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I’ve got a Nikon camera. I love to take photographs.

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Nikon D80It’s time to put the Kodachrome down to rest. I finally broke down, joined the digital revolution, and bought the Nikon D80 for myself. It is close to my birthday after all.  So far I love the D80s big display on the back and the sharpness of the images. I picked it over any of the Canons cause I’m a Nikon guy and all my old Nikon lenses fit as well. It just feels great in my hand.  I have the D70s at work and the D80 is quite a step up from that.  It’s 10.2 megapixel and has a great display zoom feature to get right in to the details of the image. The histogram has been improved from the D70 to give the color spectrums as well.

I ordered the kit from Adorama with an 18-55mm zoom lens. I have a 70-300mm so the smaller zoom was ok for me. It’s nice and light and will be great for traveling since I have a trip planned for Cancun, MX in a couple weeks and a business trip to Germany a little bit after that.

I have a couple series ideas too and will probably be taking another session of basement-portraits on New Years.

Author: Dirk Watkins

Dirk Watkins was born in Door County. He studied computer science and art at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Dirk now works as a web application developer in Milwaukee programming mostly in c#, javascript, sql queries and the occasional actionscript. For design he likes to utilize as much css (positioning and styles) as possible. Dirk uses Dreamweaver, Visual Studio 2005, Flash and Photoshop daily and lots of other random programs frequently. In his spare time Dirk plays guitar, reads, listens to NPR, works on his house, and sleeps on quiet beaches.

2 Comments

  1. Probably something with fire. And/or pastries. I like pastries.

  2. what kind of series are you thinking about Nikon man;)

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