Just saying hello from Ohio. After reading the posts in this forum, it is clear that my "returning to film after [x] years" is a common story - but I'll tell it anyway.
I got interested in photography in Junior High, and my first camera was a Ricoh rangefinder that I got for Christmas in 1975 at age 12. I later moved on to Nikons, and throughout the 1980s and early 90s my main camera was the FE2. In 1996 I unfortunately lost most of my gear (FE2s, FA, FM, numerous lenses) in a moving mishap while living abroad - all I had left was an FG and a 50mm lens.
Instead of trying to replace it all, I moved on to the then current autofocus film Nikons, and in the early 00's made the switch to digital, starting with the D70.
But after 15 years of digital photography, I realized how much I missed the manual, film-camera experience, and this summer I started to recreate my line-up from the 1980s. First the FE2, then an FM2 and an FA. Even a Nikkormat FT2, the model a teacher had lent to me in High School when I was on the Yearbook photo staff. Because my local used camera store was - quite fortuitously - having a month-long 50% sale on Nikon camera bodies, I went a bit overboard and also bought an F and and F2, cameras I had never used but wanted to play around with.
I can't really justify six Nikon film cameras for the somewhat limited amount of mostly B&W work I am doing with them, but for now I am having a great deal of fun getting back to the kind of photography I was doing 30 years ago. I particularly enjoy using the FE2 - in addition to being a great camera, shooting with it brings back all sorts of memories of my twenties, when I rarely went anywhere without it.
Anyway, sorry for the long introduction. Glad to have found this site.
I got interested in photography in Junior High, and my first camera was a Ricoh rangefinder that I got for Christmas in 1975 at age 12. I later moved on to Nikons, and throughout the 1980s and early 90s my main camera was the FE2. In 1996 I unfortunately lost most of my gear (FE2s, FA, FM, numerous lenses) in a moving mishap while living abroad - all I had left was an FG and a 50mm lens.
Instead of trying to replace it all, I moved on to the then current autofocus film Nikons, and in the early 00's made the switch to digital, starting with the D70.
But after 15 years of digital photography, I realized how much I missed the manual, film-camera experience, and this summer I started to recreate my line-up from the 1980s. First the FE2, then an FM2 and an FA. Even a Nikkormat FT2, the model a teacher had lent to me in High School when I was on the Yearbook photo staff. Because my local used camera store was - quite fortuitously - having a month-long 50% sale on Nikon camera bodies, I went a bit overboard and also bought an F and and F2, cameras I had never used but wanted to play around with.
I can't really justify six Nikon film cameras for the somewhat limited amount of mostly B&W work I am doing with them, but for now I am having a great deal of fun getting back to the kind of photography I was doing 30 years ago. I particularly enjoy using the FE2 - in addition to being a great camera, shooting with it brings back all sorts of memories of my twenties, when I rarely went anywhere without it.
Anyway, sorry for the long introduction. Glad to have found this site.