Good evening from Cambridgeshire.
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:17 pm
Good evening all - well it is here in the Fenlands!
I have read David Kilpatrick's posts in another forum and since noticing his enforced absence there, thought I'd look elsewhere!
'Here' wasn't too dificult to find!
I bought my first Minolta SLR in about 1980. That was an aperture priority model that came with a 45mm f2 lens.
Can't remember the model number. I sold and bought my way up to an XM which I still have and use occasionally, plus an XE1 as backup. Never progressed to an auto-focus model....
I also bought a 16mm MG-S and still have a large number of negatives from this really quite good camera. But no camera anymore......
Come the digital age, my first camera was an Epson 850Z, then a Minolta 7HI then a Leica Digilux 2. I still own the Leica and am still impressed with its image quality!
These were followed by trips back in time - a Minolta RD 3000 and a KM Dimage A2. Still have them both and they also get used!
My - so far - final purchase has been a KM Dynax 7D which I use with a Tamron 18-250 and a Sigma 10-20 lens - together with my MC/MD lenses which work perfectly well on the 7D!hiccup! I especially like using the 50mm macro with or without the 1:1 extension tube - a nice focal length on the digital and still very clean and sharp.
I use both Lightroom and RawTherapee to process my images 99% of which are shot as RAW.
I'm now going to have a look at the postings here... Could be a long (and I hope informative) read.
I have read David Kilpatrick's posts in another forum and since noticing his enforced absence there, thought I'd look elsewhere!
'Here' wasn't too dificult to find!
I bought my first Minolta SLR in about 1980. That was an aperture priority model that came with a 45mm f2 lens.
Can't remember the model number. I sold and bought my way up to an XM which I still have and use occasionally, plus an XE1 as backup. Never progressed to an auto-focus model....
I also bought a 16mm MG-S and still have a large number of negatives from this really quite good camera. But no camera anymore......
Come the digital age, my first camera was an Epson 850Z, then a Minolta 7HI then a Leica Digilux 2. I still own the Leica and am still impressed with its image quality!
These were followed by trips back in time - a Minolta RD 3000 and a KM Dimage A2. Still have them both and they also get used!
My - so far - final purchase has been a KM Dynax 7D which I use with a Tamron 18-250 and a Sigma 10-20 lens - together with my MC/MD lenses which work perfectly well on the 7D!hiccup! I especially like using the 50mm macro with or without the 1:1 extension tube - a nice focal length on the digital and still very clean and sharp.
I use both Lightroom and RawTherapee to process my images 99% of which are shot as RAW.
I'm now going to have a look at the postings here... Could be a long (and I hope informative) read.
