After years of devotion to my weird and wonderful collection of analogue cameras I've finally dragged myself kicking and screaming into the modern world. I've cracked and bought myself a digital SLR after much indecision. Of course being a camera geek it's compulsory that you spend at least four months reading endless reviews before making any kind of purchase. In the end I plumped for a Nikon D7000 to sit alongside my much loved old Nikon F3.
I'm still getting to grips with not having to wind the film on after each shot, but I had a little play with it last night and I'm enjoying it so far. Just for fun I thought I'd have a quick go at animating the Mexican skull above. Clearly lighting isn't one of my strengths, and with the benefit of hindsight I should have turned the TV off first as well but not to worry. It was really good fun mucking about with something a bit different that would have been a bit more of a faff using film.
It's a whole brave new world out there of memory cards, video, RAW files and all kinds of new-fangled technology. I'm not quite sure I'm ready for it yet, but I guess even a stubborn fucker like myself has to give it a go...
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