Hello all, I'm a newbie macro photography enthusiast that is still getting his head around the new technology. I'm from the time of using a Hasselblad 500CM (I loved that camera) and 80mm Planar with extension tubes. Now, over twenty years later, I'm finding a whole new level of technology and manipulation which is exciting, if not a little daunting. I'm looking forward to delving into the group and learning something new.
Cheers
Boris
Greetings from Oz
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Re: Greetings from Oz
Welcome, Boris!
Quite a few of us, here, came up in the age of film. (Though for me, never with anything so exalted as Hasselblad.)
We're all here to help one another.
--Chris S.
Quite a few of us, here, came up in the age of film. (Though for me, never with anything so exalted as Hasselblad.)
We're all here to help one another.
--Chris S.
Re: Greetings from Oz
Welcome!
That goes for me too. But the lenses that seemed so far out of reach in those days can often be found on eBay for a pittance today. Especially medium format lenses. The Mamiya Apo-Sekors that used to cost many thousands are now available for a few hundred. Hasselblad lenses too are now affordable. The manual super-telephoto 35mm film lenses that we used to lust after are also now cheap. For those of us who grew up with all-manual lenses, it is a great time to be a photographer! And that's not even considering the amazing digital techniques available to us now, like focus stacking.Quite a few of us, here, came up in the age of film. (Though for me, never with anything so exalted as Hasselblad.)
Re: Greetings from Oz
I just today sent off for sale my manual-focus 600mm f/4 Nikkor. I'd lusted after one since college, and bought it rather cheaply about a decade ago. Now it's time to let someone else have the fun of using a lens that requires its own backpack.
I've been waiting 37 years for this autofocus fad to pass.For those of us who grew up with all-manual lenses, it is a great time to be a photographer!
--Chris S.