My photographic interest began in earnest 1987 as I got an Canon EOS 650 which I promptly upgraded to an EOS 600 (semi-pro model). I never felt the need to exchange that camera for any of the latter EOS models, the only one tempting me was the EOS 1 - too expensive.
I worked five years in the image processing laboratory at the Linkoping Unversity here in Linkoping (Sweden). My main interests were color space computations, fast animated 3D visualisation of nuclear medicine (SPECT) images and image synthesis (raytracing, radiosity, light illumination models). I took various graduate level courses about anything and everything in computer graphics, computer vision, color, the eye & brain, medical imaging, graphics and color for press and print. I also tought courses in computer graphics and image processing.
In the summer 1999 the Nikon Coolpix 950 came into my hands and stayed there! The EOS system has since mostly collected dust... Why? Oh, the coolpix is very handy, it is small and the the swivel lens is VERY useful, but foremost the pictures I get is very good. I have become both a better photographer as well as a more frequent (addictive) one by using the coolpix.
As soon as the CP990 came out I upgraded to that and sold the CP950. That was a small but anyhow good step forward, the added resolution and some bug fixes were very welcome.
In july 2001 I received my Minolta Dimage D7. Wow! What a
camera. Every detail that irritated me when using the CP990 the D7
solves or doesnīt have. The D7 is a very nice camera. Some complain
about how it looks, and I canīt understand what they are talking
about, the D7 looks like a camera to me, more so than the
CP990... But, who cares? The D7 isnīt the