Gotbadger

Lots of things been going on over the last few months most importantly Ive picked up 2 new cameras a D40 and a Super Richoflex.

Super Richoflex

I was after a 6×6 Medium format camera where I could compose the shots to some reasonable degree also it needed to be cheap at the time I was getting a bit tired of the dianas shoot and hope for the best aproach. Enter the super richoflex a TLR camera from the 1950’s. Whats great about this camera is you can look though the top and get a really bright preview of your shot, whats not so great is that its in reverse this is a real problem if you use another camera then switch to the Richoflex. See below for a look at how it works

TLR In action

Im taking it slow on the medium format these days so Ive only taken 1 full films worth and comming up to complete on the second but so far the ricoflex seems so be pritty forgiving in terms photos actualy coming out even in not so great light if anything I ended up sligtly over exposing a lot of the shots on the first film.

Nikon D40

Ive wanted a digital SLR for a long and I finaly ended up getting one for my birthday in may. I think the problem with digital SLR’s Is that its a crazy world of features, features you have to sort through and decide what you need also things you woudlent thing of as too imporant at face value eg how good the menu system is can lead to massive frustration when when actualy using the camera. Oh and megapixes dont mean shit

I wont go into the pros and cons of things here but suffice to say in my research there where some things that stood out the D60 for instance has higher MP sensor than the D40 but its base sensitivity (ISO) is actualy worse the only thing thats better is its self cleaning. In the end I opted for a D40 with 2 lenses which with some discounts came to about 300 quid. The nikon came with a Nikkor 18-55mm a great general purpose and fairly light weight lense which is good for landscape and genral use. The second lense was a Tamron 70-300mm zoom I got this for wildlife shots, it also has a macro function thats quite fun to play about with.

Shooting on a digital turned out to be quite fun becuase your not really forced to wait for the perfect shot anything rubish you can discard which makes it great for shooting when theres lots of stuff going on. This is both a blessing and a curse in some ways becuase you can end up just shooting wildly hoping somthing that might be a good shot comes out rarther than looking for it…