A great retreat, when I'm really discouraged, is photo gear browsing. So I have been all over the web - Nikon's site, Amazon, B&H - checking out cameras and lenses. Last night I dragged out the gear I used when I made my living snagging photons. There's the F4 kit I used, just before hanging 'em up for high tech (seen above). There are the F3s and FMs with their fixed-focal-length lenses (how quaint).

I'm really interested in 12-24mm zooms for digital cameras (equivalent of 18 to 35mm on 35mm format). I'm also looking at higher resolution than my Leica (5 megapixel) and Nikons (6.1 megapixel). I looked at Hasselblad's answer to the 8x10 film camera, a 39 megapixel SLR that goes for $30,000. And then I settled on Nikon's new D200, a 10.2 megapixel model that goes for much less. Linda gets very nervous when she spies me looking at cameras and lenses on the web. Just looking, dear...
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