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I haven't posted a gallery, yet, thought I would start one since I got a new (used) toy, a D50 Nikon. Finally, digital SLR!!!!
Let's start with some old work. Started shooting with a camera my dad gave me when I left for college in the mid-70s, a Voigtlander Vitessa. A 1952-era folding rangefinder with no built-in metering, much less auto-exposure. You wanna learn how cameras work, get something like this and carry a hand-held light meter!
I've posted these two elsewhere on this forum, but I really like them. The lily pads are from my very first roll of 35mm film, Kodachrome 64 I think it was. (Might have been 25)
St. Andrew State Park, Florida
Chewacla State Park near Auburn, Alabama
My next camera was a Canon AE-1 with a 50mm 1.4 lens. Loved that camera, but time was not good to it. Mirror cushion is gone, and the shutter got to where it would release as soon as it cocked. Lost half a roll before I could get the power winder turned off! Got that camera from a friend of my sister's who got it for his birthday, and had no interest. Offered him a hundred bucks as a joke, and he accepted. Who am I to enlighten him? eBayed it recently for nearly that much! Worked out to less than a dollar a year to use it!!!
Suwanee river in Florida:
I bought myself a Nikon n8008 outfit to replace my aging AE-1, when the 8008 was a brand new system. The 8008s had not come out yet. No shots from that camera here, haven't bothered scanning too many of them. That's been my camera until just a few weeks ago. I had a Sony digital point-and-shoot which got me interested in the digital advantages, but could not think fast enough to be useful for the work I liked to do. Still, I've had a few nice shots with it.
From my wife's first all-day trip with me on the FJR, along the coast from home to Apalachicola.
I borrowed a D70 last year for an air show, had a chance to buy it but didn't have the $$$.
Had a mental problem converting the focal length to the smaller sensor when setting shutter speed, most of my pics had some motion blur. Also, I think I just forgot to set the speed higher after shooting some prop planes, didn't want frozen propellors.
This one impressed me, though, from when they taxied in after the show. I blew it up and was almost able to read the labels on the ejection seat! I left the post here as the clickable thumbnail for the sake of the post format.
This spring I got my D50. Bought it used from the same guy I borrowed the D70 from last year. Had to clean it up a bit, had some dust on the sensor, and he'd set a lot of "adjustments" which caused it to go weird with white balance and metering, generally overexposed nearly 2 stops when I first started using it.
I've only had a chance to play with it a couple of times. I went to the AMA weekend at Barber Motorsports in Alabama last April, and I went to the GrandAm weekend there last month, both times as a corner worker. While working, you get enough down time to just watch, or take pictures, as the case may be, and the corner stations are usually phonomenal viewing points!
AMA weekend:
The GrandAm weekend brought some bikes to the show, ran Moto-ST Saturday and Sunday mornings. These bikes are all twins, with 3 classes based on displacement and dyno-tested horsepower. They run a long race, 2 and a half hours, so there are pit stops for tires and fuel, and 2 or 3 riders per bike.
Rider's eyes!
I've got cars, too, of course, but haven't been through them yet. It's only been 3 weeks, what do you want from me??!??!?!
Let's start with some old work. Started shooting with a camera my dad gave me when I left for college in the mid-70s, a Voigtlander Vitessa. A 1952-era folding rangefinder with no built-in metering, much less auto-exposure. You wanna learn how cameras work, get something like this and carry a hand-held light meter!
I've posted these two elsewhere on this forum, but I really like them. The lily pads are from my very first roll of 35mm film, Kodachrome 64 I think it was. (Might have been 25)
St. Andrew State Park, Florida
Chewacla State Park near Auburn, Alabama
My next camera was a Canon AE-1 with a 50mm 1.4 lens. Loved that camera, but time was not good to it. Mirror cushion is gone, and the shutter got to where it would release as soon as it cocked. Lost half a roll before I could get the power winder turned off! Got that camera from a friend of my sister's who got it for his birthday, and had no interest. Offered him a hundred bucks as a joke, and he accepted. Who am I to enlighten him? eBayed it recently for nearly that much! Worked out to less than a dollar a year to use it!!!
Suwanee river in Florida:
I bought myself a Nikon n8008 outfit to replace my aging AE-1, when the 8008 was a brand new system. The 8008s had not come out yet. No shots from that camera here, haven't bothered scanning too many of them. That's been my camera until just a few weeks ago. I had a Sony digital point-and-shoot which got me interested in the digital advantages, but could not think fast enough to be useful for the work I liked to do. Still, I've had a few nice shots with it.
From my wife's first all-day trip with me on the FJR, along the coast from home to Apalachicola.
I borrowed a D70 last year for an air show, had a chance to buy it but didn't have the $$$.
Had a mental problem converting the focal length to the smaller sensor when setting shutter speed, most of my pics had some motion blur. Also, I think I just forgot to set the speed higher after shooting some prop planes, didn't want frozen propellors.
This one impressed me, though, from when they taxied in after the show. I blew it up and was almost able to read the labels on the ejection seat! I left the post here as the clickable thumbnail for the sake of the post format.
This spring I got my D50. Bought it used from the same guy I borrowed the D70 from last year. Had to clean it up a bit, had some dust on the sensor, and he'd set a lot of "adjustments" which caused it to go weird with white balance and metering, generally overexposed nearly 2 stops when I first started using it.
I've only had a chance to play with it a couple of times. I went to the AMA weekend at Barber Motorsports in Alabama last April, and I went to the GrandAm weekend there last month, both times as a corner worker. While working, you get enough down time to just watch, or take pictures, as the case may be, and the corner stations are usually phonomenal viewing points!
AMA weekend:
The GrandAm weekend brought some bikes to the show, ran Moto-ST Saturday and Sunday mornings. These bikes are all twins, with 3 classes based on displacement and dyno-tested horsepower. They run a long race, 2 and a half hours, so there are pit stops for tires and fuel, and 2 or 3 riders per bike.
Rider's eyes!
I've got cars, too, of course, but haven't been through them yet. It's only been 3 weeks, what do you want from me??!??!?!
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