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Introductions => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: Hermann on December 30, 2015, 14:55:41
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Well, after reading this forum and enjoying the many great photos posted here for a couple of months, I just had to join.
I did quite a lot of photography years ago, using first Canon FD until they changed their bayonett. I then sold all my Canon gear and switched to Nikon. Haven't touched a Canon since then. I also had a Leica M3 for 10 years for street photography that I also sold. I still use an ancient Leica IIIf from time to time though, it's hard to give up on the old rangefinder cameras altogether. With the advent of digital photography I lost most of my interest, only took a few shots now and then, using mainly Nikon point and shoot cameras and a D40 with the kit zoom. Also did some digiscoping for record shots of rare birds.
Recently I've become interested in photography again. I got myself a Nikon 1 V1 with the 1.8/18.5 and the FT1 for my old AIS lenses, and recently a used D200 body in perfect shape at a ridiculously low price. I mainly shoot MF lenses (2/35, 1.8/50, 2.8/55 Micro, 4/105 Micro, 5.6/400 IF-ED with TC-14B) and two AF lenses, the 3.5-4.5/18-70 and the 4.5-5.6/70-300. I also have an old AF 1.8/50, still "Made in Japan". That's actually my most-used lens. I generally much prefer primes over zooms, and I'm not really into wideangles at all.
No photos to show at the moment, I'm afraid, I think I need some time and learn how to process RAW well enough first ... :-)
Hermann
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Welcome Hermann!
Please don't be afraid to show us your photos, we don't bite :)
We are all learning how to make better photos by sharing them :)
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Welcome at NG, Herman !
Your ''photograpic philosophy'' is close to mine, except that I don't use only nikkor lenses.
I left Canon for the same reason you mentioned : so frustrating to state that all your lenses were obsolete due the mount change.
Free software View NX is a good start to process your RAW files.
Enjoy 2016 with us ! ;)
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Free software View NX is a good start to process your RAW files.
Yeah, I've got View NX on my computers. I'm also trying to get used to Capture NX-D after fooling around with RAW Therapee for a while. That'll take some time though, and I think I may have to upgrade the RAM on my computers. 4 GB isn't really enough, it seems. Switching to other software isn't an option at the moment as I really like using Picture Control.
Hermann
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Welcome Hermann.
If you're running somewhat older, less spec'ced hardware, you could give LightZone a try. It runs on slower machines (albeit slower) and you can get it here: http://lightzoneproject.org/, it's free (and also open source).
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Welcome to the forum Hermann
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Welcom!.
I also had Canon FD the old AE-1 and some very nice lenses, then changed to the F-801s and F4E and Nikkors ;)