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<blockquote data-quote="traceyjj" data-source="post: 360148" data-attributes="member: 27458"><p>I've been interested in photos and slides for as long as I can remember... but never really got chance to use a camera until my best mate at school lent me his Olympus Trip back in the early/mid 80s. As soon as I had a job my first (real) purchase was an Olympus OM10 which I loved. As the kids came along in the 90s I found I couldnt focus fast enough to capture them, so I switched to an autofocus P&S, which dimmed my enthusiasm as the photos were nowhere near as good.</p><p>As digital came into play I got interested again, so one christmas hubby bought me a Sony Mavica which used floppy disks to store about 8 images on... I had a succession of more MP cameras (all P&S as DSLRs were WAY out of my price range with a family to bring up) Then one christmas Hubby bought me an Olympus E410 and my love affair with real photography bloomed again. I was gutted when Olympus stopped producing consumer DSLRs to concentrate on the PEN series, so I bailed.... sold all my lenses and 2 bodies to buy into one of the major names. Canon was to plasticky/flimsy for the lower end (what my daughter would be using) so we ended up with a D3100 and a D5100 plus a couple of extras... now I am the proud owner of "the beastie" (D800) and my daughter has my old D5100 for her college photography course. - for some reason she wants to be a pro-tog, and the little minx already has her eyes on the D800 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="traceyjj, post: 360148, member: 27458"] I've been interested in photos and slides for as long as I can remember... but never really got chance to use a camera until my best mate at school lent me his Olympus Trip back in the early/mid 80s. As soon as I had a job my first (real) purchase was an Olympus OM10 which I loved. As the kids came along in the 90s I found I couldnt focus fast enough to capture them, so I switched to an autofocus P&S, which dimmed my enthusiasm as the photos were nowhere near as good. As digital came into play I got interested again, so one christmas hubby bought me a Sony Mavica which used floppy disks to store about 8 images on... I had a succession of more MP cameras (all P&S as DSLRs were WAY out of my price range with a family to bring up) Then one christmas Hubby bought me an Olympus E410 and my love affair with real photography bloomed again. I was gutted when Olympus stopped producing consumer DSLRs to concentrate on the PEN series, so I bailed.... sold all my lenses and 2 bodies to buy into one of the major names. Canon was to plasticky/flimsy for the lower end (what my daughter would be using) so we ended up with a D3100 and a D5100 plus a couple of extras... now I am the proud owner of "the beastie" (D800) and my daughter has my old D5100 for her college photography course. - for some reason she wants to be a pro-tog, and the little minx already has her eyes on the D800 :) [/QUOTE]
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