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I would sort "most" Would think most people would not have one location for their photos/images. In other words if you posted a photo to the old or previous version of Photo.Net, wouldn't you also retain a copy, or alias of that same images somewhere else, accessible? Ie your computer or a USB stick or CD anything other than an on-line photo posting location?

<p>Tony Parsons:<br> Consider yourself fortunate you have steam powered trains. Here in Southern Ontario at Canada the two major railways CN and CP only think of money. Hence as opposed to the UK where I assume you are, freight trains have as much or greater frequency than passenger trains. Two and three mile long freight trains hauling chemicals in tank cars, endless string of automobile carrier cars, often two or three miles of them. Then too neither railway wants steam power disturbing their business; both have effectively banned steam traction for excursions; no delays for any reason. Steam trains don't make money for the stockholder!<br> As one person suggested in a private e-mail, do the photography for yourself, not for others. And if at some point you're not satisfied, stop. Nobody will care one way or the other. Good thought now that it has been suggested.</p>

<p>The drone is operated by the captain on the sailing ship, would expect the tiller is on auto-pilot. Must be nice to have the money and be able to have the health and the time to enjoy such a pleasure. <br> Obviously Gerry I have no qualms using computers, have two iMacs and a hefty MacBook Pro; it is my much older in years friends who won't go near a computer. I do find though the youngsters (those less than 40 years of age) now communicate and take photographs with their telephones; it is almost a race to see who gets that special image or view that nobody else has obtained, oh and post same on one or two of those special websites. The young folk want nothing to do with us old parts; trust me, have asked. <br> Am thinking Gerry of a friend, same age as I am minus a year who spends our Canadian winters in the Honolulu area for five months each winter. A retired farmer, he is single like me and enjoys his winters in an island location that is less expensive than here to live and there's no shovelling of snow. He does not take photos, of anything. <br> I enjoy my winters; it makes me what i am I guess. 'Sides am unable to travel stateside, the cost of medical health insurance is prohibitive.</p>

<p>In mid June 2014 posted in this forum of my dis-satisfaction with my own photography; end result sold all my gear. Did no more photography for some time; was observing the rapid demise of affordable E-6 slide film processing here in Canada; thought maybe if I returned on a digital basis it might inspire me to take up the hobby again. Purchased a Nikon D750, it felt good in my hand and appropriate glass and off I went. Incidentally i photograph only railways, never other items or living things (people).<br> Of late due to increasing physical mobility issues have been once again been rethinking, why bother? Use a cane or a four wheel walker if I wish to move any distance or even stand track side and photograph a moving train.<br> Was looking at one of the newer offerings from Nikon the other day, a bridge style camera with a permanently installed long to short focal length lens.<br> Given my tendency to record only in JPEG and realizing as i age physically perhaps some form of lighter in weight all in one digital photographic device might be more practical. Find my mobility is rapidly declining due to physical issues, with no medically assisted relief in sight. Am seeing a geriatric psychiatrist to help with my physical and yes mental changes. Aging is not for sissies.</p> Have found borrowed-from-friends smaller so-called point and shoot mirror-less cameras are often physically way too small to handle comfortably. My hands are enormous. <p>Generally I do not share images with others; and if I did would probably do only as 4" x 6" prints. I photograph perhaps 150 images a month;, with the lamented loss of Kodachrome and colour slides the whole railway photographic world has changed. Many of my similar aged compatriots (over 70 years of age) who do not own nor desire to own a computer no longer do photography, or even own a cell phone for that matter. Of-times they review their massive collections of past railway colour slides dreaming of what was, then.<br> Presently using Nikon D750/24-105mm zoom/70-200mm f4.0 /20mm f.2.8 hardware. <br> Your thoughts, please.</p>

<p>This is a topic, for me easily solved. Nikon was the first "proper"camera available to me in Canada. Canon was not even on the horizon and when they did appear, it was as electrostatic copiers.<br> Then too before moving to Nikon (Nikon F c/w 50mm lense), purchased used from one of numerous camera shops on Yonge Street in Toronto, the price was about C$85.00, a week's salary, then.<br> And I should add my photo gear up until then had been Pentax, Spotmatic. Problem was many of us had friends/contacts at the various camera retail outlets which sold Nikon, and most weekends, lenses could be borrowed/rented for next to nothing. Also many of us swapped lenses when on streetcar photography expeditions in Toronto, other than yours truly, it was all Nikon.<br> So for me it was convenience. I kept my Pentax for a period for black and white, however Pentax was next to worthless on the used market; traded my Pentax gear for my first zoom lense.<br> An acquainiance, who was with Uncle Sam's Canoe Club during the Vietnam conflict showed me the first Canon i'd seen, purchased overseas. Similar in construction to the Pentax, seemed OK, but once a Nikon person, always a Nikon person.</p> <p> </p>

<p>Over the years have whittled my choice of lenses down to three. Specifically a much loved old Nikkor 28-105 f3.5 (recently overhauled for the third time) and two more or less recent purchases: the 70-200 f4.0 and the relatively cheap 50mm f1.8. Now with this glass I photograph only one thing, trains. Railway trains, 90 percent locomotives but virtually all my photography is trains, trains and more trains. My current DSLR is a Nikon D750, back to Nikon Canada for the now third time in nine months. The camera has been a lemon. Suspect too because my gear is bounced around a bit it suffers. Have played with this digital format for too long, without satisfying personal results. My Nikon F100 has once again been pressed into service, again loaded with Fuji E-6. Railway photographers use slide film, they show their images to others in groups. Anything else is a waste.<br> Have had many second and third thoughts about what i haul around for the photographic bit. One surprising thing i have discovered. A cheap low-priced Canon point and shoot with AA batteries for power satisifies all my so-called other photos such as objects or sometimes, yes too photographing humanoids if they are friendly.<br> At seventy years of age, maybe my attitude and world should change. Have been through many withdrawal symptoms over the year with my photography; find most of the time am unable to endure critical praise, if forthcoming. OTOH have discovered that little Canon noted above, tends to result for me the happiest images. Weird eh?</p> <p> </p>

