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Round about two years ago I bought myself my first camera, a Pentax K-r and a cpl of cheap lenses to start with. The idea was to be able to get nice pictures of family, friends and on vacations. I had no interest in taking on a photo hobby, no thoughts about photographic arts, not even an interest in photography or photo arts at all.
It took a cpl of weeks, and I was hooked. About a month after I bought that K-r, it started to behave really strange and became unusable (something with the shutter mechanism and aperture mechanism that apparently seems to be kind of an standard problem for that body), so I had to send it in for repair.
What happened next was frustration, as it was estimated to take 45 days… I couldn't believe it, I was so deep down in shooting and started to look for solutions. I ended up buying a Pentax film body, and 20 rolls of film, and a 50mm f2 manual lens. So far this has been one of the wisest decisions in my development as a photographer and changed everything for me.
Short there after I had development tanks, different developers, scanner, photo printer and still that K-r was on service. When it came back I really was not interested in it anymore. Used it occasionally when traveling, but that was it.
Now the K-r is sold, almost a year ago, and the rest of my Pentax gear is up for grabs too, all film bodies, lenses etc. and I've bought into Nikon instead as I was firmly decided to one day buy a full frame digital and then I could have the best of two worlds, film bodies, a lens tool box, and a digital body to use with the very same lenses and focal length. Ricoh released the K-3, that we all thought was gonna be a FF, but no.
So now my locker is full of Nikon film bodies that I use daily, a good startup range of 3-4 lenses, and finally since a cpl of days, a Nikon D610 bought with the intention to use for a cpl of longterm projects I have ongoing that I want to evaluate of digital will do instead of or in conjunction with film.
My first impressions are way beyond those of the Pentax K-r I had, and way way beyond my expectations… even the in camera jpg's looks AMAZING, and the dynamic range, the resolution, and the perception of DOF… It's SO close to what I've been experiencing with film since my first negative scan, and to what that took my interest away from the digital domain already in the beginning….
Now I only use manual older lenses, Nikon Ai and Ai-s lenses, I have no AF lenses nor zoom lenses, and practically I intend to use the D610 as I use my film bodies, to capture the light in the same fashion but in this case I skip the cost for film and the time for scanning… But this is just my workflow, I'm happy with it, and it works really well using the built in rangefinder in the camera, I'll evaluate it for some more time and should I not be happy with the electronic focusing aid I can always snap in a classic split prism focusing screen.
If you've been thinking about going FF, no matter what brand or model, for a while now, I say look into it, see if you can borrow or rent a FF body somewhere for a few days, imho, it's an amazing experience!
Just sayin…
Cheers
JF
It took a cpl of weeks, and I was hooked. About a month after I bought that K-r, it started to behave really strange and became unusable (something with the shutter mechanism and aperture mechanism that apparently seems to be kind of an standard problem for that body), so I had to send it in for repair.
What happened next was frustration, as it was estimated to take 45 days… I couldn't believe it, I was so deep down in shooting and started to look for solutions. I ended up buying a Pentax film body, and 20 rolls of film, and a 50mm f2 manual lens. So far this has been one of the wisest decisions in my development as a photographer and changed everything for me.
Short there after I had development tanks, different developers, scanner, photo printer and still that K-r was on service. When it came back I really was not interested in it anymore. Used it occasionally when traveling, but that was it.
Now the K-r is sold, almost a year ago, and the rest of my Pentax gear is up for grabs too, all film bodies, lenses etc. and I've bought into Nikon instead as I was firmly decided to one day buy a full frame digital and then I could have the best of two worlds, film bodies, a lens tool box, and a digital body to use with the very same lenses and focal length. Ricoh released the K-3, that we all thought was gonna be a FF, but no.
So now my locker is full of Nikon film bodies that I use daily, a good startup range of 3-4 lenses, and finally since a cpl of days, a Nikon D610 bought with the intention to use for a cpl of longterm projects I have ongoing that I want to evaluate of digital will do instead of or in conjunction with film.
My first impressions are way beyond those of the Pentax K-r I had, and way way beyond my expectations… even the in camera jpg's looks AMAZING, and the dynamic range, the resolution, and the perception of DOF… It's SO close to what I've been experiencing with film since my first negative scan, and to what that took my interest away from the digital domain already in the beginning….
Now I only use manual older lenses, Nikon Ai and Ai-s lenses, I have no AF lenses nor zoom lenses, and practically I intend to use the D610 as I use my film bodies, to capture the light in the same fashion but in this case I skip the cost for film and the time for scanning… But this is just my workflow, I'm happy with it, and it works really well using the built in rangefinder in the camera, I'll evaluate it for some more time and should I not be happy with the electronic focusing aid I can always snap in a classic split prism focusing screen.
If you've been thinking about going FF, no matter what brand or model, for a while now, I say look into it, see if you can borrow or rent a FF body somewhere for a few days, imho, it's an amazing experience!
Just sayin…
Cheers
JF
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