Thank you for welcoming me into this group! My name is Tim Delaney and I live in Nova Scotia, a small province on the east coast of Canada.
My photographic journey started as a kid with a cheap, fix-focussed twin lens reflex camera and by my teens, I had bought a second-hand Olympus OM-1 in 1977. I kept that camera until I got my first decent digital camera, a Nikon D40 in 2007. This was a game-changer! I've still got it, and have taken many lovely pictures with it, but in 2019, I wanted to upgrade and got my D700 from a professional photographer. I absolutely love the D700! It is a far better camera than I am a photographer!
In terms of lenses, I've been leaning toward older, AI primes for the most part, but have a mix of stuff, either bought for the D700 or for the previous D40. They include: 20/4 AI, 28-70/3.5-4.5 AF-D, 28-80/3.3-4.5 G, 50/1.8 G, 50/1.8 E, 70-210/4-5.6, 105/2.5 AI-S, Micro 105/4, Nikkor-Q 135/2.8 (someone's home-made AI job), 135/3.5 AI-S, 180/2.8 AI, and a Nikkor-Q 200/4 with factory AI ring.
When my father-in-law died last year, I wound up with an EM, the 135/3.5, the 50 E and a 28/2.8 E. The lenses were all heavily infested with fungus. I disassembled and cleaned the 50 and had a pro CLA the 135 (which is now a beautiful lens) and haven't dug into the 28 yet. But the EM is teasing me with dabbling in film again, to the degree I bought an FE and hope to shoot a bit of film once in awhile.
Thank you once again for letting me in the group and than you Nikon, for such a broad range of quality photographic equipment!
Tim
While I like to take general landscape subjects, especially when travelling, my wife and I breed and show Beagles, and a great deal of my shots are of the dogs (by the percentage of shutter actuations!)
