Photos with New 50mm Nikkor on S3-2000

You lads are making me want a meterless camera in a near-obsolete lensmount again. Stop it. Stop it, now.

(Pulls himself together)

I particularly love the way that lens handles being pointed straight at light sources. I, um, tend to do that deliberately.

(And Mr. C, I miss your other avatar, the one with the charismatic young lady with the glasses and the great big camera. Always liked that one.)
 
>> Mr. C, I miss your other avatar<<

It began to seem odd to me that the rest of the world was seeing me as my then-5-year-old daughter. She's 7 now, and a change seemed appropriate.
 
But she still handles a Nikon S2 with both eyes open. She can appreciate the importance of a 1:1 viewfinder (when she isn't lured by those WYSIWYG SLRs).

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You really need to save that picture for her Vince....so she can look back in twenty years and appreciate the head start!

So far two of mine have passed on my offer of one of my extra F's and some lenses. I won't even bother the other two...they are already into PS digital technology.
 
...the shot of my grandson at the kitchen cabinet is a 35mm F1.8 shot....love that lens for the speed and definition. Just comparing shots taken with it and either 35mm F2.5 (chrome or black) I think the 35mm F1.8 gives the kind of results I like.
 
>>the shot of my grandson at the kitchen cabinet is a 35mm F1.8 shot....love that lens for the speed and definition. Just comparing shots taken with it and either 35mm F2.5 (chrome or black) I think the 35mm F1.8 gives the kind of results I like<<

I've never been able to put my finger on it, but I've always had a slight preference for look of the 35/1.8 over the f/2.5. It's subtle and probably has to do with that elusive Leica concept of micro-contrast, but there always seems to be a little extra definition with the /1.8 lens, even though both examples are super sharp.
 
>> You really need to save that picture for her Vince....so she can look back in twenty years and appreciate the head start!<<

I have no illusions about either of my daughters using 75-year-old cameras once they're grown up. What I'm giving them -- and hopefully their children and grandchildren -- is a large library of photographs documenting what it was like to grow up in suburban America in the early part of the 21st century. I get all the negatives scanned and have the most important images archived on remote computers.

EDIT: By the way, the picture of her with the F was taken with my S3-2000 and 85/2 Nikkor. I really mean it when I say I don't use SLRs anymore, except for the occassional soccer shots.
 
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Jenni,
Thanks.
I use Fujifilm 400 that I get from my local discount store.

>>Unlike about 75% of people I see shooting -- she knows how to cradle the camera properly!<<
Fred, I guess she copies her papa. She's the mimick of the family, which is one of the reasons she is so expressive when photographed.
 
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