[Covenantor]

Interesting experience.
Nipon Kogaku was the original name of Nikon. So you have stuck with the same excellent brand.

Still have one of their excellent rangefinder 35mm cameras, a copy of the German Contax RF.

[Paleo Pete]

Nice shots.

I started with Pentax and still use a Pentax DSLR. I get really good results with it, and can still use the same lenses that were on my first one in 1980 or so and it was used then...(also have a 35mm Minolta SRT101 that I like pretty well.)

I shoot mostly birds and nature stuff, but no sandhill cranes for 300 miles around here. Right now everything is changing, winter birds leaving, I saw a few Brown Headed Cowbirds a couple of says ago on my feeder so some of the summer birds have made it in.

for those of you who might have an interest in this, here are a couple of links to video cameras trained on bird nests. Eagles and Peregrine Falcons.

http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles

http://www.cbs3springfield.com/category/263498/live-video

http://wildlife.utah.gov/learn-more/peregrine-cam.html

I don’t know if these are still working, I guess I have to do the new Flash update to find out. Just did it less than a week ago...I get so sick of that garbage...