Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
06-10-2017, 05:38 PM
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Needles District, Canyonlands National Park
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
06-10-2017, 05:35 PM
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Jumping cholla, Joshua Tree National Park
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
06-10-2017, 05:09 PM
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My K-1 is on the way...woohoo! Until then, I'll attempt to post a pic or two from my old ZX-5N/FA 20-35 days.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
06-08-2017, 04:04 PM
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Thanks all and thanks Tas for that link - I have been searching quite a bit but had not seen that thread...excellent!
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
06-08-2017, 02:27 PM
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Hello all, my name is Sean from southern California.
My dad gave me my first SLR in college for an architectural photography course, circa 1997 - it was an old Spotmatic with a 35mm lens if I recall correctly. I got a D in the course but found that I really enjoyed photography! :lol:
After graduating college I dove into a more modern SLR (at the time) with the Pentax ZX-5N and kit lens. Gravitated towards landscape photography almost immediately and picked up the FA20-35 F4. This was my rig for a long time, always shooting Fuji transparency film. Great rig for landscape, and I still have it.
Eventually I added a 645n to the arsenal and a couple of the FA zooms (45-85 and 80-160). I was really excited about exploring medium format...but only got to go through a few rolls of film with it before the whole rig was stolen out of a storage unit :mad:
That was a major setback for me and the recession definitely limited my photography spending for a while as well. I gravitated towards much smaller camera gear and have shot the Panasonic Lumix LX-3 since about 2009. Great little landscape-friendly camera, but limited in certain areas and getting very long in the tooth these days.
So I am about to click 'buy' on a K-1. Very excited to jump back into more serious photography. I have borrowed, rented and played with many other brands but this will be my first DSLR, and it had to be a Pentax! :cool:
Still figuring out my plans for lenses on the K-1...curious to see how the FA 20-35 will do for me. Pentax Forums has been a great resource in this regard over the past couple weeks. Even though I am primarily a landscape guy, I really love the rendering of the FA 77 limited and am thinking about making that my first lens purchase. In recent years I have found that I like to stich landscape panos together and I am thinking the 77 might do a nice job there in addition to its obvious pedigree as a portrait lens.
Anyway, glad to be part of the community and very much looking forward to getting my hands on Pentax's current offerings. I'll come back and post a few pics of my Pentax history.
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