Well, you "young guys" make me feel more confident about my views and philosophy of photography! I'm just seventy-seven and bought my first 35 mm camera (Robot Star) in 1960, and started dark room work seriously that same year. Almost sixty years of my life has flown by since then. My Nikon F2SB sits stored with my Nikon FE, but all my "heritage" glass, bought in 1977/80 along with my Dome is back in use again, and I've actually bought three additional "as new" Nikon lenses, a 24 f2, pancake 50mm f1.8 and a 35mm f2.8 PC. These beautiful old lenses manually focus perfectly, easily, with my Df, even with my old eyes, and I can use aperture preferred or manual exposure and the other camera controls without fishing about to find correct menus, yet still enjoy the fun side and the fantastic attributes of digital photography. Wake up, Sony et al.
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John Strain
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I like the proverb.
John Strain
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Thanks Contac C for the "young guys" . I'm 71 and began photography when I was 10 with an Agfa Clack which I still have. I must give it a try again sometime. So far as I remember, it didn't actually clack!