Photography

I have gone through a bewildering variety of cameras, many in medium format, including a Hasselblad 500C/M that I still use.

New England fall foliage made me do that.

Post-film, I used a bunch of Coolpix cameras, and for about 10 years, a Coolpix P-510 with 24-1000mm effective zoom.
Needless to say, that covers a lot of ground, and I got great results. Still do.
It suited me so well that I skipped the entire DSLR generation and went to mirrorless from it

My motivation in upgrading was honestly, to get wider than 24mm field of view, and I explored all options in all formats.
Nikon Z won, especially since it can use all my old Nikon-F lenses, with no retrofitting of the auto-index tab, which the DSLR's demanded.

That came in real handy for comet photos because the old lenses are fast, and do not focus past infinity as new motor-driven lenses do.

Latest is a Nikon Z7-II, used mostly with the 14-30 zoom, which is a spectacular lens.

I rarely use, but am still eager to use a Nagaoka 4X5 field camera, all hand-made by Mr. Nagaoka and assistant, the most beautiful camera ever, with lenses that were affordable at the time. All this gear is just so heavy.
Some big outfit bought the design.

Here's a pic.



and a very old review