Kodiak1314: Greetings to you all....I am glad to be a new member here and look forward to learning much from this site. I have already been following the UHH daily posting for some...

kodiak1314 Loc: South Bend, Ind.

Greetings to you all....I am glad to be a new member here and look forward to learning much from this site. I have already been following the UHH daily posting for some time delivered to my email box. I am a 66 year old geezer who has been in and out of photography for the better part of my life. Got started in H.S. as a school newspaper and yearbook photog, had my own darkroom but stayed mostly in the B&W side of things as color seemed way to expensive and complicated....plus I just like B&W better. Stayed with it after school doing weddings and family reunions kids birthday parties and the like worked at the retail end of things for a few years back in the mid seventies. Life...a wife....kids all came along and the cameras got pushed aside for some time but never completely out of mind! So now I am at the age to pick the cameras back up and start again. My only camera that I have now is a Sony A 350 sort of a dinosaur but I like it and have figured it out for the most part! Having decided to renew my interest in cameras and photography I have come to a cross roads....I am looking at the Intrepid 4X5 view camera and going after the larger format B&W path or going further into digital and thinking about the Sony A 7 II or A 6300 unfortunately I do not have the $$$ to go both ways. I am sort of leaning towards the Sony cameras as this is where I believe photography is always going to be headed from now on....however I cut my teeth on film and the darkroom experience and have great memories of those times in the dark room. What to do, I'm not sure and I'm really not looking for a fast answer or a sure path to go down just thinking about the options and putting my history up here for an introduction. At any rate glad to be here and will probably post a few pictures as I find them to be worthy of sharing with folks, I would say that I am mostly interested in landscape and nature stuff now....really don't think I could do another kids birthday party at this stage of my life and weddings are all digital with video at this point so don't think I will go there! That's all for now....I come in peace....live long and prosper....God hates a coward!

Blair Shaw Jr Loc: Dunnellon,Florida

kodiak1314 wrote:

Greetings to you all....I am glad to be a new member here and look forward to learning much from this site. I have already been following the UHH daily posting for some time delivered to my email box. I am a 66 year old geezer who has been in and out of photography for the better part of my life. Got started in H.S. as a school newspaper and yearbook photog, had my own darkroom but stayed mostly in the B&W side of things as color seemed way to expensive and complicated....plus I just like B&W better. Stayed with it after school doing weddings and family reunions kids birthday parties and the like worked at the retail end of things for a few years back in the mid seventies. Life...a wife....kids all came along and the cameras got pushed aside for some time but never completely out of mind! So now I am at the age to pick the cameras back up and start again. My only camera that I have now is a Sony A 350 sort of a dinosaur but I like it and have figured it out for the most part! Having decided to renew my interest in cameras and photography I have come to a cross roads....I am looking at the Intrepid 4X5 view camera and going after the larger format B&W path or going further into digital and thinking about the Sony A 7 II or A 6300 unfortunately I do not have the $$$ to go both ways. I am sort of leaning towards the Sony cameras as this is where I believe photography is always going to be headed from now on....however I cut my teeth on film and the darkroom experience and have great memories of those times in the dark room. What to do, I'm not sure and I'm really not looking for a fast answer or a sure path to go down just thinking about the options and putting my history up here for an introduction. At any rate glad to be here and will probably post a few pictures as I find them to be worthy of sharing with folks, I would say that I am mostly interested in landscape and nature stuff now....really don't think I could do another kids birthday party at this stage of my life and weddings are all digital with video at this point so don't think I will go there! That's all for now....I come in peace....live long and prosper....God hates a coward!

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Welcome Kodak1314 and good luck to you. After you learn digital, you'll never go back to the darkroom except for special projects and tutorials to the younger sets. I sold all of my darkroom equipment last fall and only kept my medium format rig and a few old 35mm from WWII and I have a local lab do my processing of their residuals as needed. You will thoroughly enjoy scanning old prints & negatives and retouching them in LR or some post process format to get special effects as many have done .This forum is the best place for the learning curve on that topic. Good luck to you.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Welcome to the forum.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Welcome. Have fun.

Vince68 Loc: Wappingers Falls, NY

Welcome to UHH.

jdub82 Loc: Northern California

Welcome to UHH! If you decide to go for one of the Sony cameras, choosing one of their slightly older models
(such as the two models you mentioned) will save you some $$. Sony often continues to sell their older models as new, while dropping the price.