Today it is exactly 25 - twenty five - years since I had my first serious field testing of the then new and game-changing Nikon D1. At the time, I had used the camera [pre-production sample] a few times already, but this now was my own copy of it .... One of out the very first small batch to arrive in Norway.
I quickly learned that battery capacity under cold winter conditions was abysmal, thus pit stops for coffee while awaiting a hastily acquired car charger did its best to revitalise the sad battery became second-nature habit. Rethinking how one set up lenses was another aspect and in many ways different from my then current work-horse, the F5.
My stock library loved the images so the future looked rosy red. Little did I know about the hurdles lying in wait ahead.
The image is the fern Polypodium vulgare covered in freshly fallen snow, taken with the Nikkor-PC 85mm f/2. Today, as that day 25 years ago, it is snowing heavily. I feel like I've been through a time leap. It is likely I would have ended up with almost the same image today.
