Zoe Hellar and Digital Camera Reviews 

My Name is Zoe Hellar, I havemainly grown up in London and now living inAustralia. I absolutley love techie things , especially digital photography. I grew up with using cameras from the days of film. My first camera was the ever affordable East German manufactured Practica, and from then on moved up to a Pentax Program A. 

I then wanted to understand all the concepts of photography and ended up creating my own dark room and developing/printing my own black and white photographs.

I got so involved in Photography with my new found family of lenses, tripod and tint filters, that I was taking my camera everywhere I went. Needless to say , I used to go to concerts, parties, days out and finally realising that I was not really enjoying the event but spending most of my time looking through a viewfinder.

This alll changed when I decided to sell all my gear and purchase my first instamatic, whichwas still film based. Digital photography still had not yet been invented. 

My first instamatic was special . It was a waterproof Vivitar which I could take everywhere. It was fantastic. The only let down was that you did not have the adjustment flexibility that you have now with digital pocket cameras. This camera turned form being a good friend to a damnenemy. i was taking a photo of a chum of mine while I wass in the water and he was coming off a water chute. He came off at great speed wherby his leg ended up in the lens as I held my camera to my face. The camera hit my head with such force that I needed stiches. (You can stil see the word "Vivitar" printed backwards on my forehead.)

Then the world of digital came. I got disinterested fo a few years until the manufacturers settled down after winning the marketing battles associated to formats, technologies ( a bit like the Betamax versus Vhs war).

The beauty of today's digital camera market is that there are now even more options to the customer as electronic manufactures as well as camera manufacturers fight for a big share of this market. Gone are the days when Casio were renowned for making just calculators.

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Thanks for showing an interest.

Zoe