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| 01-14-2016, 11:45 AM | #1 |
| Hello from snowy Syracuse
Hi all, finally getting around to posting something after having a lot of my questions answered over the last few months by looking through old threads here. Many of those questions came in November and December while I was doing lens shopping for my daughter, who is the primary photographer in the family. She'd had point-and-shoot cameras for several years but in 2013 I bought her a Ricoh XR-10 on eBay for $15 to use in photography class. Last Christmas her big gift was a K-50, bought with the two kit lenses, but she discovered very quickly that she preferred to shoot with the old manual lenses that came with the Ricoh. In fact, she never took the second lens out of the box until I reminded her that she had it, last week. Over the last year I gradually added a few more lenses, and then for this Christmas went slightly overboard!  She now has an assortment of classic K and M42 mount lenses like the Takumar 50mm f/1.4, Helios 44-2, Jupiter 37A and a bunch of others; mostly prime from 28 to 400mm, along with a handful of interesting zoom lenses like a Samyang 18-28mm and a Vivitar 85-205 f/3.8 (which weighs more than her camera). We also jumped into macro photography with a nice old Lentar bellows and matching lens, and I salvaged some objectives from a broken microscope and bought an adapter to play with them. In the meantime I started using her camera to test some of the lenses, and got the bug myself. So I picked up an old K-x for not very much money and started taking my own pictures. I'm learning a lot every day, frustrating at times but it's all good in the end. Yesterday was the unpleasant experience of finding lots of interesting shots after our lake effect snow storm and having the metering screwed up by too-bright snow, so everything came out a stop or two underexposed. Tomorrow it will probably be something else, but at least I will try not to repeat too many mistakes... | |
| 01-14-2016, 01:06 PM | #3 |
| Last edited by boriscleto; 01-14-2016 at 01:22 PM. | |
| 01-14-2016, 02:02 PM | #5 |
 Originally posted by owens-bill  she discovered very quickly that she preferred to shoot with the old manual lenses | |
| 01-15-2016, 04:06 AM | #7 |
| 01-15-2016, 08:21 AM | #8 |
| Originally posted by boriscleto Welcome from the snowy 'burbs of Syracuse. I don't know if you are aware, but there are several photography meetups in the Syracuse area. Good people in both of them... CNY Photographers (Cicero, NY) - Meetup Syracuse Photographers Association (Syracuse, NY) - Meetup If you're on Facebook there are several CNY photography groups as well. Amateur photographers of Central N.Y. is probably the most active. https://www.facebook.com/groups/167744426708188/ | |
| 01-15-2016, 10:31 AM | #9 |
| Originally posted by owens-bill Norm Schillawski of CNY Photographers lives a few doors down the street, but unfortunately I have another activity on Monday nights that conflicts with their monthly meeting. I'll take a look at the other Meetup group though, it sounds like their meetings might be at different times each month? And I just joined the Facebook group, thanks! | |
| 01-15-2016, 07:40 PM | #10 |
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