Stradawhovious
Been spending a lot of time on here!
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It's been a long time since I posted here. Hell, it's been a long time since I pressed a shutter. Many of you won't remember me and those who do probably have only a vague memory of my shenanigans but that's ok. My love of this hobby my have recently been rekindled by a Nikon body that's largely been obselete for well over a decade.
The Nikon D1.
I recently picked this bad boy up locally, with an antique Nikkor 80-200mm push pull zoom lens (that I will likely never use) for $75. In 1999, when I was fresh out of trade school making $7.00 an hour, I was convinced I would never ever own this $5,500 professional camera. Didn't stop me from dreaming about it though...
Fast forward to last week, I just then realized that this body now sells for less than a decent dinner at the local brewpub.
So now I own it.
Let me be clear. This camera leaves an awful lot to be desired... 2.7MP, very poor low light performance evidenced by tons of noise and horizontal banding, tiny sensor, terrible and inconsistent color rendering, useless pic preview screen... the list goes on.
What it DOES have going for it is that it's still a professional level camera. No, really, it is. Or was anyways... The viewfinder is wonderfully bright, the controls are all precise and where they need to be and this guy is built like a tank. Forget the endless options and menus of my D7000, this guy has one job. Take pictures. Every button and switch on it is geared towards this one goal with no unnecessary bells and whistles. It allows me to focus on shooting in manual mode, relaxing and having a good time again. So what if my pictures aren't absolutely perfect in image quality. They aren't perfect in subject or composition either, so who cares.
Hopefully I will once again join the ranks of the casual shutterbug with this new purchace. God knows I'm already looking at the Nikon D2X...
To those of you who remember me, I hope you're doing well and I hope to be a reasonably frequent poster here once again in the very near future.
The Nikon D1.
I recently picked this bad boy up locally, with an antique Nikkor 80-200mm push pull zoom lens (that I will likely never use) for $75. In 1999, when I was fresh out of trade school making $7.00 an hour, I was convinced I would never ever own this $5,500 professional camera. Didn't stop me from dreaming about it though...
Fast forward to last week, I just then realized that this body now sells for less than a decent dinner at the local brewpub.
So now I own it.
Let me be clear. This camera leaves an awful lot to be desired... 2.7MP, very poor low light performance evidenced by tons of noise and horizontal banding, tiny sensor, terrible and inconsistent color rendering, useless pic preview screen... the list goes on.
What it DOES have going for it is that it's still a professional level camera. No, really, it is. Or was anyways... The viewfinder is wonderfully bright, the controls are all precise and where they need to be and this guy is built like a tank. Forget the endless options and menus of my D7000, this guy has one job. Take pictures. Every button and switch on it is geared towards this one goal with no unnecessary bells and whistles. It allows me to focus on shooting in manual mode, relaxing and having a good time again. So what if my pictures aren't absolutely perfect in image quality. They aren't perfect in subject or composition either, so who cares.
Hopefully I will once again join the ranks of the casual shutterbug with this new purchace. God knows I'm already looking at the Nikon D2X...
To those of you who remember me, I hope you're doing well and I hope to be a reasonably frequent poster here once again in the very near future.
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