How it started
This is how it all started. The year was 2003 when I bought this camera after having used to a good digital camera while working for a local newspaper. It was a Fuji FinePix S5000 with a 10x optical zoom and a whopping 3.2 megapixel censor, capable of 6 million pixels through interpolation.
I never thought photography would be my thing. I didn’t even care for the normal family snapshots. I wondered why would people take photos of the scenery in a holiday resort or the animals in a zoo – when it was so much easier to just buy a postcard. Actually, I didn’t think even that was necessary. After all the animals are the same everywhere and who wants to stare at some distant landscape from a crappy photo?
However, after trying to come up with creative photos for my newspaper articles I started seeing things differently. Gradually this tiny Fuji lured me outside and I found myself in the garden crawling after the ants or freezing my fingers trying to capture an icicle just right. Gradually my darling husband got used to his wife’s new oddity too and I no more had to answer to questions like “what on earth are you doing there?” accompanied with some serious eye-rolling.
Three years later I upgraded to a Sony DSC-H5 – via a very short de-tour named Canon Digital Ixus 50 which I hated. The Sony was a great piece and I got some very good shots with it and learned a lot. However, I soon couldn’t stand its slowness and it was time to upgrade again.
I bought my first DSLR (Canon EOS 400D) second hand in April, 2007. I used it with a kit lense and tried an old film-era 28-80 mm too but soon noticed that was only worth to be a fishing net weight. My first real zoom lens was a cheap Sigma apo 70-300 mm lens which despite its reputation took some very good photos if you knew how to use it.
The rest is history. After only a year I upgraded to Canon EOS 40D and loved it. The lens selection has evolved and from the original lenses only the net weight is still collecting dust in my shelf. And year 2009 was finished with a brand new Canon EOS 7D.
Some facts about me:
* I was born in Finland and never lived elsewhere
* I’m married and have two daughters, born 1996 and 2000
* My other hobbies are music, dogs (my doggy blog: Pepelandia) and horses
* I work as an IT-specialist in an in-house engineering company
