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Bob.S:
So, Why am I here?......Even I am not too sure and I have my doubts!   I have been coming and reading the pages here for some time, I'm not really a 'joiner' of groups and I'm a dissillusioned photographer Who has really given up on serious image making for many years....I have been pleasing my inner eye with snapshots and mundane record shots for my several other interests.   The trouble is; I have always been an 'image maker' for all these years since I started at age 11 with the Kodak 11A 'Box Brownie'.... quite a long time ago now.    Later, I was actually trained as a technical photographer before 'life' horrors hit me unexpectedly.......

The whole world is clicking cameras, mostly to produce more and more rubbish images that mean very little, to anybody!   My dentist has many expensive cameras and thinks he's a photographer.......Unfortunately, I have to help him pay for his illusion....    We are bombarded from morning to night with a great mass of visual 'stuff' so why on Earth should I want or need to add to this tsunami of rubbish?........'don't really know the answer..... I just like to make photographs, preferably large ones that are well composed, nice and sharp with lots of depth of field, points to catch the eye and lead the viewer into and thru the  image until they see what I saw,..hopefully! 

So why now?...why Nikon?   A couple of years ago my wife went shopping for a new camera to replace the M4/3 Panasonic that had been a 60th birthday pesent and which was so badly designed that she never did get her head around it's complexity.    By luck she saw and aquired a Nikon D3300 with small zoomlens and has not looked back...the thing NEVER misses any shot that she makes and performs beautifully with no problems or hassle....She is quite a good photographer and this so-called 'entry' model is her perfect tool, always in her bag.    It was only a matter or time until I started to borrow her camera and I found that the D3300 is brilliantly well designed for making images without getting in the way or needing any real input....you compose in the finder, press the button slightly to briefly see a fandango of tiny red lights which do something then push down smoothly and you have a perfect image!     Since this event, my images have been getting more intersting and more serious.....

So, I'm thinking that it's time to clear out my cupboard.....gather up all those film cameras and lenses and get them sold off,...sort out the half dozen tripods...check out the electronic flashes.......and perhaps aquire my own Nikon,...but, which one is the right one for me?

Hugh_3170:
Welcome.

Don't sell anything, especially the lenses and tripods, until you figure out what you wish to acquire in the digital world.  Many of yesteryears lenses can be beneficially repurposed on todays digital camera bodies.  The people on this site can help you here.

Here is just one example:  https://nikongear.net/revival/index.php?topic=9620.msg161998;topicseen#msg161998

Bob.S:
Hugh,..thanks!   And yes, I did already see that topic with great interest as I have been surmising that my 180 Sonnar, Biometar and particulary my 50mm Flektagon might work well on full fram nikon, especially with stiched images.....

Erik Lund:
Welcome to NikonGear! Enjoy ;)
Good luck revitalizing your photographic journey! 

Hugh_3170:
Bob, you have some interesting lenses in that lot.  Definitely don't sell them until you appraise how well they suit your needs on whatever digital platform you go with.

Seek out the posts of Dr Klaus Schmitt (formerly KDS135) who posts on this site.  He has successfully repurposed many film era camera, projector, and special purpose lenses onto digital bodies.


--- Quote from: Bob.S on September 07, 2020, 10:24:57 ---Hugh,..thanks!   And yes, I did already see that topic with great interest as I have been surmising that my 180 Sonnar, Biometar and particulary my 50mm Flektagon might work well on full fram nikon, especially with stiched images.....

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