By some accident, I found myself the winner of an ebay auction for a Nikon F6 just over an hour ago.
Let me explain myself...
I bought my Nikon D40X when I was in Japan almost two years ago. Now, Japan is practically photography equipment heaven if you live in Tokyo, because there are so many branches of the two big chains, Bic Camera and Yodobashi Camera around, and they display their camera gear freely for anyone to feel and try. The bigger stores, in particular, even had most of the Nikon and Canon lenses displayed for you to try as much as you like (without walking away with it, of course).
The camera bodies, though, where displayed in all the stores for trying, if I don't recall wrongly. The D300 and D3 didn't feel that impressive then, though their price tags were astronomical to me at that point of time.
That was the time when I first handled the Nikon F6. Even before I first picked it up (not sure when exactly, but it must have been early 2008), I was shocked by the price tag -- over 260,000 yen (about S$4k)??? For a film camera??? Isn't film already obsolete as hell??? Who would buy something like this???
Yet at the same time, I also thought to myself: once I become skilled enough in photography, film is where I would want to be. I'm not sure where I got that from, but it's always been at the back of my head. Getting the Nikon F6, which many believe will be Nikon's last film camera, will be a mark of my progress in photography.
On a certain level, I think I have learnt enough about using a camera to move on to that stage.
But there was another push factor -- I am certainly no master photographer yet. I have been spending many hours on the computer processing my photos over the past three or four years, perhaps a little more. I'd been doing that even when I only had my Sony point-and-shoot, which finally died on me when I was in Japan. And when I moved on to shooting in RAW and processing them in Capture NX 2, the time I need to process photos on my 4-year-old X41 got longer.
I already spend about 10 hours a day at work staring at the computer nowadays. Should I be doing the same thing when I'm home? In a way I had become a slave to the computer.
I guess I'll end here, I get ahead of myself. I need to go make payment for my F6 first.
In the meantime, take a look at this article. It's well worth a read, even for people who started out with digital like me.
Let me explain myself...
I bought my Nikon D40X when I was in Japan almost two years ago. Now, Japan is practically photography equipment heaven if you live in Tokyo, because there are so many branches of the two big chains, Bic Camera and Yodobashi Camera around, and they display their camera gear freely for anyone to feel and try. The bigger stores, in particular, even had most of the Nikon and Canon lenses displayed for you to try as much as you like (without walking away with it, of course).
The camera bodies, though, where displayed in all the stores for trying, if I don't recall wrongly. The D300 and D3 didn't feel that impressive then, though their price tags were astronomical to me at that point of time.
That was the time when I first handled the Nikon F6. Even before I first picked it up (not sure when exactly, but it must have been early 2008), I was shocked by the price tag -- over 260,000 yen (about S$4k)??? For a film camera??? Isn't film already obsolete as hell??? Who would buy something like this???
Yet at the same time, I also thought to myself: once I become skilled enough in photography, film is where I would want to be. I'm not sure where I got that from, but it's always been at the back of my head. Getting the Nikon F6, which many believe will be Nikon's last film camera, will be a mark of my progress in photography.
On a certain level, I think I have learnt enough about using a camera to move on to that stage.
But there was another push factor -- I am certainly no master photographer yet. I have been spending many hours on the computer processing my photos over the past three or four years, perhaps a little more. I'd been doing that even when I only had my Sony point-and-shoot, which finally died on me when I was in Japan. And when I moved on to shooting in RAW and processing them in Capture NX 2, the time I need to process photos on my 4-year-old X41 got longer.
I already spend about 10 hours a day at work staring at the computer nowadays. Should I be doing the same thing when I'm home? In a way I had become a slave to the computer.
I guess I'll end here, I get ahead of myself. I need to go make payment for my F6 first.
In the meantime, take a look at this article. It's well worth a read, even for people who started out with digital like me.
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