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Uh oh,no pithy song lyric comes to mind Shutterbug in The Digital AgeI've always been a compulsive photographer,and a not very good one; this combination has been deemed by sufficiently authoritative authority to give one pause (well, give me pause at any rate, 'cause after all I did marry her) everything from merely unfortunate to criminally wasteful of the world's dwindling supply of silver halides. In the benighted past of 35mm rolls from Kodak and gruesomely expensive processing at Harmons,she had a valid point. I just wasn't that good a photographer to warrant taking and keeping all those pictures. Then came the Dawn of A New Era,the Age of Digital. And I looked (and she looked),and we both saw that It Was Good™. So,after some years' experience with the ups and downs of a Canon G2 (currently stuck in a box in the hall closet),we both got ourselves new cameras for Christmas. Sue got herself a Sony DSC-W100. I got a Nikon D50. As I mentioned in several recent LJ entries,I've sold off most of my 35mm film gear,keeping only a couple of valuable/sentimental pieces. I'm working on assembling my long-term digital camera/lens arsenal; the lenses will also work on the two film bodies I kept. Here's what's what (lifted mostly intact from a recent LJ entry)... Ok,here's what,I currently think,I want to wind up with as my final collection of dSLR gear:
I worked a trade-in and credit deal with Adorama,the first rate online shop that bought my 35mm gear. I thought I had a potential buyer for my old N70 and its 35-85 zoom but that fell through; it's still listed on photo.net's classifieds. Proceeds therefrom will cover either the 18-55 or the 28-80 AF-D. I'll get the last item some time later,trading in my current AF-G 28-80 (which won't work on my old F2AS, as it hasn't an AI meter coupling or an aperture ring). Of the above,the 28-80 and 70-210 will be usable on my old F2AS 35mm body. You never know,I may actually want/need to shoot another couple rolls of 35mm at some point,and having a good selection of glass that works with it would be a Good Thing™. Heck,far as that goes,those lenses would even work fine on my REALLY old meterless F. Gotta love the compatibility! [edit - The 50mm would be darned handy to have for generic low-light situations - even at ISO 1600 there might be times where it'd be nice to be able to shoot in near-darkness; this would be a semi-distant future buy] As for the flash,I need to get a new one because Nikon changed the control electronics and flash-metering scheme around on their new-generation digital bodies. The SB-400 is the smallest/lightest/least expensive in their new i-TTL flash lineup. My old Promaster I'll keep around for use with the old faithful F2AS.This will be the final collection of 35mm gear,sitting on the bench just waiting to be put back in the game:
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