As I’m 50 years old, my first meet with photo, happened on dinosaur era… When I was a child, my father was an enthusiast too, and he was a happy possessor of a camera, a Zeiss Ikon Contina one. ![mm01.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmX8K44MmGPb6kVcesVBPVZCeqqxHYVSrdTw23yDkJvhXf/mm01.png) Other ages, analog film, slides, all manual, sensibility, exposure calculations, distance evaluation, “hey what ! no sort of electronic control, really existed this !?!” will probably say someone who is in 20 years age. Yes, all manual, all was calculated and thoughtful by your mind, no help of any sort from devices or instruments, the cost of a photometer was so high that only professional photographer could effort to buy one. And when you ended a film cartridge of 36 exposures, you had to carry to a developing center and wait minimum a week to have back your photos. Scared and excited at the same time for the results of your shots.

https://steemitimages.com/DQma8u9Zv1yXdT26ZnpQ47yw44aoxhJ6EVsW5gAgjQB8sWF/mm02.png

Some years later, solved the problem, my father bought me a Polaroid instant camera. The era of instant view of what you portrayed, was there, but at the cost of black and white only.

Then becoming adult, the first (always analog) reflex, a Yashica 108. https://steemitimages.com/DQmX8XPnCG8tPcJhg6VCAqmcS889LuyNMRYdPJ5nGiugXmp/mm03.png With some lenses, a new world of taking pictures come to me, zoom to take closer details, or wide angle for panoramas, an exposure control, that helped, confirming what you shot, great improvement in creativity, and speed to take a photo.

Then, come the digital era, my first digital camera was an Epson photo PC, low resolution, but instant view of the result, and in color !!! “One small step for humanity, a giant leap for me…”.
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This is my first digital shot with it, when I bought it for Christmas. https://steemitimages.com/DQmZcXnFkLyt1BrHR4cqNLNZj8w2jDDRq5tTSayEUayH4pS/Foto0001.JPG Seems so stupid now, but at that time, the wonder of my fist digital photo, was so high.

Time passed away, and come the Reflex digital.
https://steemitimages.com/DQmXHCibGRWMoxtcMY3YKAfPSGZRFzFMx3ThS26fKeehWjN/mm05.png Still at work, and proud of it and what I can obtain with that gear. With the advent of digital photography, new techniques, like HDR, Time lapses, Long exposures, new way to interpret the subjective, and to find new creativity ways of shooting. Some compact camera, smartphones, and now also my last compact camera to carry always with me, “Hey, you don’t know when you can find a good subject to take a picture no ?” https://steemitimages.com/DQmW7LMRhfLPiryogc1o3jCGFnUUm34cAAtXkWgBsMbhovK/mm08.png

I still like to take some pictures, in manual mode, to add something to the shoot, but I do not mind sometimes to use the "program mode" and let the camera do it by itself. lazines happens...

Some of my best shots are at http://500px.com/cesmak, where I am a member by some years.

Thanks for reading my long story, new works and photos in the future also for steemit…

Cheers Marco.