some details about some cameras

I would have wanted to compile this list of "reviews" already a long time ago.. but as always: if you don't just begin a project, than you just won't proceed with it anyways. So t I finally did...:)

First of all: I do like small devices - and among the small devices, cameras are probably my dearest. I don't really praise(?!?) them, build little temples around them or other fetish like activities - but I do like them, and I do keep them in a dry place, next to the Kubrick DVD Collection, always ready to take some more pictures.. (which doesn't automatically mean that I have a slightest clue wich one one them would actually still operate correctlyand) ..andsometimes I even draw a little 32x32 pixel icon for them. .
I know, I am not the only one who likes cameras and it's is probably also not the most cunning(?!?) hobby to 'collect' cameras. I must say that I do also know some people who do have a much more sofisticated obsession for cameras, e.g. for cameras with two or three or even hundrets of lenses! But since the Bilderbook is somehow based on my 'camera history' I finally just had to write this little personal camera history down.

Well. Here we go.

Once upon a time..
.. I probably bought my first digital camera in 1998 - although I am actually not 100% shure about this. Before this I used to use a variety of different cameras - of which I'll only shortly list a few..:

• Agfa: "Agfamatic 2008", a sweet little Pocket Camera, sometimes called "Ritsch-Ratsch-Camera" due to the sound it makes when you transport the film to the next picture (my first camera)
  
  
• Voigtländer: "Vito CL" with a 50mm/2.8 ~lense (my first 'real' camera)
  
  
• Pentax
  
  
• Nikon 603e
  
  
• ...
  
  

well - enough of the cameras I used before 1999. All of these 'analog cameras' are still in the shelf next to me.. (exept for the really nice Nikon 603e which I left in a Taxi in Cologne one night) ..and so I can just update this list at any time.. `.´ ..and go on with the cameras I used since then..:

Since 1999, or in other words: since I run this website, I only used these four cameras:

the"Lomo": a LOMO Minitar 1 ..with all it's advances and disadvances: a 32mm lense that allows a 1:2.8 - and a half automatic exposure mechanism that just might blow your mind! the "Digi Cam": an Olympus Camedia C-840L with incredible 1.3 Megapixels. My first digital camera - which is basically also the reason why I started Bilderbook the "Nikon": a Nikon Coolpix 995 3.34 Megapixels, with it's amazing axis, that let's you look at things from different angles that other cameras the "Mobile-Cam": a NOKIA 6600 mobile phone with a built in VGA-Camera (640x480) and a 32MByte extra 'disk space' on this MMC-Chip, which is actually called Multi Media Card.

Well - those are the cams, my friend, that made the Bilderbook what it is today: my cute little Mega-Dump for all kinds of every day pictures..:) ..frther details will be added soon - of course.