Recent Nikonian

[Lumens Pixel]

I started my photographic journey 40 years ago with a Minolta SRT 101 and a 58 1,4, gift of my parents. This has been for a while my sole equipment. Later completed with an X700 and some nice Minolta primes.

I shifted later to Canon AF, EOS 1000  EOS 5 and some high end lenses like a 28-80 2,8 4,0 L 80 200 2,8 L etc...

I did not like the weight and went to primes, Canon A1 and 28 2,0, 35 2,0, 50 1,4, 100 2,8 but then was the rise of digital.

I could not afford anything like a DSLR and no interesting options were any more available to develop slides that were my main media.

My hobby went on pause and I bought to my wife a Ricoh Caplio R4 (good camera) that I used from time to time.

I bought the cheapest DSLR available when price became reasonable: EOS 1000D with the kit 18-55  and obtained acceptable results and that was my gateway to digital photography.

I downloaded Rawtherapee and started tweaking my RAW files with one objective: come close to the camera jpeg. That was quite uneasy for a beginner.

Later on, Sony introduced the A7 and I bought an A7II, no Sony lens, and started buying back my old Canon and Minolta manual lenses with adapters for E-mount.

Recently and for travel purposes I looked for light travel zooms and was pleasantly surprised by the 28-80 3,3/5,6 G and 80-200 4,5/5,6 amongst some other zooms.

"L'appetit vient en mangeant" and I started a little collection of manual primes 24 2,8 AI; 28 2,0 N Auto; 28 3,5 AI; 35 2,8 K; 35 2,0 O; 50 2,0 HC; 85 2,0 AI; 135 3,5 AI; 200 4,0 AI.

I intervene from time to time on mflenses and fredmiranda and I will happily discuss Nikon gear issues on this forum.

[Frank Fremerey]

"L'appetit vient en mangeant" and I started a little collection of manual primes 24 2,8 AI; 28 2,0 N Auto; 28 3,5 AI; 35 2,8 K; 35 2,0 O; 50 2,0 HC; 85 2,0 AI; 135 3,5 AI; 200 4,0 AI.

As we are brand agnostic, with a lot of Nikon people due to historical reasons, thus the name too; see http://naturfotograf.com/
Your journey could be called typical though

Warmest welcome

[ColinM]

Welcome aboard L.P.

I remember many people loving the Canon A1 when it came out (I was still on Pentax back in the 80's)

Feel free to post either some of your current work, or maybe a blast from the past taken with some of your earlier gear

I will happily discuss Nikon gear issues on this forum.

I checked again, but couldn't find any Nikon gear in you list of previous ones?

[Lumens Pixel]

As we are brand agnostic, with a lot of Nikon people due to historical reasons, thus the name too; see http://naturfotograf.com/
Your journey could be called typical though

Warmest welcome

Thank you for the kind words. The Naturfotograf web site has been a precious resource when I started buying Nikon lenses.

[Lumens Pixel]

Welcome aboard L.P.

I remember many people loving the Canon A1 when it came out (I was still on Pentax back in the 80's)

Feel free to post either some of your current work, or maybe a blast from the past taken with some of your earlier gear
 
I checked again, but couldn't find any Nikon gear in you list of previous ones?

Thank you for the warm welcome. I will certainly post some pics. I am not sure I have understood your last sentence but my Nikon gear is quite recent. If you refer to my list of gear on my signature profile on mflenses I have been unable to refresh it for a while for some technical reason.