new camera :) first photos with it

Great photos, Vivien! (Can't you change to b&w on the camera itself?).

[I've my new camera (Nikon D200) now more than 1/2 year and some thousand photos - still finding some new items to be explored :wink: ]

Great, I always loved photography.
And even though I am using a digital at the moment, too, I cannot wait, until I have time and space to print my own photographs again.

What camera did you buy?
I love good deals like that.

yes, I can change in the camera - but if I change in photoshop I can play with the contrast and levels (of course I still can if I've set the camera up). Using the camera on b&w is one of the things on the list to experiment with

I just love the fact that it will focus down to 1cm in super macro as I love macro photography.

Well, I have a 50 mm, f=2.8, 1:1 macro lens - have to have, my other lenses go only down to 1:3.

It's just that I can use all my lenses with the old (and much cheaper) analogue F80 as well. (Paid for my D200 1.600 Euros in late April - you get them cheaper now, too - but since I wanted it for my USA trip ...)

Beautiful!

I am impressed!

Beautiful! Your blurred picture of a small stream reminds me of an impressionistic painting.

Hi Bohne and Dupre - I don't think I've 'talked' to you before?

Walter your camera sounds great and you've taken some lovely photos that I've seen on here.

I got a Fuji finepix s9500 - someone on another site directed me to a forum for users of this model, which I'm sure I'll find useful and fun.

It does 28mm-300mm optical zoom and then 2x digital - the zoom is as important to me as the macro. I really like to frame a picture as I want it in the first place and only need to crop to square or whatever, rather than have to crop in to the centre of the image like I did with my old one.

I've got a lot of learning still to do but it's beginning to feel comfortable accessing the different features. At first it was just a blur!

Phoenix that's exactly how I felt about the blurred one and I can see it leading into an abstract painting , trying to keep elements of water and woods, without actually depicting them.

Phoenix how are you gettng on with yours? you bought a new camera not so long ago didn't you?

Oh wow! Really lovely!

I SO covet a digital camera... sigh... someday.

well Soz they are cheaper to run - can you justify it that way :wink:

And you don't need hundred of boxes to store the prints [but I had to buy an external 250 GB external device] :wink:

me too! but I'm wondering how long to fill even that up!

Wow, Vivien!
Terrific shots!

I love the cropped flowers #2 & #3, I think.