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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kias" data-source="post: 93289" data-attributes="member: 9496">Well, it's certainly pleasant that no one has had any serious objections to my decisions.  I guess I'll stick with this list then.  The Nikkor/Tamron/Sigma/et al debate has always been, and always will be.  I have no plans to beat up my gear, and no plans to recoup any money from the gear, so a budget I'm comfortable with has to be set.  If that wasn't the case, I'd be all over the multi-thousand dollar glass.I haven't touched an SLR for 30 years, so I have a lot of learning to do!  My Grandpa was a professional photographer for GM, so he taught me a lot.  Hardly any of it I remember though.  HA!  I was 10(ish) years old, so all that composition, rule of thirds, aperture, Fstops, etc, etc, etc, it's all in my brain somewhere.  The more I read on photography, the more I suddenly find myself saying, "Ohhh!!  That's what Grandpa was talking about!"  Like somebody just flipped the big light switch on in my brain!We spent many days in his darkroom.  I always thought it was magical when you could slip a piece of paper into that liquid and a picture would appear.  Dark Magic!  However, film photography is definitely an expensive hobby.  Besides, I eventually found girls interesting.  Joined the Navy.  Got married.  Had Kids. You know... life got in the way.  But I'm back and ready to start again!I realized not too long ago that I've spent over $1600 on various point and shoots over the years.  They all eventually break and aren't worth it to get it fixed, and the last one I owned, I left in Kentucky somewhere, I think...  So I've decided to get a camera that if it breaks, it will probably be worth it to get fixed.At the moment, the only camera I have is the one that comes on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus phone.  Along with the 4 dollar app called Camera FV5.  This app tries to give you as much DSLR like control as possible, the limitation being the hardware of course.  It's fun to run around and try and get good pictures with it.  I also have had Lightroom 4 for the past couple of months and absolutely love it.  Though I have much to learn in there too.  I guess you can do so much more with raw files, so I'll have to wait to see that.  I've watched a lot of videos about LR and am always impressed with the before/after picture.  Sometimes just stunning!So I'll leave this post with a picture from said phone, that I personally like, with slightly modified clouds and whitewalls with LR.  If I had thought about it some more, I would've had them move that pickup truck out of the way, and then waited for a train.  The tracks are immediately behind that pickup truck.  But I'm sure with just a camera phone, the train would look like crap anyway...[ATTACH]21618[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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