Posted on 03/21/2008 3:28:46 AM PDT by KneelBeforeZod
Hi
Just curious if any other freepers have the photography bug... didn't seen any threads about it in search.
Link/post some good shots if you want to share.
So heres some of mine, I shoot a bit of everything. You can click for bigger sizes
Nice shots. At first glance I thought the one of the flag and the upper edge of a building was quite pedestrian but the more I looked at it, the more it became one of my favorites. Beautiful colors, contrasts, and lines in that one.
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Pinging my artist wife to this...
Shutterbug ping.
great pics!
Re: the mounted police officers. I thought public display of the American Flag had been outlawed in Kaleefornya.
Liar. A real photographer would be bragging about his equipment.
I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photographs,
So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.
:-)
(35mm Film Luddite)
(I still have my 'Honeywell' Pentax Spotmatic too, thing's a tank)
Have a thing for B&W. It takes 'something' to take a photograph - not 'snapshot' with it. What speed film, f-stop, focal length lens used?
Kodak Easy ShareZ8121S HD
Swampsniper is a go-to freeper when it comes to photographing nature. Look through some of his threads, they’re amazing.
Had a fair amount of stuff, sold most of it. Have only one 35mm SLR and one pocket-size digital.
The mounted color guard is your best in this group, IMO.
ATLANTA AT NIGHT 1968
D.C. 17TH STREET
PENNSYLVANIA AVE 1964
SCREWY
WYSHAR 1963
My late mother and my wife as my brother departed to a new AF unit --1963
“A real photographer would be bragging about his equipment.”
I’ve gotten into the subculture of people using old manual everything lenses and new auto everything digital SLRs.... I took the mounted police picture with a 35 year old Nikon lens on my Nikon digital which came out 3 years ago (but which I got for Christmas)
Outside of those old lens forums online, it seems to require we keep quiet for some reason. I think because no one wants the word to get out and prices to go up.
I hear Pentax digital SLRs can use the old lenses, and Sony digital SLRs can use the old Minolta Maxxum lenses.
thanks for the tip!
Home Sweet Home (part of the time...) ;)
But I just really like film (print & slide) and my 'old' Nikon FE and ancient Pentax. I know what I'm doing when I choose the film, type, ASA, shutter speed & f-stop like for the depth of field I want. Trying to relearn all that on a digital SLR now ... fugetaboutit, I'm too old.
I got my first Kodak Brownie about 51 years ago and started to learn how film was developed and prints made (we had a Darkroom set up in a Bedroom), been taking photos ever since. Went to Photography School too back in the mid 70's for about a year or so.
And I bought a Nikon Coolpix digital for our daughter last Christmas. I can't even compose a shot through that 'viewfinder' for a lousy snapshot. The same with the digital camera on my phone, can't use it properly (so far).
Anyway, going Digital now for me with an SLR would be like committing Hersey.
(For family 'snapshots' I grab the Minolta auto-focus zoom SLR I bought for the wife a while back. Its adequate & not a bad simple camera.)
I have an Nikon FG20, which doesn’t seem to meter for some reason...It had been just sitting around for about 10 years.
I’ve heard that the new low mercury batteries don’t work well with the old cameras, but I’m not sure how true that is.
I do know that someone has come out with batteries that are supposed to counteract this for about $12 a pop.......
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