I thought you might have been asking on her behalf as she has just aquired the 5d , RAW is not a format many ppl shoot in as most think it's too fiddly.
For shots for lasering etc , just about any 1/2 decent 3+ mpixel point and shoot will do.
My interest is mainly personal , Photography has been one of my hobbies since I got my first Camera , and that is a story in itself.
I was failing maths in standard 8 or near to failing , my parents were concerned , to cut a long story short , I made my dad sign an undertaking that if I got an A (over 80%) at the end of the year , he would get me a konica T3 slr - was 1973 I think - I came top of the whole grade (120 ppl) and got my A and got my SLR - never worked harder at anything in my life as that!!
In my school holidays I used to work in a custom developing lab and as a gofer for a very good pro photgrapher , so learnt a ton.
I used to enter competitions and have sold a few images to stock agencies , but these days mainly use my Canon stuff for pleasure and at work for our large format digital printing operation where I do a lot of studio type product shots for various applications like backlit displays , point of sale displays , Posters , vehicle wraps , billboards and the like. I also just like the gear and owning it and use the work application as justification for getting it.
South Africa and Cape Town , where I live , is a photgraphers paradise , as a family we go out one day most weekends to a place where I can shoot something and the rest of my family can enjoy. |