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I am part of the digital revolution ... and I live in the UK in sunny Lincolnshire. Well okay, it's sunny some of the time.

I started taking photos when I was but a wee nipper, at the age of five or six. I recently scanned and uploaded one of my very first photos that I ever took. See here :D

My main camera use is a Nikon D80 D-SLR, which for the money is a superb bit of kit, and I highly recommend them. Attached to this normally, is either my Sigma 105mm Macro or Sigma 17-70mm zoom. Sad as it is, my F90x sits gathering dust these days, though I do still like using the Olympus OM10 I have, along with its nice bright primes, mostly for B&W. Although recently I've gotten back in to film, and I'm snapping away with a Nikon F5 and EOS 3 - both beasts of cameras.

My long loved Nikon D50 with the 13,000 odd shots that have passed through the shutter has gone to a new home. It will be missed because it's taken some nice shots and has been utterly reliable. My brother has taken control of the camera, so I hope he makes as good a use of it as I did.

When I'm not lugging a D-SLR around Lincolnshire and my travels, you'll find me carrying a Casio Exilim Z850, an Olympus C5050Z, a Canon A420 or even one of the cheap digital cameras I bought: a Vivitar ViviCam 3345 (1.3 MP) or a Jenoptik JD C3.1 LCD (3MP) - if you want to see pics from a cheap digicam, check out the link below. Dismiss point and shoot cameras at your peril.

Still working on a personal project at the moment:

* The £12 Digicam Camera Project - proving that you don't need a £3K lens and camera setup to get nice pics - I keep forgetting to take the cheapy camera with me though :/

I try to upload my best shots to flickr, for more casual photography, I bung my stuff in Picasa Web Albums

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I do have a bit of (well a lot really) Camera Acquisition Syndrome (CAS) - this is a list of most of the stuff I have:

DSLRs

Nikon D2Xs, Nikon D80, Nikon D40, Nikon D70, Canon 10D, Canon 20D, Fujifilm S2 Pro, Fujifilm S3 Pro

Digital compacts:

Casio Exilim EX Z850, Olympus C-50, Olympus C-480, Olympus C-2040Z, Olympus C-3030Z, Olympus C-4040Z, Olympus C-5050Z, Olympus C-420L, Olympus C-920, Canon A420, Canon A540, Canon G5, Minolta Dimage 2330 Zoom, Mustek DV5200, Mustek DV4000, Vivitar DVR-310 ( x two ), Vivitar DVR-510, Vivitar 3345, Nikon L11, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S650.

And film Cameras

Canon EOS 3, Canon EOS 5, Nikon F5, Nikon F4, Nikon F100, Nikon F80, Nikon F50, Nikon F90x Pro ( x two ), Nikon EM, Olympus OM-1, Olympus OM-10 ( x two ), Olympus OM-30, Olympus Trip 35 ( x three ), Praktica MTL50, Praktica MTL5, Pentax MV, Pentax ME Super (this one is in bits at the mo).
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Enjoy taking your photos ... and if I comment on your pic it's because I really like it, not because I have to - there's some sterling work on flickr that often goes unseen.



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