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
