Comments on: It would only be two weeks between the time I got my first SLR digital camera, and the last run of VIA 85. I experimented with film SLR (Slides and prints) for a few months prior and I believe my reasoning was to get a digital so I could shoot the ‘piss’ out of this while I still could and avoid the costs and bother of film. So I pretty much shot this train every day for two weeks: Mostly to capture what I could but also to make up for my crappy camera that I had outgrown but just couldn’t afford to replace. $3000 ($6000 in today’s money) got me a Nikon D70 with 6 megapixels a 64 meg memory card. Today you can get this camera for 50-100 bucks. By comparison my first car cost me $10,000 in 2001 and it was used. In 2010-2012 I dropped a car’s worth of money on camera gear and never looked back. Still rocking most of that gear today. What’s your camera gear story? Film or digital – post below :) http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:52:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Eric May http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=57873#comment-66317 Eric May Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:47:49 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/RPCA_85-_STRSCH_3494.jpg#comment-66317 I switched to digital in 2005 as I wasn't happy with the film processing results I was getting. I have worn out four point & shoot cameras so far, currently using a relatively compact Canon SX740. I love being able to shoot as many frames as I want. In my younger days, film was expensive and I was broke so a lot of long gone things didn't get recorded. I switched to digital in 2005 as I wasn’t happy with the film processing results I was getting. I have worn out four point & shoot cameras so far, currently using a relatively compact Canon SX740. I love being able to shoot as many frames as I want. In my younger days, film was expensive and I was broke so a lot of long gone things didn’t get recorded.

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