<p>I too am about to embark on a similar scan journey.<br> In my case some 25,000 coloured slides of 90 percent transportation and the balance, other.<br> Have scanned my 135mm b&W negatives and with each roll on an Epson flatbed have also made a contact sheet. The negatives had been stored in 3 ring binders in PrintFile™ pages. The scanned images have been placed on Fuji brand compact discs, One disc can hold an amazing number of images!<br> So am looking at many (roughly 40) 600 slide capacity boxes containing many slides. <br> Shall do an intial sort, <br />and then using a Nikon 5000 scanner acquired many years ago when I was far more ambitious start on the slides.<br> However have a query. What is the best method to retain the scanned colour images?<br> Am thnking of the hard drive method for the colour slides, saving them as JPEG's so if I expire, the images can be used by others on a machine that can read the images on the hard drive/solid state drive. As my machinery is all Macintosh (can't abide by Microsoft), best do the save as a more or less universal format<br> I have almost given up photography entirely, so shall not be adding to the stack of slides so to speak. <br> Digital results in colour prints, as does C-41 colour negative so why bother?</p> <p> </p>

<p>A UV (ultra-violet) filter indicates to me that the colouring of the filter "may" change the rendering of an image.<br> I have just one lens for my Nikon D750 an older 28-105 without a hood! So far in my return to photography have discovered extra lense sare needed, at least at present. <br> Maybe I need to investigate the purchase of a lens hood and maybe some form of protective glass for the front. Which brings up a question, are absolutely clear glass filters (although constructed of clear glass it doesn't seem to me to be filtering anything) available? Not UV, simply a clear piece of glass mounted in or on a filter ring?</p>

<p>I have just purchased two (2) Yongnuo Speedlites<br> Model YN560 III.</p> <p>These were order from the Canadian importer in the Republic of Quebec.<br> These are intended for use with Nikon gear.</p> <p>No where on the box is there an indication these flash units are compatible <br> with Nikon Gear. I may only assume the website for the company is correct in noting these devices are Nikon compatible. </p>

<p>As a photographer of railway subjects, Kodachrome II, and later Kodachrome 25. Still use colour slide film however the market has declined; now it's Provia, and at that perhaps a roll every four to eight week. Reliable post-exposure film processing is the biggest problem these days. Canada has limited reliable resources; my last two rolls were processed as C-41; all the packaging states it was E-6 process however the technicians being none too bright felt they knew better. It all makes one want to stop doing photography of anything. For digital rendering would never do, itis not the same, to me and many others.</p>

<p>As this site is based in a foreign country whose currency is valued more than mycountry would assume the transferfees to my currency would be gobbled up by taxes andthe like. That said,<br> In certain markets here in Canada, $1-million may well only buy you a basement and perhaps the main floor for a house. It would not buy the property on which the house is sited.<br> That noted, clear my debts and then set up a trust fund to supply me with sufficient monies to survive until the end of my days. Many years ago did the reverse of many. Purchased my burial plot, had a proper stone manufactured and placed in situ. The funeral has been paid for along with cremation. Want no fuss or bother when I expire. Like the rabbits mating said "this won't take long, did it?"<br> Photographically, the gear no longer is of interest. One must have a reason to do one's photography. If the reason does not exist, why bother? <br> Too with the plethora of so-called new and maybe better kitall obselete before its time; the photography of today is no longer the historical reference of tomorrow. Historically what will remain, or moreso who shall care? <br> Keep in mind we inhabit this earth as much as other species and one day too, we shall become extinct, which if you look at it in the long term, might not be a bad idea!</p>

<p>If the cat is involved, it would be a CATastrophe,</p>

<p>It has been almost a year since I simply shelved my Nkon F100 and one remaing lens. Mentioned my situation in Casual Photo Conversations last June I believe<br />Thought i would miss taking photographs, haven't in the slightest.<br> Took the F00 out of its original box this evenng, and felt it in my hands. Nice feel but no purpose for the use of the device, so back in the box, and close the lid.<br> So as to your question, full frame for sure, whatever it is. Nikon and others seem to be releasing so many devices so quickly these days. most people would be overwhelmed, or in my case, simply can't be bothered.</p>

<p>Consider the era when the MD-12 was in vogue. Use similar new batteries similar to those used in the era. Alkaline batteries are quite sufficient. I enjoyed the electric thumb on my Nikon cameras and were well worth the extra weight. You can bang through a roll of 36 exposure film in an amazingly rapid amount of time...</p> <p> </p>

<p>Sounds to me as if some photographers are suffering from tripoditis, wherby one's leg is longer or shorter than the other. Ditto to one's other apendages meant to hold photographic image recording devices.<br> My new to me Fujifims XT-1 has such a device, one of the many reasons I sold all my Nikon gear. Find it helps as my sense of balance left to right is not always as good as I wish it could be, should be, might be.</p>