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Introductions => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: Andy on January 13, 2016, 22:39:22
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Hello all.
As this is my first post here at NikonGear, I'd like to use the opportunity to introduce myself. (I was a member of the old forum for a year - many years ago)
Summary (to save you reading time :) )
Living in Vienna, Austria. Old, but curious. Started the digital journey with the D1. Almost no analog history - photo wise. Personally still analog, not yet digitally "upgraded". Would assume that the content of my camera bag would align nicely with the term "NikonGear". Reduced my time and focus on photography back in 2012. Got recently interested again for 2 reasons: 1) a littly puppy called Loki (of course cute, but challenging AF systems and exposure meters) and 2) the recent announcements by Nikon. Due to day job requirements, night and weekend photography seems to align well with these restrictions. Try to improve my understanding how things work, why and - more importantly - why not. Love to read other's insights, attempting to contribute back. Predominantely a post-midnight poster - unless in a different timezone. Photography = hobby, a tool and activity to relax and enjoy.
With that, thank you so much for creating this place to hang around and looking forward to the interesting discussions and interactions with all of you.
regards,
Andy
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Hi Andy, welcome!
Nicely written introduction, by the way.
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Welcome!
I hope you will feel at home here 😉
My digital journey also started out with the D1 Nikon, I recall the amount of batteries it consumed and the overall challenge of getting colors right,,, But a wonderful machine and a perfect entry into DSLR 😉
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Welcome here, Andy.
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Thank you Thomas, Bruno and Erik for the nice welcome.
Erik,
the D1 was really a revelation for me at that time. Was quite happy with the results then (seemingly, the better my equipment became over time, my results degraded ;) - I should probably migrate back to the D1 again :) ). Oh yeah, I remember the endless discussions about the color cast on the d1scussion forum. There was also the unofficial D1FAQ.pdf by Gerhard Strobl (also from Vienna). The 118 page PDF was a valuable reference for many questions of new D1 users at that time.
A pic with the D1, shot 15 years ago, just resized
(http://www.pbase.com/andrease/image/128826451/original.jpg)
regards,
Andy
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Hello Andy
Welcome here from my side, and Greetings from Vienna to Vienna ;)
I remember you from the old board - and it might as well be that we share the same Nikon- gear vendor
best wishes and enjoy the new Forum.
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Servus Wolfgang (Vienneese 101: "Servus" means "Hi"),
many thanks for the welcome note. I will definitely enjoy the new forum. :)
wrt to the store: Might very well be, there aren't that many Nikon stores in town.
regards,
Andy
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Grüßgott Andy - from Lille, but I resided in Hütteldorf, then Hietzing 1957 (age 0) -1964... and was there again last December. We'll sure meet electronically after midnight, more often than none.
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Guten Abend, Andy!
I started with the Minolta Dimage 7 ... then Nikon D70 ... then Nikon D3 ... The more I think about gear the more I come to the following conclusion:
1) I cannot increase my talent
2) I can increase practice
3) I can increase know-how
4) Therefore I should invest in practice & know-how
5) equipment is fascinating but overrated
Willkommen im Forum. Es lohnt sich!
[Welcome to the forum, It is worth it!]
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Welcome, Andy. This is an active and thriving community as it is a collective undertaking. Add according to capability and take as required.
Regarding the D1, I have many fond memories of that camera. Leaving out the battery performance (for now), just commenting on the colours. At its introduction few photographers had any idea about colour spaces and colour management at all, and sometimes I think the Nikon engineers at the time fell into the same category by making the camera operate with an NTSC-like colour space that nobody had expected much less knew how to handle; the latter included software offerings as well. Once one treated the D1 NEFs properly, they delivered surprisingly good results (seen in the perspective of its time). My stock library continues to sell my D1-based images to this very day. Many printing purposes don't require huge 30-40 megapixel files.
