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Dave in Wales

Dave in Wales

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OK...Here goes.

I'm 66, retired design engineer, now living in glorious West Wales.

My main hobby, from birth I think, has allways been watches with photography (on and off) coming a close second.

Back in the 70's and 80's I held various offices in my local Photographic Society, The Hornchurch and Havering.

My wife and I would splash around for hours in the darkroom producing colour and B&W prints up to 20" x 16" from 35mm and 6mm x 6mm negs...OH those were the days.

Cameras were Nikon F2AS's, F3HP's and Mamiya C330s 6x6.
The enlarger was a Durst M707K fitted with a Schnieder Componon S
80mm f4 and a EL Nikkor 50mm f2.8 N.

This stuff must seem like the Dark Ages to many of you but I hope that
It means something to a few of what I like to call 'True' photographers.

No offence intended to all the Digi fans, I'm now one myself.

I have the usual compact digi's and am now considering a DSLR (possibly, well maybe) that's when I can understand the focal lengths. It was all so simple in the old days, I knew what 24,35,50,80, 70-210 meant.

But now what the heck is a 18-55....?

D in W
 
Hi Dave and welcome.
I too am a convert to digital.
When I did my own B&W D&P I too used that Nikkor enlarging lens you mentioned. Film cameras were Nikkormat FT3, Nikon FM2 & FE2. All gone now and digital only here.
 
Dave in Wales said:
I have the usual compact digi's and am now considering a DSLR (possibly, well maybe) that's when I can understand the focal lengths. It was all so simple in the old days, I knew what 24,35,50,80, 70-210 meant.

But now what the heck is a 18-55....?

D in W
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It's dead easy to work out. The more letters and numbers that come where your elipses are, the more it's gonna cost. What they stand for though :thinking:
 
Welcome to the forum ..... only true photographers in here.

18-55??

I asume you are referring to a lens. This is a reference to focal length range of a zoom, 18mm to 55mm. Absolutely no difference to film SLR in this respect.

18-55 mm zooms are often sold as kit lenses with nw cameras. Now if you had asked about crop factors, well that is digi specific.
 
:wave:Hi Dave - welcome to TP :thumbs:. Don't forget to call into the Film and Conventional section, there's still a few of us left shooting film in there, (some of us shoot both film and dijikal :lol:) and a few new converts that may find your input handy.
 
hi dave
i think a lot of us have cut teeth on camera club critiques and done the 35mm thing as well

digital is quite fun and so much so i have sold nearly all the film stuff
 
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