John Clark
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This post may be considered to be a tad premature, as will be explained later on.
Let me introduce myself.
I am John Clark from the Glasgow area in Scotland, and I am planning to get back into photography when I retire next year. My previous experience of photography was decades ago, solely in the film medium whilst in the British Army; using mainly Pentax cameras, the ME followed by the MX and I also had the original Pentax Auto 110 (the complete system in a pocket … Which I used as my “happy snappy”, always carry camera). I even dabbled in my own darkroom developing and printing (B&W only), even to having my own complete darkroom equipment. When I left the Army, I slowly drifted away from photography due to work, time and expense constraints.
So much for my photographic history, now to the present day …
I have absolutely no experience in this new fangled <grin> digital equipment or editing software and this is why this post could be considered premature as I have no camera and only some editing software as yet
The only software that I have at present is Photos on my iMac 27” (Retina 5K) desktop, with everything ramped up to the max available, I also recently bought the full stand-alone macphun Creative Kit 2016 … Why you ask, buy the full editing suit when I have no camera as yet …
Simples, say I … I had already purchased the Noiseless macphun stand-alone app (to improve some scans of old photographs I took in the 70s) and macphun was doing a fantastic deal as an existing customer on the full suit of stand-alone apps. So I took the opportunity of purchasing the full suit, knowing that I will be using them in the future.
Now to my plans for next year …
I have all but decided to purchase the Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 as my main and only camera, it seems to be a good all round camera for the non-professional hobbyist photographer and gets good reviews from all.
As I have no plans of specialising in one area of photography (but, that could change), being an enthusiastic amateur, this camera seems (to me) to be a good starting point …
I have joined this group to get a “head start” on digital photography and editing, to get guidance and advice from my peers and betters in the craft.
Thank you for reading this missive.
(Edited to add a missed closing bracket ... I'm a pedant that way ...)
Let me introduce myself.
I am John Clark from the Glasgow area in Scotland, and I am planning to get back into photography when I retire next year. My previous experience of photography was decades ago, solely in the film medium whilst in the British Army; using mainly Pentax cameras, the ME followed by the MX and I also had the original Pentax Auto 110 (the complete system in a pocket … Which I used as my “happy snappy”, always carry camera). I even dabbled in my own darkroom developing and printing (B&W only), even to having my own complete darkroom equipment. When I left the Army, I slowly drifted away from photography due to work, time and expense constraints.
So much for my photographic history, now to the present day …
I have absolutely no experience in this new fangled <grin> digital equipment or editing software and this is why this post could be considered premature as I have no camera and only some editing software as yet
The only software that I have at present is Photos on my iMac 27” (Retina 5K) desktop, with everything ramped up to the max available, I also recently bought the full stand-alone macphun Creative Kit 2016 … Why you ask, buy the full editing suit when I have no camera as yet …
Simples, say I … I had already purchased the Noiseless macphun stand-alone app (to improve some scans of old photographs I took in the 70s) and macphun was doing a fantastic deal as an existing customer on the full suit of stand-alone apps. So I took the opportunity of purchasing the full suit, knowing that I will be using them in the future.
Now to my plans for next year …
I have all but decided to purchase the Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 as my main and only camera, it seems to be a good all round camera for the non-professional hobbyist photographer and gets good reviews from all.
As I have no plans of specialising in one area of photography (but, that could change), being an enthusiastic amateur, this camera seems (to me) to be a good starting point …
I have joined this group to get a “head start” on digital photography and editing, to get guidance and advice from my peers and betters in the craft.
Thank you for reading this missive.
(Edited to add a missed closing bracket ... I'm a pedant that way ...)
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