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Servus Wolfgang (Vienneese 101: "Servus" means "Hi"),
many thanks for the welcome note. I will definitely enjoy the new forum. :)
wrt to the store: Might very well be, there aren't that many Nikon stores in town.
regards,
Andy
Servus Andi
And I meant "Foto Sobotka" at Mariahilferstraße near Westbahnhof
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Wolfgang,
I wasn't there for quite a (long) while, but I got my AFS 200-500mm just before christmas there.
rgds,
Andy
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Wolfgang,
I wasn't there for quite a (long) while, but I got my AFS 200-500mm just before christmas there.
rgds,
Andy
Tested both the 200-500 and the 80-400 there and recently got the 80-400
Cheers, Wolfgang
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Hello all. As this is my first post here at NikonGear, I'd like to use the opportunity to introduce myself. (I was a member of the old forum for a year - many years ago) Summary (to save you reading time :) ) Living in Vienna, Austria. Old, but curious. Started the digital journey with the D1. Almost no analog history - photo wise. Personally still analog, not yet digitally "upgraded". Would assume that the content of my camera bag would align nicely with the term "NikonGear". Reduced my time and focus on photography back in 2012. Got recently interested again for 2 reasons: 1) a littly puppy called Loki (of course cute, but challenging AF systems and exposure meters) and 2) the recent announcements by Nikon. Due to day job requirements, night and weekend photography seems to align well with these restrictions. Try to improve my understanding how things work, why and - more importantly - why not. Love to read other's insights, attempting to contribute back. Predominantely a post-midnight poster - unless in a different timezone. Photography = hobby, a tool and activity to relax and enjoy. With that, thank you so much for creating this place to hang around and looking forward to the interesting discussions and interactions with all of you. regards, Andy
Welcome Andy,
I appreciate your well researched contributions and insights at that other German Nikon forum already for quite a while.
I am pretty sure that you will feel well at home here. :)
Looking forward to reading more from you,
Günther
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Hi Günther, thank you for your kind welcome remarks.
regards,
Andreas
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A pic with the D1, shot 15 years ago, just resized
Resized? Wasn't that the native resolution of the D1 ;)
Welcome to NG btw.
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D1 did 2000 x 1312 (pixel numbers actually dependent on the actual RAW conversion program). Perhaps not very impressive by today's standard, but the files could easily be scaled up by a substantial amount and over the years I have had a number of whole page front covers or double page spreads printed from D1 files.
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Resized? Wasn't that the native resolution of the D1 ;)
Welcome to NG btw.
Thanks for the welcome Jan Anne.
Let me get back into my server cabinet and look for the remaining pixels to show you the photo in "full glory" - they will be for sure somewhere, just need to find them. :)
rgds,
Andy
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Quick side note; Back then I used 'DNG recover edges' to recover the last of the pixels from the RAW file, these pixels are used by the raw converter to guess the edge data.
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Hi Andy/Andreas
I remember all the posts that you put up on the old board - awesome contributions and your close ups of the cheek vellus hair on a girl in a passing street shot convinced me to get the D800E.
Thanks also for sharing the amazing glass that most of us will never see nor experience - your 300mm f2 snow shots are almost the only action shots on the net.
Welcome!
JJ
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Hi JJ, great to see you here and thanks for the kind words.
Glad to hear, that one of my images contributed a little bit to your selection of the D800E. Hope you still like it (I do).
In the first 12 years of the digital journey which started for me with the D1 in 1999, I've used the learning opportunity to look with curiosity in many different - unknown to me - corners of photography. While I still feel that I only scratched the surface, the last 4 years had some other areas of personal interest impacting my interaction with photography. Old material is still somewhere located on the web, but I hadn't had time to continue this level of intensity some of these "projects" had. But they were fun :). Like:
1) The 40 page "First impressions with the D7000 (https://nikonandye.wordpress.com/cameras/digital-bodies-consumer/nikon-d7000/)" immediately after availability. With some fun metrics (ISO/NR settings and the filesize increase it caused, the NR setting comparison table, GB written to flash card / Wh, ...)
2) The 4-part D5100 experience writeup (https://nikonandye.wordpress.com/cameras/digital-bodies-consumer/nikon-d5100-review/)
3) The Nikon 1 in the Masai Mara (https://nikonandye.wordpress.com/cameras/digital-bodies-consumer/with-the-nikon-1-system-in-the-masai-mara/) - literally picking up the camera on the way to the airport and learning while on safari.
As you mentioned the AiS 300mm. Yep, was also a fun experience to use it while doing downhill skiing :) The photos are still on the webserver, happy to share it here as well.
Nevertheless, the recent camera announcements got my curiosity back - looking forward to learn here a lot.
Again, great to see you here, thanks for the welcome and looking fwd to good conversations and mutual insights,
Andy
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Hola Andy, from California.
Gary