After more than 25 years with Minolta SLR's I have bought a Nikon
Date: 27/06/2006 - Updated: 27/02/2008 11:20
When Dust Matters
16/03/2008: The dust problem is one of my main “vastly exaggerated problems” with DSLR's. Judging from the sometimes endlessly raging online debates, many camera owners do nothing but shoot white walls at f22 in the pursuit of dust.
Build a small softbox
26/02/2008: ...very small, that is.
I'm a film shooter
20/02/2008: No, it's not like I shoot film. I did go 100% digital the moment I acquired my first DSLR. But my photographic upbringing was in film, and that still marks my way of thinking and shooting.
Using wireless off-camera flash
15/09/2007: I have recently started using my D200 and the SB-800 flash without cable like I used to do with my Minolta 7D and the HS5600. It's great!
Several reasons not to replace my D200
30/08/2007: I am sure I will keep on taking great pictures with my D200 in spite of Nikon's recent announcement of a D300 and a D3.
How to drown a Canon PowerShot
06/06/2007: It is not easy! They are tough cameras these PowerShots. I have tried with freshwater, saltwater and even coffee.
The feeling of pro glass
06/04/2007: Oh, yes! These huge 17-55mm and 70-200mm f2.8 lenses do feel great in the hands, and the do take some awful nice pictures
B/W conversion
23/01/2007: B/W images can be stunning, and converting color images to B/W can produce some surprisingly good results — provided you do it the right way.
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I was lucky enough to acquire a couple of lenses that I hade craved for a while: the 17-55mm f2.8 DX and the 70-200mm f2.8 VR. Both are exactly what I imagined. High grade, professional, sturdy and with an image quality to match their price. These lenses are not inexpensive...
Here's a little snippet with my first experience and some samples.
The lack of mountains and widestretched plains forces me to concentrate my landscape photography on
urban landscapes. The technique is basically the same and the results often strikingly similar. Find the vistas of your own town.
I have scanned a lot of slides lately, and that has reminded me about the dust, the grain and the hardship of handling film. Not that the result isn't good.
It certainly is. But the trouble to get from unexposed film to finished image in the computer.
Do you remember that?.
When I hear people whining about
full-format or not,
dust on the sensor or noise at high ISO's, I just recall the memory of developing Tri-X 400 ASA film and trying to get a decent B/W print from it.
I have been a Minolta-man for all my life. My photographic career started with a
Minolta SR-7, which I kindly "borrowed" from my Dad, and I have stuck with Minolta ever since going through quite a few models:
XM,
XG-7,
7000,
7000i,
Dynax/Maxxum 7 and
7D. Until recently, where I acquired a
Nikon D200.
That marked a major change in my gear career. And that is the reason why I created this web site. I want to tell the story and talk about why I changed, what I gain — and what I loose.
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