Photography

For Christmas in 1992, I got my first camera. It was a little purple rectangle and used those film rolls that look like the modern day voicemail icon. I've been hooked ever since. In 1998, I bought a Kodak DC200. Not the Plus model, I couldn't afford the $100 premium for its 3x zoom.Since then, I've continued to upgrade to newer cameras every few years, but I never put much effort into my actual photography skills. I always just assumed that more expensive cameras with better zoom lenses simply took better photos, and that all those fancy words like aperture, ISO, were never going to be something I actually needed to understand.It's now 2025, and I still have a physical album full of prints from that old purple camera. I even have envelopes with some of the original film negatives.