Hi all,
I got my first camera in 1960 (a Kodak Brownie Starlet) and switched to digital when I thought compacts were tomorrow's solution to everything, so my Konica Big Mini was replaced by a Konica KD-500, that I used for years, till it simply fell apart. As a young man, I used Rolleiflex 3.5, Edixa Reflex, Sinar, Polaroid, Mamiya SLR, Canon Pellix, Nikon F, Minox 35s (I loved those), and a heap of other cameras over the decades. A Pentax K-x was the first DSLR, followed by a K-7 and a K-5, and these I used after I met my wife (been married for over 20 years), long after my time as editor, journalist, and editor-in-chief, by the way.
The most important change for me as a photographer happened when a Nikon 1 V1 ended up in my lap, but that's another story (I am pretty often at the Nikon 1 Talk group at DPReview.com, possibly over 10,000 times, but, in total, I'm at around 16,500 just there).
My main interests are things that fly, like birds, aircraft (model and full-size), and foiled vessels, plus my family here in Sweden, Denmark, and Thailand (which is a birdwatcher's paradise). I definitely like to tinker with things, like motorbikes and model aircraft; I like to draw and edit text and images. I photograph what I'm interested in, sometimes using macro, sometimes using very long lenses, if one includes crop factors and TCs (around 2.3 meters equivalent). I mainly use FX, DX, and 1" cameras, using F Mount lenses, mainly.
I got my first camera in 1960 (a Kodak Brownie Starlet) and switched to digital when I thought compacts were tomorrow's solution to everything, so my Konica Big Mini was replaced by a Konica KD-500, that I used for years, till it simply fell apart. As a young man, I used Rolleiflex 3.5, Edixa Reflex, Sinar, Polaroid, Mamiya SLR, Canon Pellix, Nikon F, Minox 35s (I loved those), and a heap of other cameras over the decades. A Pentax K-x was the first DSLR, followed by a K-7 and a K-5, and these I used after I met my wife (been married for over 20 years), long after my time as editor, journalist, and editor-in-chief, by the way.
The most important change for me as a photographer happened when a Nikon 1 V1 ended up in my lap, but that's another story (I am pretty often at the Nikon 1 Talk group at DPReview.com, possibly over 10,000 times, but, in total, I'm at around 16,500 just there).
My main interests are things that fly, like birds, aircraft (model and full-size), and foiled vessels, plus my family here in Sweden, Denmark, and Thailand (which is a birdwatcher's paradise). I definitely like to tinker with things, like motorbikes and model aircraft; I like to draw and edit text and images. I photograph what I'm interested in, sometimes using macro, sometimes using very long lenses, if one includes crop factors and TCs (around 2.3 meters equivalent). I mainly use FX, DX, and 1" cameras, using F Mount lenses, mainly.