Posts for: LMurray
Mar 22, 2019 23:47:25 #
DW wrote:
I’ve been doing some research, just interested in what you fine folks think. If money were no object and you were buying your first full-frame camera, would it be a DSLR or mirrorless? I’m looking at the D850 but just comparing it to the Z7.
Money was no object in the 70's when I had the choice of a Leica rangefinder or a Nikon FSLR specifically an FM, In the same situation today I'd still choose an SLR but now a DSLR. Personally I think mirrorless is fad like so many things that come along, seem like a good idea and then fade into obscurity.
Mar 10, 2019 20:32:25 #
jjanovy wrote:
I suggest getting a reasonably priced digital, maybe in a kit with a couple of lenses, then start taking pictures. Lots of pictures of things that interest you personally. Something like a Nikon D3400 or Canon equivalent should work just fine. The real issue is the interaction between your visual interests and the equipment, and something like the D3400 would make it easy to grow in terms of that interaction.
Did you read her post? She has a digital camera and lenses already.
Mar 7, 2019 22:47:33 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Right! I don't use a sun dial to tell the time; my car starts electrically, not with a crank; I don't carry water from a stream in buckets. Modern life is great! 
Of course all of those examples were true in the 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's when most of us were shooting manual cameras ie focus manually, set aperature and speed manually. I started shooting auto in the 90's. Auto cameras have only been around for what 20 years or so?
Feb 28, 2019 06:03:00 #
Hi first time "posting" (actually 2nd time now) but have lurked abou a year or so. Definitely more entertaining and as educational (in a different way) than Nikonians, where I also mostly lurk.
Brief background: former art major primarily oils and watercolors, some sculpture got heavily into photograhy in 70s with an FM from that to 8008 briefly then N70, F100, D300 to D800E. Also an F2, F3, F4 and FM3a bought because I wanted them, lately shot a few rolls, but film has changed and gotten expensive, not to mention all the Pro Labs seem to be gone. Also have a Zenza Bronica medium format and had a Mamiya medium format but put it and the 80mm on ebay, still have two lenses. The 800 will be my last it does everything I want and is capable of more, face it all you really need id a light tight box with a hole in it, I keep threatening to get a pin hole but haven't yet. About 12-15 lenes last few years use mostly 17-35 f2.8 and 28-70 f2.8 for land/seascapes flowers wildlife birds. I shoot for art but get a lot, a lot of snapshots and record shots which is cheaper in digital than it was in film.
My pet peeve? Two, 1. the term "nifty fifty" my first Nikkor lens a 50mm f2.0, surprisingly good. 2. The term or catagory or whatever: DSLR, whether film or digital they're all SLR's. Just my opinion. Anyway started to be brief, but thats me 71 and still going. Sorry to be such a windbag.
Lee Murray
Brief background: former art major primarily oils and watercolors, some sculpture got heavily into photograhy in 70s with an FM from that to 8008 briefly then N70, F100, D300 to D800E. Also an F2, F3, F4 and FM3a bought because I wanted them, lately shot a few rolls, but film has changed and gotten expensive, not to mention all the Pro Labs seem to be gone. Also have a Zenza Bronica medium format and had a Mamiya medium format but put it and the 80mm on ebay, still have two lenses. The 800 will be my last it does everything I want and is capable of more, face it all you really need id a light tight box with a hole in it, I keep threatening to get a pin hole but haven't yet. About 12-15 lenes last few years use mostly 17-35 f2.8 and 28-70 f2.8 for land/seascapes flowers wildlife birds. I shoot for art but get a lot, a lot of snapshots and record shots which is cheaper in digital than it was in film.
My pet peeve? Two, 1. the term "nifty fifty" my first Nikkor lens a 50mm f2.0, surprisingly good. 2. The term or catagory or whatever: DSLR, whether film or digital they're all SLR's. Just my opinion. Anyway started to be brief, but thats me 71 and still going. Sorry to be such a windbag.
Lee Murray
Feb 27, 2019 22:20:37 #
Patek Phillippe shows the same time as both but with class. :)
Hi first time "posting" but have lurked abou a year or so. Definitely more entertaining and as educational (in a different way) than Nikonians, where I also mostly lurk.
Brief background: former art major primarily oils and watercolors, some sculpture got heavily into photograhy in 70s with an FM from that to 8008 briefly then N70, F100, D300 to D800E. Also an F2, F3, F4 and FM3a bought because I wanted them, lately shot a few rolls, but film has changed and gotten expensive, not to mention all the Pro Labs seem to be gone. Also have a Zenza Bronica medium format and had a Mamiya medium format but put it and the 80mm on ebay, still have two lenses. The 800 will be my last it does everything I want and is capable of more, face it all you really need id a light tight box with a hole in it, I keep threatening to get a pin hole but haven't yet. About 12-15 lenes last few years use mostly 17-35 f2.8 and 28-70 f2.8 for land/seascapes flowers wildlife birds. I shoot for art but get a lot, a lot of snapshots and record shots which is cheaper in digital than it was in film.
My pet peeve? Two, 1. the term "nifty fifty" my first Nikkor lens a 50mm f2.0, surprisingly good. 2. The term or catagory or whatever: DSLR, whether film or digital they're all SLR's. Just my opinion. Anyway started to be brief, but thats me 71 and still going. Sorry to be such a windbag.
Lee Murray
Hi first time "posting" but have lurked abou a year or so. Definitely more entertaining and as educational (in a different way) than Nikonians, where I also mostly lurk.
Brief background: former art major primarily oils and watercolors, some sculpture got heavily into photograhy in 70s with an FM from that to 8008 briefly then N70, F100, D300 to D800E. Also an F2, F3, F4 and FM3a bought because I wanted them, lately shot a few rolls, but film has changed and gotten expensive, not to mention all the Pro Labs seem to be gone. Also have a Zenza Bronica medium format and had a Mamiya medium format but put it and the 80mm on ebay, still have two lenses. The 800 will be my last it does everything I want and is capable of more, face it all you really need id a light tight box with a hole in it, I keep threatening to get a pin hole but haven't yet. About 12-15 lenes last few years use mostly 17-35 f2.8 and 28-70 f2.8 for land/seascapes flowers wildlife birds. I shoot for art but get a lot, a lot of snapshots and record shots which is cheaper in digital than it was in film.
My pet peeve? Two, 1. the term "nifty fifty" my first Nikkor lens a 50mm f2.0, surprisingly good. 2. The term or catagory or whatever: DSLR, whether film or digital they're all SLR's. Just my opinion. Anyway started to be brief, but thats me 71 and still going. Sorry to be such a windbag.
Lee Murray