Well, to add to what Len said, if everyone posts a bio in response to your suggestion, we'll about double the 150 or so e-mails we get on this list each day!
As you gradually get to know us, you'll find us a pretty diverse and interesting group. Except for me. I'm neither diverse nor interesting.
So, I live in Toronto, I'm a 47 year old single white male looking for a stable relationship. I like walks in the woods, cuddling by a warm fire on a wintry night - oops, wrong list <g>
I too started out with Spotties, and now own a few of those, along with an MX, LX (my newest baby), and a few other assorted cameras by other manufacturers. All old, all (mostly) mechanical, all do what I ask them, so I'm in no hurry to get autofocus, let alone digital <g>. You will find that the discussions these days, when not flaming each other, are very digital oriented, so at least I'm learning lots about the *istD before I take the inevitable plunge in about 20 years or so.
BTW, despite what's going on over on another thread, generally no politics, religion, abortion, or gun talks. It is an unmoderated list, but other than the odd flare up, we do a mostly good job of moderating ourselves.
BTW, welcome aboard!!
cheers, frank
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From: "Larry Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: where are you ? and digital vs film Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:22:27 -0700
Hi all:
One of the neat things that we did on another unrelated discussion group was
give a little bio on who we are,
what we do, and where we live. I would like to know something about this
group so I will start it:
I live in Prescott Arziona USA. This is beautiful desert and canyon country.
I'm 63 years old and have been
doing landscape photography for 40 years. I started out with a Spotmatic. I
recently got an *ist D and I love it.
In between I went the 4x5 route and still have that equipment, but most
likely I will never go back. I am a
Land Surveyor by trade.
On the subject of film resolution vs digital resolution I can get whatever
digital resolution I need simply by using a longer lens, taking
overlapping images of my landscapes and stitching them together using
stitching software to make whatever size image I need. Their is also
Genuine Fractals software that will enlarge this even more. I have a 24"x36"
image hanging in my office that almost looks like it's from 4x5.
It was actually taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5700. Should be even
better with my "*ist D".
Now I know that some landscapes are the perfect subject for this technique and that action shots etc. would not work. But it works well for me.
Your bio and thoughts on this?
Thanks, Larry
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