YASHICA to NIKON D90…..

It was during my high school I actually started photography, not very serious though. But I used to enjoy clicking photographs than being clicked. I used to use an autofocus YASHICA camera which belongs to my uncle. As a kid I even used to enjoy jus firing the flash when there is no film loaded in the camera. Once I smuggled this camera in to my boarding school, and we a group of friends went (of course without the knowledge of school authority) for trekking where I had my share of fun in photography. Here is my YASHICA.. It’s still alive,


Later, I was introduced to a SLR camera by a friend from Baroda Fine Arts College in 2003; that is when I started liking photography more. I couldn’t afford to take photography as a hobby but I managed to do it once in a while as I get some money to buy films. It was around that time Digital cameras started appearing in public. I still remember in 2004, when I was doing the Design foundation in National institute of design there was only one digital camera in the entire batch of sixty students; by the time we all completed our graduation, I guess, more than half of the students have their own digital cameras. If I include mobile cameras, probably almost everyone has personal cameras now.
I bought my Fist camera in December 2008, 2 days before my graduation day. NIKON D90. Now I have been using this camera since few months, and I am loving it.
Here are some key features of Nikon D90

• 12.9 megapixel DX-format CMOS sensor (effective pixels: 12.3 million)
• 3.0-inch 920,000 pixel (VGA x 3 colors) TFT-LCD (same as D3 and D300)
• Live View with contrast-detect AF, face detection
• Image sensor cleaning (sensor shake)
• Illuminated focus points
• Movie capture at up to 1280 x 720 (720p) 24 fps with mono sound
• IS0 200-3200 range (100-6400 expanded)
• 4.5 frames per second continuous shooting (buffer: 7 RAW, 25 JPEG fine, 100 JPEG Normal)
• Expeed image processing engine
• 3D tracking AF (11 point)
• Short startup time, viewfinder blackout and shutter lag
• Slightly improved viewfinder (96% frame coverage)
• Extensive in-camera retouching including raw development and straightening
• Improved user interface
• New optional compact GPS unit (fits on hot shoe)
• Same battery and vertical grip as D80
• Vignetting control in-camera
• 72 thumbnail and calendar view in playback

A paper camera that gives instant prints

This post is about one of my favorite childhood cameras;a camera that can take portraits just the way you want and this can be made easily at home.
After my first camera, I switched to a better camera for better photography during my school days. A completely paper made camera which even delivers photographs. But there is a slight difference from other cameras; here you need to insert the prints in to the camera before subjects being photographed. I remember drawing funny pictures, probably of a monkey or even weirder things to keep inside the camera before I clicked a portrait. Sometimes I even used to keep small portraits of celebrities cut from news papers. There is something I understood from this origami camera and its instant print technology; if given a chance, everybody wants to represent beauty. Otherwise why would people come and hit me/beat me/abuse me whenever I deliver a 'monkey face' picture after they pose for a photograph? :) . I think this way portrait photography is more risky since the subject can respond back emotionally. In the case of portraits, many a times people have too many expectations from the photographer or from the latest technology.No matter how they look,when it comes to beauty, people keep expectations even it is a camera made from a piece of paper. Who in the world would like portray drawbacks if there is an option to hide it to enhance beauty? Probably, it’s because of that, somebody recommended me to wear a biker helmet for my best portrait shot. :) . Any way this is how an origami camera would look like from front side.


If anybody wants to upgrade your cameras to this 'super paper camera', this is how it is made. The video is shot with Nikon D90.


how to fold an origami camera from dhaneeshkj on Vimeo.