35mm Film SLR Camera vs D-SLR Camera

Just recently I found my dad's old Minolta 35mm SLR camera. It is my new pride and joy! I absolutly love it. I've never been very involved with photography in the past. I mean I take pictures with a digital camera that is less than good quality and its mostly of just friends being wild, but with this camera I feel like I can do so much more. I try to capture moments of beauty in my eyes as corny as that sounds. I love the different features that I can mess around with like shutterspeed and apperture. It's definitly a fun new hobby that I've found. But the problem is the world of technology has spoiled me. With a digital camera you can take the photo, review it, put it on your computer, tamper with it, and come out with a completely different picutre than what you started with. With a 35mm camera, you take a picture and hope that you had your settings right, you didn't move the camera, and that it's a clear picutre. Then you have to wait until your film roll is done and take it to somewhere that can develop them which is a difficulty in itself to find someone who still develops it. Some people get them developed into prints but with that you get prints that may have turned out awful or you just don't like them and it's rather expensive to get just one roll developed. I like to have them put my pictures on a cd so that I can put them on the computer and toy with them and then have the ones that I like printed. It's cheaper this way too. But not as cheap and convenient as having a Digital D-SLR camera. Although they pose to be steep in price, they appear to be a better photography buy in the long run. In the future I would like to look into purchasing one of these cameras but as for now I'm quite happy with my 35mm film camera. After this assignment is over I plan on using this blog as a photography blog where I'll post my recent photos that I've taken. So keep scoping out my blog and let me know what you think!

Geocaching

My cousin introduced me to this thing called Geocaching at our Easter family gathering. He told me that you could go to the website, put in your zip code and it would spit out different GPS coordinates of these "caches" around you. These caches are little things that people put at the different coordinates and people can go find them. My cousin said he found one and it was a box that you could sign your name in and either put something in it or take something out of it. It's so neat what you can do with a GPS. If your interested and want to learn more you can go to the website at www.geocaching.com

Health Topic: Breast Cancer

For a few of my projects in Tech I have used breast cancer as my health topic. Just recently for my Biology class I had to find an article for a writing assignment and I found one regarding women getting a mastectomy. A mastectomy is the removal of the breast. This article was from Time Magazine and was saying that they did a study and that having a mastectomy isn't always the best option. They showed that the survival rate had almost no difference whether the patient had a mastectomy or kept their breast. This study will let women make the decision on what they think is more important since keeping the breast and the mastectomy are both equally effective.

SRU Volleyball goes to IUP

I'm on the SRU volleyball team and we took a trip to IUP on Saturday for a tournament. There were 11 teams there including us. St. Vincent College and AB University were in our pool. We beat St. Vincent 3 games and AB 2 games to make us the top of our pool. We got to go to the top bracket where it became single elimination and we played the best of three games. We played Clarion University our first match but lost in two games to be eliminated. All-in-all though it was a very good tournament for our team.