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Roger from Essex signing in.
Present DSLR is a Pentax K100D. This was a good introduction to DSLR territory for me and allowed me to use my long Pentax lens that I had with my AE Film SLR all those years ago.
I've decided to grasp the nettle and get a whole new kit for my retirement. I am brand-neutral, although am extremely impressed with the quality of (12MP) stills I get from my top-range Sony Handycam camcorder.
Uses will be:
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Present DSLR is a Pentax K100D. This was a good introduction to DSLR territory for me and allowed me to use my long Pentax lens that I had with my AE Film SLR all those years ago.
I've decided to grasp the nettle and get a whole new kit for my retirement. I am brand-neutral, although am extremely impressed with the quality of (12MP) stills I get from my top-range Sony Handycam camcorder.
Uses will be:
- Astronomical (lenses removed, body fixed via T adapter to one of several telescopes)
- Solar (long focal length lens with a bader filter)
- Wildlife (various ranging from dragonflies requiring medium lens and lightning-fast reaction to shutter, to larger slower stuff requiring tripod, long lens and lots of patience)
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I am from Rochester, Kent.
But I live in south Manchester now. Funnily enough, I'm going back down to Rochester for a few days after xmas, to see my Mum and sister, and I'll be taking the 7D for the first time, and a few lenses, to capture pics of the place where I began, and where I grew up for 18 years before moving north for uni in 1989.
Because I was born in the same house my Mum still lives in, and we never moved, I have many very strong memories of Rochester, and I want to get some pics of the place I still see often in my dreams and memories, even though it's changed a lot since my childhood. Some things are still the same, obviously.
But I live in south Manchester now. Funnily enough, I'm going back down to Rochester for a few days after xmas, to see my Mum and sister, and I'll be taking the 7D for the first time, and a few lenses, to capture pics of the place where I began, and where I grew up for 18 years before moving north for uni in 1989.
Because I was born in the same house my Mum still lives in, and we never moved, I have many very strong memories of Rochester, and I want to get some pics of the place I still see often in my dreams and memories, even though it's changed a lot since my childhood. Some things are still the same, obviously.
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Greetings from Exeter, South West UK! A lovely part of the world to live in if you like landscape photography with so much variety on your doorstep! (when it isn't chucking it down) 
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I'm an Exonian in exile.insanitybeard said:Greetings from Exeter, South West UK! A lovely part of the world to live in if you like landscape photography with so much variety on your doorstep! (when it isn't chucking it down)
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Kernuak said:I'm an Exonian in exile.insanitybeard said:Greetings from Exeter, South West UK! A lovely part of the world to live in if you like landscape photography with so much variety on your doorstep! (when it isn't chucking it down)
Ha! I thought I recognised some of your landscape pictures of being around these parts! (And of course the titles of some of them was a giveaway). Lovely part of the world that we live in! Whereabouts are you living to now then?
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paul13walnut5 said:
Do you do much in the way of Landscape photography? Scotland has a special place in my heart for it's amazing scenery- I have particular fondness for the rugged desolate beauty of Skye and the far North-West- Torridon, Sutherland etc... Bleak as you can get in stormy weather, out of this world on a (maybe rare!) sunny day, and magical in any weather! (rose tinted specs maybe, but still an amazing place!)
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Not as much as I should, or even stills these days in general, mainly using cameras for video just now.
There are some brilliant locations on the west coast, but I try to avoid them as theres so many folk doing the same classic locations but at a better standard than me, Colin Prior has a lot to answer for, I swear there's a tripod footprint worn into the bedrock at Buachaille Etive Mor and the Old Man of Storr.
I do stuff mainly along the clyde coast and islands, as they are generally ignored by everybody bar locals.
Do you do much in the way of Landscape photography? Scotland has a special place in my heart for it's amazing scenery- I have particular fondness for the rugged desolate beauty of Skye and the far North-West- Torridon, Sutherland etc... Bleak as you can get in stormy weather, out of this world on a (maybe rare!) sunny day, and magical in any weather! (rose tinted specs maybe, but still an amazing place!)
Not as much as I should, or even stills these days in general, mainly using cameras for video just now.
There are some brilliant locations on the west coast, but I try to avoid them as theres so many folk doing the same classic locations but at a better standard than me, Colin Prior has a lot to answer for, I swear there's a tripod footprint worn into the bedrock at Buachaille Etive Mor and the Old Man of Storr.
I do stuff mainly along the clyde coast and islands, as they are generally ignored by everybody bar locals.
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