Photographic Equipment...

[rxpharm]

BigTel, that is a classic camera the Nikon F series are excellent 35 mm SLRs! You take all your photos in Thailand with the 28 mm lens? Do you scan your prints into you computer when you get back home?

Good quality prints using a good scanner give excellent results as well. Your Fuji bridge camera is one of the better point and shoot digitals.

[BigTel]

(rxpharm @ Apr. 11 2008,18:04) BigTel, that is a classic camera the Nikon F series are excellent 35 mm SLRs! You take all your photos in Thailand with the 28 mm lens? Do you scan your prints into you computer when you get back home?

Good quality prints using a good scanner give excellent results as well. Your Fuji bridge camera is one of the better point and shoot digitals.

Hi rxpharm
Yes I only use the 28mm lens, I really enjoying using this lens and the F3 just oozes quality, just love the feel of this Camera. I take my rolls of film into a local Kodak shop and get them exposed and put onto a CD as a JPG, then when I am back home in the U.K. I go through the shots and if there are any I want to put up in my Home, I use the negatives to get the Quality print.
I went for the Fuji after a bit of trial and error, initialy I bought a Nikon D50, then managed to get dust and hairs inside the camera, got fed up of using the spot heal tool so decided to sell the D50 and buy a fixed lens digital to alleviate the dust problems.
Now I am happy with the combination of Cameras that I use, giving me the best of two formats.
I use my Digital a lot in the U.K. especially when out walking in the Countryside, it's great practise and makes me look forward to when I use my Nikon on Holidays.

all the best
Terry

[donnnnnny]

the little rangefinders are great for snaps. (point and press) there east to carry and you don't need to think(miss the pic) just opint and click
Read my section on camera cleaning and the related websight above good reading on hoew to prevent crap getting on the low pass filter infront of the DIS

[BigTel]

Thank's donnnnnny for the good advice and info on the Cameracheckpoint web site.

[donnnnnny]

went out for a shoot on saturday , basically just to play around with white balance settings and see what happens. some interesting colours can be had
first pic is shot at 1/6 second f16 using a try pod and a remote control. and auto white balance

[donnnnnny]

next pic is again shot using a try pod slow speed and setting the incandecent white balance to -3. see how blue things appear giving the photo an artistic point of view

[donnnnnny]

next up is a photo of a water fall from the side using the tripod again slow speed to make the water appear flowing and the flash sb800 on auto. auto ,white balance

[donnnnnny]

next one is a sun set using the white balance on the fluro setting at -3 see how it brings out the orange more in this photo

[donnnnnny]

then this one same pic with white balance on incandcsent -2

[donnnnnny]

last one for now auto white balance using tripod and slow speed around 1/3 second using the manual speed setting on the nikon and allowing the camera to choose the f stop

[donnnnnny]

good night from australia

[Road Runner]

  Brilliant!   Reminds me of watching the sunset over the low hills behind Mackay in Queensland.

RR.

[Road Runner]

I'm looking at getting a new small snapshot camera which is pocketable.

After looking around carefully I have come up with this one:-  Canon Ixus 75

Anyone had any experience or got any comments about them?

By the way they are available for about £118-140 in the UK now.

RR.

[donnnnnny]

Sorry road runner cant help ya with rangefinders. i'm pretty sure the main brands canon nikon and kodak are all adequate for the job.

[BigTel]

Here are a couple of shots using the Fuji Digital no post production just as shot.