Some thoughts about gear………

If you’ve come here before, you’ve no doubt seen some gear posts! This year is my 56th year of being a serious photographer. I’ve been super serious from the day I started, thus the Nikon, Nikkormat FTN above! I was a high school teacher and football coach and decided I had always wanted a “real” camera so I went out and bought one, how was I to know that would change my life! For the next 38 years I was mostly a Nikon shooter! I had some flings with large format (4X5) Medium format cameras (Mamiya TwinLens Reflex and RB-67 and Pentax 645), a short affair with Konica, but mostly a long happy marriage with Nikon! The reason was simple; for almost all those years Nikon dominated the pro market and that is what I fancied myself as being, a Pro! Nikon was reliable, had one of the very best lines of lenses, both in diversity and quality and I learned on that system, was used to it and loved it! I even ended up joining Nikon as a Pro Market Tech Rep and NPS (Nikon Professional Services) Rep…