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Building in Oslo. Taken with my Nikon D80 & Sigma 30/1.4. F/8, 1/100s, iso100, flattened and slightly cropped in DXO Optics.
I'm at a point where I've figured out that I'm a normal kind of guy. Zoom doesn't interest me. I don't want to go wider than I already am, with my 30mm. What I do want is more resolution, and a *much* better viewfinder. The (ancient) D80 is... well - not up to snuff anymore. I know it well, and I can make every shot count - it's in my fingers and my head, what I can capture with my normal, and what I should pass on and just enjoy with my eyes.
I estimate that I take less than a dozen pictures a month. Partly because I'm stuck in a boring region and don't bring my camera out much, and partly because I value quality over quantity. This is a long-term trend, I'm not one of those shutterbugs who wear out shutters and annoy people. I'm a quiet one that carefully select what I want, frame it in my mind, and then deliberately brings out the camera and quickly make it happen, and then carry on. Bought my D80 in 2007. I'm up to 9500 shutter activations on my D80, and probably half of those come from one time where I lent it to my brother for a month and he took thousands of pictures of his kids.
I'm a sucker for bokeh, and lenses that "get" geometry right. I hate how I need to resort to DXO to make my current combination draw straight lines without distortion. Sometimes I feel like having wide open creamy dream bokeh. This is important enough to make me forget entirely about anything less than APS-C, if I'm to stay digital. I sold my Sigma 85/1.4 because it just didn't feel right to have it just sitting there idle.
I'm at a point where I've figured out that I'm a normal kind of guy. Zoom doesn't interest me. I don't want to go wider than I already am, with my 30mm. What I do want is more resolution, and a *much* better viewfinder. The (ancient) D80 is... well - not up to snuff anymore. I know it well, and I can make every shot count - it's in my fingers and my head, what I can capture with my normal, and what I should pass on and just enjoy with my eyes.
I estimate that I take less than a dozen pictures a month. Partly because I'm stuck in a boring region and don't bring my camera out much, and partly because I value quality over quantity. This is a long-term trend, I'm not one of those shutterbugs who wear out shutters and annoy people. I'm a quiet one that carefully select what I want, frame it in my mind, and then deliberately brings out the camera and quickly make it happen, and then carry on. Bought my D80 in 2007. I'm up to 9500 shutter activations on my D80, and probably half of those come from one time where I lent it to my brother for a month and he took thousands of pictures of his kids.
I'm a sucker for bokeh, and lenses that "get" geometry right. I hate how I need to resort to DXO to make my current combination draw straight lines without distortion. Sometimes I feel like having wide open creamy dream bokeh. This is important enough to make me forget entirely about anything less than APS-C, if I'm to stay digital. I sold my Sigma 85/1.4 because it just didn't feel right to have it just sitting there idle.
