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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 619881" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>I've been into photography since my early teens,mostly with cameras that I picked up at thrift stores and garage sales and such for a few dollars. My first <em>“real camera”</em> was an Argus C3, that I got at a garage sale some time in the 1970s, for about $10. I had long admired the Nikon F2 line, but it remained well out of my budget, until I got my first <em>“real job”</em> in 1986, in connection with which I had a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Arctic later that year. So, in September of 1986, finally having enough money to afford it, and finally having a good excuse to buy a good camera, I bought a used Nikon F2 Photomic body for, I think, $325 at a local camera store, along with a 50mm ƒ/1.4 lens, a 28mm ƒ/3.5 lens, and a Vivitar 85-205mm ƒ/3.8 zoom lens. I don't remember what I paid for the Vivitar, but the other two lenses, both Nikkors, I think I paid about $90 each.</p><p></p><p> For quite a few years, I rarely ever went anywhere without taking that camera and those lenses with me. Eventually, photography sort of fell by the wayside, as the business of being an adult and supporting myself took over.</p><p></p><p> My interest in photography was rekindled with the advent of smart phones, with built in cameras, and with the amazing variety of software available on them to take and process pictures in ways that would be unimaginable with old-fashioned film-based photography. But with that, came the desire for a “real” digital camera. I long lamented that there ought to be, but wasn't, a back available to convert my F2 into a digital camera.</p><p></p><p> It was with the loss of my job in 2013, as the Campbell Soup factory where I worked shut down, that at some point, having a bunch of money coming out of retirement accounts, my wife and I decided to spend some of it on a couple of luxuries, before we put the rest into merely helping us survive. Out of that, I got a Nikon D3200, which I have been using ever since. I was pleased to find that the old lenses that I have for my F2 work just fine on it, even though Nikon claims that they, being non-AI lenses, won't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 619881, member: 16749"] I've been into photography since my early teens,mostly with cameras that I picked up at thrift stores and garage sales and such for a few dollars. My first [I]“real camera”[/I] was an Argus C3, that I got at a garage sale some time in the 1970s, for about $10. I had long admired the Nikon F2 line, but it remained well out of my budget, until I got my first [I]“real job”[/I] in 1986, in connection with which I had a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Arctic later that year. So, in September of 1986, finally having enough money to afford it, and finally having a good excuse to buy a good camera, I bought a used Nikon F2 Photomic body for, I think, $325 at a local camera store, along with a 50mm ƒ/1.4 lens, a 28mm ƒ/3.5 lens, and a Vivitar 85-205mm ƒ/3.8 zoom lens. I don't remember what I paid for the Vivitar, but the other two lenses, both Nikkors, I think I paid about $90 each. For quite a few years, I rarely ever went anywhere without taking that camera and those lenses with me. Eventually, photography sort of fell by the wayside, as the business of being an adult and supporting myself took over. My interest in photography was rekindled with the advent of smart phones, with built in cameras, and with the amazing variety of software available on them to take and process pictures in ways that would be unimaginable with old-fashioned film-based photography. But with that, came the desire for a “real” digital camera. I long lamented that there ought to be, but wasn't, a back available to convert my F2 into a digital camera. It was with the loss of my job in 2013, as the Campbell Soup factory where I worked shut down, that at some point, having a bunch of money coming out of retirement accounts, my wife and I decided to spend some of it on a couple of luxuries, before we put the rest into merely helping us survive. Out of that, I got a Nikon D3200, which I have been using ever since. I was pleased to find that the old lenses that I have for my F2 work just fine on it, even though Nikon claims that they, being non-AI lenses, won't. [/QUOTE]
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