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I used back in 2007 a compact camera (FinePix E900) with RAW capabilities for a couple of months - just enough to be more than interested in photography and to decide to buy a dSLR (Nikon D40). Flickr was initially only a way to share photos with the family.

At the beginning I joined, as many others, some post 1 score x groups to see what people think about the images I was uploading. Little by little I began to slow down the daily number of posts and joined smaller groups of people with interests or cameras similar to mines.

I use almost exclusively old manual focusing lenses on the Nikon D40 camera. The settings must be done manually and while it might take a little longer to take a picture, it gives one a feeling of power over the machine, quite delicious.

Two years after starting digital photography I became attracted to film photography with old cameras. Among my favorites are an Olympus XA compact rangefinder, a Minolta SRT303 with its 50mm f/1.7 SLR, a Ricohmatic 225 6x6 TLR medium format camera, a Nikkormat FT2 and a Canon EF.

The atraction to film photography comes from two things:

- it's a lot of fun to use old gear

- dynamic range is better (sunny images are nicer than on digital)