Origin, Past and Present

Once upon a time...... there was a boy.....


As this is my first blog I suppose I should start with the origin of my passion.

I don't know where it exactly began to honest...

I have an old photo of me as a child (will post it sometime in the future as I am not at my home country)
maybe 3 4 years old. And I am having this old case of an analog camera that my father use to have as a young man. I remember him in the bathroom under red light developing his photos. I always found it amazing!
Maybe it was growing in me ever since, I just didn't realized it.

So the years passed and I grew up wondering what I want to be in this life... Went from wanting to be a biologist, chemist, programmer, to guitarist, sk8er, magician :D

Until I realized I really like to take pictures in high school with my father's new digital camera which was some Chinese brand without a graphical lcd :D, which I used to take out and shoot without him knowing of course :D

Now that was a challenge and while I couldn't see what I was doing as there was no lcd I loved using the viewfinder (very poor quality at that time)

Resolution was the amazing 640x480pixesl of course with lots of compression and details missing in highlights and shadows but I loved it! And I always wanted more. Videos were like a thing of imagination. You can't look at the viewfinder while you are walking you will kill yourself but you can't look at the lcd as well, as there isn't one :D, you just had to point and hope it is pointing in the right direction :D and frame of the picture. Videos turned out quite nice for that time anyway :D

When 3.2MP of a mobile phone crushed my dad's camera I was trying to accomplish what I was looking for in a picture with my Sony Ericsson K770i which was later replaced by 5.0MP Sony Ericcson Elm.

Pictures were nice but there was no depth of field no shutter speed, no iso no nothing I could tweak and use. I was poor (still am :D) and couldn't afford even a good cheap small digital cam.

I somehow was able to buy myself a samsung "something" digital camera which had 4x optical zoom or something like that :D.
I always loved the manual mode even though I didn't fully understand it and there weren't many options altogether anyway.

Still not enough for me. I couldn't capture what I really see in my head, just a pale projection of it.
Had to go higher... but how? no money for it.

So I waited ... waited to finally get something better. A Panasonic Lumix FZ28...

Uuuuhh the joy. I was so happy I could take pictures as never before. Lots of manual controls, greater picture quality, depth of field. Great ZOOM.
I had it all... Well almost all. I found it very slow changing the manual focus with a joystick increments. Pain it was.

I knew I had something good but I still couldn't feel that it suited me just right.

So there I was selling it and saving for the next level... I always wanted to get a pro model DSLR but money is a big issue...So more time passed and I bought Nikon D5100 with the 18-55 Kit Lens (that's the top I could afford)
O. M. G. :D
this was amazing for me. such freedom of everything. Manual controls all over. Manual focus with my hand on the lens, + ZOOM manual with the hand. WoW. This was something I always wanted in my camera! Flip Screen wooo.

Amazing it was indeed.... Until I started getting more indepth with the controls I realized there was so much more I could do but not with this model.

I bought myself my first lens to swap the 18-55mm. It was the AF-S 1.8G Nikkor 50mm lens. Which gave me a lot of happiness and is one of my favorite lenses of all time. But I had to upgrade my camera body.

So I saved up for Nikon D7000.. Wooow such a major difference I saw in this upgrade. Still DX but hey I was happy! I bought a cheaper zoom lens AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300 mm f/4.5-5.6G for those long distant shots I was missing with my 50mm lens.

Quality wasn't brilliant but still great. Still used for my last shot so far.

Now I am saving for Nikon D810 Body. Should be able to buy it next month or so which I truly hope to be my greatest investment so far.
I hope it will be a major difference to what I know!

Will have to get more lenses for it but that at a later time.

Thanks for reading my story and stay tuned if you want to know how it unfolds.