Slothead
Senior Member
[I tried this from my iPad and it didn't work very well so I switched to my laptop.]
I'm Tom from Frederick, MD and am here to check things out. When I first saw the date of this forum I mistook the year to mean it was on a month or two old, but since I have realized it is now 2011!!!
I am an aerospace engineer with my own companies and subcontracts supporting NASA and military support contractors on space-related programs. That kind of work and its variety keeps things interesting.
I'm a member of other Nikon forums so if there are others of you out there that are too, you *might* recognize my username.
I've been taking pictures since I was in high school over 40 years ago, and for a long time my philosophy was "the law of averages." If you take enough of them, some of them are bound to be good - and that works to a certain extent. But back in the 70s and 80s it got to be pretty expensive with film and processing, and even setting up a darkroom in the basement, while a lot of fun, turned out to be a really expensive ordeal. The photography got shelved - I even gave away much of my darkroom and processing equipment - until digital imaging appeared... Now it's REALLY cheap to take thousands of images and pick and choose to get the best. And so it's still somewhat of "law of averages" approach for me, but I've learned a lot over the years too.
When I first started back in '65 it was with a Kodak processing kit and a box camera - a gift from my older brother. 15 years later I got my first SLR, a Yashica TL Electro X with a solid-state meter movement. From there I tried Olympus, Pentax, and to be honest, I don't recall all the brands that I've used and owned. But for years, back in the day, I envied the Nikon owners and now since about 2005, that's all I've owned.
My current bodies includes a D5100 (newest addition), a D5000 converted to IR, a D300S and a D700. Lots of lenses include everything from the 10.5mm DX fisheye up to the AF-S 200-400 f/4 zoom and an older 500 f/4P EF-ID. I also find the variety of using DX lenses and FX format lenses offers additional flexibility to my options. My favorite subjects are nature-oriented (landscapes, wildlife, etc.) motorsports (although in these days of lawsuit-paranoia it is really tough to find a position to take really good images without cutting holes in fences), and architecture.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you folks have to say and show and I'll do the same.
I'm Tom from Frederick, MD and am here to check things out. When I first saw the date of this forum I mistook the year to mean it was on a month or two old, but since I have realized it is now 2011!!!
I am an aerospace engineer with my own companies and subcontracts supporting NASA and military support contractors on space-related programs. That kind of work and its variety keeps things interesting.
I'm a member of other Nikon forums so if there are others of you out there that are too, you *might* recognize my username.
I've been taking pictures since I was in high school over 40 years ago, and for a long time my philosophy was "the law of averages." If you take enough of them, some of them are bound to be good - and that works to a certain extent. But back in the 70s and 80s it got to be pretty expensive with film and processing, and even setting up a darkroom in the basement, while a lot of fun, turned out to be a really expensive ordeal. The photography got shelved - I even gave away much of my darkroom and processing equipment - until digital imaging appeared... Now it's REALLY cheap to take thousands of images and pick and choose to get the best. And so it's still somewhat of "law of averages" approach for me, but I've learned a lot over the years too.
When I first started back in '65 it was with a Kodak processing kit and a box camera - a gift from my older brother. 15 years later I got my first SLR, a Yashica TL Electro X with a solid-state meter movement. From there I tried Olympus, Pentax, and to be honest, I don't recall all the brands that I've used and owned. But for years, back in the day, I envied the Nikon owners and now since about 2005, that's all I've owned.
My current bodies includes a D5100 (newest addition), a D5000 converted to IR, a D300S and a D700. Lots of lenses include everything from the 10.5mm DX fisheye up to the AF-S 200-400 f/4 zoom and an older 500 f/4P EF-ID. I also find the variety of using DX lenses and FX format lenses offers additional flexibility to my options. My favorite subjects are nature-oriented (landscapes, wildlife, etc.) motorsports (although in these days of lawsuit-paranoia it is really tough to find a position to take really good images without cutting holes in fences), and architecture.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you folks have to say and show and I'll do the same.
