Hello from ice cold Norway

[mar1u5]

Just joined and thought I'd do the polite thing and introduce myself.

I live in norway and have been playing around with cameras for about 10 years. Nothing serious, mostly compacts, untill about 2-3 years ago when I bought my first DSLR - the canon eos 350D.

A quick summary of the cameras I've worked with, in pictures:

Olympus something-or-other 1.3 megapixels compact camera. Most mobile phones beats this in IQ these days

Upgraded to a canon ixus40 4 megapixels compact:

After shooting with the ixus for a while, I felt I needed something with a bit more manual control - but I wasn't ready for a full on DSLR yet, so I got a canon powershot S3 IS:

Then I took the step up to DSLR, with the canon 350D (xt) (with 18-55 kit lens). I had real doubts about doing it, mostly because I had grown acustomed to composing my shots with the screen instead of the viewfinder. But after seeing the results a DSLR could create, I've never looked back:

Only had the 350D for about 2 months, and then upgraded to the canon 400D (xti) with the canon ef-s 17-55 f2.8 IS (great lens!):

I guess by now you can see a "theme" in what I'm shooting

For 2009 I've upgraded to the nikon D300 with a nikkor 16-85 VR lens. Looking forward to trying it out, and I'm going to try and take pictures of a bit more than just cars this year.

 

[Big Mike]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Winston Deckard]

I've just arrived here too but I must welcome and congratulate you on a very original introduction! I guess you're starting off really well! :thumbup:

 

[Bigpopa]

Welcome and those are some nice pix there I love the cars.....

 

[Mitica100]

Nice progression! Welcome aboard.

 

[jv17]

i love your car pictures anyway its nice to meet you welcome aboard

 

[mar1u5]

Thank you, all of you. Good to be here. Hope I can contribute to the forum in a positive way.

 

[Doug]

Hello and Welcome to the forum.