I got my first camera (a 35mm point and shoot)for my 10th birthday, and it's taken me nearly 11 years of rather sporadic useage before I got another. Not true actually, I got a point and shoot digital 2 years ago, and it was this camera that prompted my new 35mm. It was this digi and the ease of use that helped me find out that a) that I really like taking pictures, b) what kind of pictures I like taking and c) that I needed far more control of the process. I also began to yearn for prints; having nearly 1400 digital images is on thing, but I also want something to hold and look at and most of all share.
My new toy is a Nikon F75 with a 28-100 f/3.5-5.6 G and a 70-300 f/4-5.6 G (as a student with other expensive hobbies I'm not made of money, I'll upgrade lenses after I graduate). I anticipate that this will be perfectly adequate for the next few years. I have run 8 films through so far and am achieving fairly pleasing results. Although I have learnt all the features of the camera, on most occasions I am allowing the camera to make the exposure decisions unless I have something specific in mind.
At university I will be joining the photographic club this year, so my pictures will mostly be black and white and I'll start printing my own. Up till now I have been an almost exclusively colour photographer. Of my 8 films so far, 2 have been B+W and I've had to think a lot harder about tone, lighting and subject. I have had good results but I do wonder if it's going to get easier to 'think in B+W'. Is it?
Cheers, Jonathan
My new toy is a Nikon F75 with a 28-100 f/3.5-5.6 G and a 70-300 f/4-5.6 G (as a student with other expensive hobbies I'm not made of money, I'll upgrade lenses after I graduate). I anticipate that this will be perfectly adequate for the next few years. I have run 8 films through so far and am achieving fairly pleasing results. Although I have learnt all the features of the camera, on most occasions I am allowing the camera to make the exposure decisions unless I have something specific in mind.
At university I will be joining the photographic club this year, so my pictures will mostly be black and white and I'll start printing my own. Up till now I have been an almost exclusively colour photographer. Of my 8 films so far, 2 have been B+W and I've had to think a lot harder about tone, lighting and subject. I have had good results but I do wonder if it's going to get easier to 'think in B+W'. Is it?
Cheers, Jonathan
