Rockport and Camden are pretty little towns on the Atlantic. Boothbay Harbor has many older houses that are very photograpical. Great seafood, too. The Old Port area of Portland has many old buildings, great restaurants and a lot of charm.
Definetly take A1A. Alabama Jacks has great bar food but the manatee's are the great part. They float by as you are eating. Marathon has many intresting places to eat with some real characters. Captain Tony's is Hemingways original bar, its just off Duval.
I had a friend ask me for a good starter. Costco had the Nikon 3400 package for $549 and I told him though I was a Nikon devotee, that in all honesty this was the best deal for what he wanted. He got it and is taking pictures of everything now.
I have a 50 1.4 and a 35 1.8 that I use on my crop sensors and on my DF. The 50 stays on the DF and the 35 is ideal on the croped.
Whatever, gives me a warm fuzzy feeeling to have a filter and a lens hood on. Feel like if I strike against something I have a better chance to survive.
I agree with par4fore. The 35mm is a much better choice as it gives a cropped camera the equivilent of a the old 35 mm camera's 50's.
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I used to work in a bank in NYC. We had a program to hire the diversified.
We put in digital time because so many couldn't tell time. Ran into problems at first who had learned the big hand and the small hand. But when we told them to go to lunch, they never came back until the next morning.
I started with a Minolta rangefinder and used manual all the time. Then got a Nikon F and used it all the time. When I got into digital, used programs more and more but when I got a 35MM lens I started back on the manual it was so much fun.
I had a tri colored collie that traveled everywhere with me. He got a lot of notice so I could take whatever pictures I wanted.
My son had a lot of success with a D90 and the 850 is great.
From Maryland, drive over to Charlottesville. The University is worth some great shots. Go on over to the mountains 20 miles away and drive down to Asheville, NC. Beautiful spot. Keep on going to the Great Smokies.
Sure hope you are hanging onto that F though. It is one of the all time greats.
My uncle was a photo enthusiast. Had several Leica's that he would use at Christmas gatherings and had a darkroom put into his new house. I was shooting with my Brownie and an old Kodak twin lens reflex and he saw some potential and gave me one of his older Leica's and I was hooked. He taught me how to process the film, do enlargements, things I really miss now.