SURELY you'd already have one....

[Bathsheba]

Someone on our freecycle looking for a digital camera because he is "a photography student and could do with one"...

I'm guessing maybe what is termed a "photography student" isn't what I imagined - we have an art school and I'd expect someone calling themselves a photography student to be enrolled there doing a professional course...

I suspect someone has signed up for a 6 week evening class in Digital photography and has realised a fatal flaw in their plan....

hmm I'm not sure it depends.

A suprising number of people still have non-digital cameras. My dad still prefers his 35mm Nikons to his Digital ones (all professional "models".

i suppose it is possible that someone has been doing serious photography with a 35mm camera and has signed up for a course but now needs a digital one.

although the quality of camera needed for a proper photography course would be more substantial than one I'd expect to be found to be given away on freecycle...........

well, actually i would expect a photography student to use a real film camera

photography at our local college involves learning how to develop prints etc etc

i guess maybe that's what he's doing, but there is also now the digital aspect so he wants a digital one as well?

He could be doing it at GCSE. Schoolchildren call themselves students these days. . Maybe he's been using his mum's and she's pissed off with not being able to find her camera. YABU.

I prefer my trusty old 35mm camera - nowt quite like whiling away a few hours in the darkroom and the magic of watching prints appear when you develop them.

OK so I'm a freak with an obsession with black and white photography, particularly things like push processed film which I've never yet managed to decently replicate digitally. There's just something wonderful about film and I get to be a sad bunny that it's such a dying art!

Someone on our local freecycle was looking for an entire set of digital cameras to put on tables for weddings because they didn't want to have to pay to develop disposables!

Who's Shirley?

actually I'd expect a "seious" photography these days to have both a decent 35mmm and and SLR (not a compact). As most pro's these days use digital in their day to day work I should imagine that any decent course involves a lot of work with digital photography too.

you aren't the only freak emptyshell

dp is always moaning at me not to take black and white shots of the children because it isn't "proper" black and white. so i have to take all pics in colour and he will make them properly black and white. which, as you say, isn't always that easy with digital media

i blame his parents. their bathroom also doubles as a dark room lol

oh god thisisyesterday that brings back horrific nightmares from my (very young) childhood.

My dad used to spend majority of his time at home doing his photography - which involved using the bathroom (as it was HUGE) as a dark room.

We had no other toilet (I think there may have been one still "there" in the outside shed - but it was never used).

We'd have to go and knock on the neighbours door to use the toilet which was an extremely regular occurence in the time we lived there

You can make "proper" black and white.........if you're willing to spend stupid a hell of a lot on the software