Hell everyone,
I am a 32 years old happily married man with a one year old daughter living in Istanbul. I have been working as a full time financial reporting specialist in corporate world for the last 8-9 years. My interest in photography started two years ago with buying a Nikon D5000 DSLR. I was aiming to buy a point-and-shoot camera to document our trip to NYC and once I was in B&H I saw this camera in refurbished department with a good price and thought why not try it. After taking breath taking pictures (which I thought they were at the time lol ) I said i want to pursue this as a hobby. I took couple of photography classes and bought some gear which some of them later turned out to be bad investments. Eventhough I tought I learned fair amount of things I never got to achieve taking the pictures I want and everytime I tried to learn what's wrong I kept getting lectured about buying a new camera or another gadget by digital photography enthusiasts. Then I thought to myself if I keep listening to this I have to keep spending the entire household income just to take better pictures.
I honestly don't consider myself as a person who posseses skills to become an artist nor do I have what it takes to become a great photographer one day. To me photography is a way of adding meaning to life and be creative, look or see differently as well as immortalize special moments of the people I love in the best possible way.
Anyway one day I was doing a research on exposure -which I happen to make mistakes quite often in that area- I read that digital cameras are not as forgiving as the film cameras so off I went reading and watching things about film photography, try to learn the advantages of shooting film. First thing I learned was every film camera is a full frame
That stroke me as how profoundly little I know about photography in general. I was so wrapped up in a buble of consumer culture that I ignored the fundementals. I didn't know that I need to buy seperate films for different ISOs or B&W. I've probably gotten far better in photoshop then I did in taking good images. I learned how to get rid of blemishes on skin but didn't exactly understand how light actually works. There was another problem, I kept taking so many pictures thinking I will correct them later which turned out to be a bigger problem as I simply don't have enough time to do that. Because it didn't cost anything I take pictures unconciously.
For several other reasons in addition to these I recently took interest in getting into analog photography. I especially like B&W and thinking to get into that first. I will probably don't give up on my DSLR at first as it will play a role for me for a foreseeble future. I am certainly not a purist or a romantic, I simply want to take better pictures without spending my daughters college tuition and also disipline myself to look for a better image rather than taking random images.
I am looking for the possibilities of using an SLR along with my existing dSLR. I am thinking to buy a Nikon F80 so that the lenses I currently have would fit and also provide me AF (I've tried manual focus it is just not for me).
I'd like to have your comments and recommendations in entering the analog photography world.
All the best
I am a 32 years old happily married man with a one year old daughter living in Istanbul. I have been working as a full time financial reporting specialist in corporate world for the last 8-9 years. My interest in photography started two years ago with buying a Nikon D5000 DSLR. I was aiming to buy a point-and-shoot camera to document our trip to NYC and once I was in B&H I saw this camera in refurbished department with a good price and thought why not try it. After taking breath taking pictures (which I thought they were at the time lol ) I said i want to pursue this as a hobby. I took couple of photography classes and bought some gear which some of them later turned out to be bad investments. Eventhough I tought I learned fair amount of things I never got to achieve taking the pictures I want and everytime I tried to learn what's wrong I kept getting lectured about buying a new camera or another gadget by digital photography enthusiasts. Then I thought to myself if I keep listening to this I have to keep spending the entire household income just to take better pictures.
I honestly don't consider myself as a person who posseses skills to become an artist nor do I have what it takes to become a great photographer one day. To me photography is a way of adding meaning to life and be creative, look or see differently as well as immortalize special moments of the people I love in the best possible way.
Anyway one day I was doing a research on exposure -which I happen to make mistakes quite often in that area- I read that digital cameras are not as forgiving as the film cameras so off I went reading and watching things about film photography, try to learn the advantages of shooting film. First thing I learned was every film camera is a full frame
That stroke me as how profoundly little I know about photography in general. I was so wrapped up in a buble of consumer culture that I ignored the fundementals. I didn't know that I need to buy seperate films for different ISOs or B&W. I've probably gotten far better in photoshop then I did in taking good images. I learned how to get rid of blemishes on skin but didn't exactly understand how light actually works. There was another problem, I kept taking so many pictures thinking I will correct them later which turned out to be a bigger problem as I simply don't have enough time to do that. Because it didn't cost anything I take pictures unconciously. For several other reasons in addition to these I recently took interest in getting into analog photography. I especially like B&W and thinking to get into that first. I will probably don't give up on my DSLR at first as it will play a role for me for a foreseeble future. I am certainly not a purist or a romantic, I simply want to take better pictures without spending my daughters college tuition and also disipline myself to look for a better image rather than taking random images.
I am looking for the possibilities of using an SLR along with my existing dSLR. I am thinking to buy a Nikon F80 so that the lenses I currently have would fit and also provide me AF (I've tried manual focus it is just not for me).
I'd like to have your comments and recommendations in entering the analog photography world.
All the best
