Let's See What You've Got And What You Like

[Brian Wise]

Hey Terry,

We have a Nikon D50 DSLR with 50mm prime, 70-300mm, and a 400 mm prime lens, along with my Olympus Stylus 850 SW (waterproof baby!) My wife mostly uses the SLR as she won't let me take it on the water very much...and I don't blame her. Like Flysmallie the lower end "D" series from Nikon are a fairly inexpensive (for SLR's) and they are stellar.

I think you would be suprised what the newer point and shoot cameras can do. You can mess with shutter speed, white ballance, etc.

Some photos from the SLR(these are my photos, by wife's are SO MUCH BETTER):

Slow Shutter

Super fast shutter (this shot was with a lens that was on it's last leg and still no blur) That is a TFO TICRX and that cast went about 110'.

Depth of Field (the net in the background was about 1 1/2' behind the fish....DOF is what I REALLY like about SLR's)

My wife now has a 50mm prime lens that literally will shoot a DOF that will have the tip of your nose in focus and you eyes out of focus...too cool.

Panning (FLW Tour at LOZ)

Photos from the Olympus Point and Shoot:

My wife shooting her SLR

A 'tiny' bit of DOF...going to opposite way, and not intentional

The main thing I am seriously loving about the P&S is the insane Macro shots....my wife is even jealous of the macro you can get from a P&S.

Another thing. To me editing a solid photo is half the fun. How many different looks can you get from a B&W photo--A TON! There are a lot of different editing programs available, some are HUGE (Photoshop CS2 that my wife edits with is crazy, crazy) and then something like Picassa that is free from Google is what I edit with. Sure you are a little bit limited on what you can do with it but it works well.

Brian

Edit: I kind of went crazy with photos, sorry.

[ecce38]

Check out the Pentax K20. The body is backwards compatible with every pentax lens ever produced. I'm using one of my father's 50mm primes from 1977!