I've been feeling the urge to get back into photography.
I've dabbled in photography from time to time since 1972 when I bought an Asahi Pentax on Okinawa for $138. I bought that camera at an off-base camera shop on Highway 1. At the time that was an expensive camera. I still have it and had it refurbished a few years ago. Of course it's a film camera so it's basically obsolete. I loved that camera and took a lot of pictures with it while overseas. I have zero of those pictures in my possession though as they disappeared in my divorce thirty something years ago.
In the eighties I bought a Minolta SLR which of course is another film camera. I still have it too but haven't used it in years either. A few years back I bought a Canon PowerShot digital camera and I've used it a lot. It's been an excellent camera although a bit heavy for my tastes. Last Christmas Mrs. Medlock gave me a Casio lightweight point and shoot digital camera that's been perfect for casual photography. It's over 7 mg pixels and I took it with me to New England, Russia and Las Vegas last year and recently to Hilton Head. All the pictures on my Flickr account are from that camera and I've been very happy with it as a P & S.
Anyway I've always had an interest in photography and I'm thinking it's time to get a little more serious with a SLR so I'm probably going to buy a Nikon D40. Alecto has intrigued me with her Nikon D80 photographs and I did some research after reading this at Instapundit. That deal goes through July 6th but basically it looks like I can get a D40 with two lenses for about six hundred bucks. All the research I've done points me toward the D40 mostly because I don't like large or heavy cameras (odd since both my Pentax and Minolta are just that).
So I'm biding my time looking for the best deal. I would like to buy it from Amazon but we shall see. I'm getting excited though. For one thing I think it will be cool to photo blog which is something I will definitely do.
June 17, 2008 in
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