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Astro Baby

Astro Baby

Member Since 20 Jun 2019
Offline Last Active Sep 30 2019 03:07 PM
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#63040 Hello from me

Posted by Astro Baby on 26 June 2019 - 03:27 PM

Ah I dont do digital. I did as a pro in the early days but found little enjoyment in it. These days I find real enjoyment in shooting film. Heck at some point I may go to using plate cameras.


#62955 Hello from me

Posted by Astro Baby on 20 June 2019 - 03:46 PM

Hi,

 

I don't do much 'web' stuff anymore but thought I would join just to gab about old film Nikons.  I am an old ex-pro / semi pro photographer.  I kind of retired in the early days of digital. Just hated digital really and had grown tired of being a pro.

 

For a fair few years I just never bothered to own a camera at all apart from a happy snappy digital.

 

About a year or so back I was browsing a charity shopped lo and behold there was an unloved Pentax KX lurking in there and I got a kind of buzz so I handed over some shekels and took it home, gave it some love and attention.  It sparked off a small collection and more importantly a desire to get shooting again with film.

 

Back in the day I mostly shot various Nikons but my real love was the 'F' - I sold my pair back at the dawn of digital and have bitterly regretted it ever since.  Anyway long story short on a recent trip to Japan I managed to find myself a beautiful F with FTn head and 50mm f1.4 All in running condition at a good price so bagged her up and bought her home to be company to my Nikon F-301. Lots of Nikon fans hate the 301 but I always loved mine as my walkabout point and shoot back in the day.  The Fs and F2s were mostly used for the pro work while the 301 was my 'with me at all times'.

 

Anyway thats enough about me - looking forward to reading posts and hopefully being able to contribute.

 

Mel