars to replace the one you lost and tumble down a sand dune at Kermit and get sand in it. Camera #2 is in another state right now getting repaired! ( about $200 bucks to fix it!) so the $400 dollar replacement camera is now going to be a $600 dollar camera! + the $200 dollars lost on the first camera! $800 dollars! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Can I borrow your camera?

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I use a Sony Mavica FD75. Excellent camera. I wish we could attatch pics on this forum, but go to My Website to see some of the pics I took. MxDale71's Pics and the Swan Freestyle Pics are great. I also have new pics of my 250R posted over on ExRiders.com

Its a great camera and takes excellent pics. I do alot of pics for the business we do on eBay, and they are all fantastic.

 

I shoot digital video with a Sony handicam then extract any image I want with Video Wave 5, that way I don't have to make sure and snap at the right time. I get it all..

 

Ward,

I have to agree that Digital is the way to go. At least 3+ megapixels. I use a Sony DSC-S75 that has fully manual control. I can get pics at 1/1000 shutter speed so no problem for fast action shots. With digital you don't have to deal with film speed vs graininess etc... The truth is that most of my pics are taken in fully auto mode (except white balance which I set for outdoors when taking duning pics) but the manual is there for when I want to take a special shot.

8x10 prints come out way better than my pentax point & shoot 35mm camera by far. (the pentax is nothing to brag about anyway).

Almost every single pic on my site was taken with digital - most are the old Toshiba 2 megapixel but the last few trips were taken with theSony. Of course they are all shrunk WAY down and compressed but still the quality shows.

For the Video I have a decent Mini-DV cam and use firewire transfer to the computer - all digital. It can do stills but no video camera can compete to a dedicated still camera.

Oh, BTW... No film developing fees and you see your pic as soon as you took it. I'll never buy another roll of film.

 

I guess I just have that old timer syndrome, you know carbs are better than FI, that is why I don't have a digital camera. So how good of quality photos can you print? When we got this printer, I have now, they said it would produce GREAT pictures, I haven't found that to be true yet.

 

Well, I recently bought an Epson 820 6 color Inkjet. It produces very nice photos, I am impressed to say the least. The printer only cost $99. Using the right paper is an absolute must before you will get good prints. I would rate the quality easily as good as most P&S 35mm cameras but... with inkjet you will always have some minor issues and certain circumstances where it can't get it quite right but the majority of what is printed looks very much like a 35 mm print. The average person wouldn't know the difference.

There is nothing on the consumer market that I know of now that will replace or exceed high quality 35 mm prints but the gap is getting smaller and smaller.

What printer do you have, Ward?

 

Its a HP 1115. All of my pictures, that I print, turn out to be real grainy. This is also from scanned negatives or from scanned pictures. I use the best paper I can find, swithching to better paper help the tota; picture but its still grainy.