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<p>I have been a bridge camdera enthusiast since about a decade ago I couldn't quite afford a DSLR to replace my SLR and I happened upon the Nikon 5700 of I think 2002 vintage ... it is still performing well currently when I use it for things it does well or is the handiest camera to hand.... I have a stable of about four or five to choose from.</p> <p>The biggest problem with the bridge is the small sensor and this meant with my older models I restricted myslf to 100 ISO so I agitated for a bigger sensor to permit a wider range of ISO to be acceptable. I was with the FZ50 at the time and I bought a second one as back-up when Panasonic went for tromboning long zooms.</p> <p>So I waited and probably would also be an enthusiastic FZ200 with its constant f/2.8 lens, like my original Pany the FZ20 which displaced the Nikon 5700 to a point. But in the meantime I heard about MFT and the G3 which with the 14-140 lens gives me a similar range to the Nikon 28-280 v. 35-280.</p> <p>I guess I am really a DSLR/SLR user at heart despite my distaste of the DSLR so I changed the G3 for the GH2 to have the external controls on my "larger sensored bridge camera"</p> <p>So I remain faithful to the 'bridge' concept of a lightweight single zoom lens camera that was so wonderful for me early on, though of course with the ability to change lenses very occasionally .... bug-eye or extreme macro with bellows.</p> <p>I retain my FZ50s with the Raynox 2020 tele-adaptor to give me 950mm reach. I also have an Olympus TCON x1.7 which with slight vignetting gives me about 500 reach with the 14-140 on the GH2.</p> <p>All I need now is the energy to get out and use them more :-)</p>

<p>Purrfect!</p>

<p>I was a stauch fan of the bridge camera until the design went the 'wrong way' in my opinion and I went to MFT<br> ... sticking with Panasonic .... brand loyalty :-) .... as a result I feel that MFT is the answer and unless you actually want the 600mm equivalent of the FZ200 as a APS-C ex-owner it will not satisfy you and with something like a 2/h G3 and kit lens, or two, from reputable sellers such as B&H, KEH, Adorama you will be within your budget or indeed less.<br> Until I bought a bug-eye lens I only had one lens for my MFT ... interchangable lens is nice for if I want to use my extension tubes/bellow from film days ... but I have yet to in two years of MFT :-) Admittedly I have a 14-140 which gives me 28-280 AoV and is my larger sensored 'bridge' camera ... similar to my first Nikon bridge before I went to Pany. [ 35-280 ]</p>

<p>+1 Micheal Linder's final sentance.</p>

<p>The trouble with multiple camera types in the digital age is the number of batteries to remember to keep charged up, and I normally have two batteries for each of the seven cameras in the stable .... URRRGH!<br> Actually that is eight .. I forgot to count my cellphone.</p>

<p>Lex ... I learnt that message early on when trying to fly a Quadcopter recemtly and it seemed to leap at me and I got a little cut to my finger fending it off. The blades though four in number are rather smaller than that choppers'</p>

<p>Please pardon my ignorance in an old guy but what is a dronnie? :)</p>

<p>With so many people on earth these days I guess people are finding lots of worthless subjects to waste their time and usually the taxpayers' money on. The site itself is ridiculous twaddle.</p>

<p>More recent when I was building the house in the b/g I took this with my home made cement mixer. C1992 Another valuable record and better focused too :-)</p><div></div>

<p>Around 1953 I was playing with my grandfather's quarterplate SLR[?] and for want of a subject took a photo of myself in front of my Aunt's house in which I was living at the time.</p><div></div>

<p>On the current pre-occupation with technicalities I found a similar depreciation in a 1948 British Almanac as my current views ... things don't change just regurgitate :)</p>

<p>Such a mass of material to admire ...Festival reminded me of the film Black Orpheus I saw many decades ago. To think that people live in the slum, how lucky I am in my country.</p>

<p>In my student days I used a lot of out dated film and the trick was to determine how much to over expose or to downrate the ISO/ASA ... that was in the 1950's and I am afraid I have forgotten the details so cannot offer any advice for your stock ... I also have some stock, now dreadfully outdated, probably bought around the start of the century and some even older cameras but with my stable of digital cameras I have yet to get around to using the film gear.<br> I would hope you would get a better answer on the B&W Film and Processing forum :)</p>

<p>I think Jeff is right in what he wrote at 9.20 ... I quite like them but that is just my personal view .. .</p>

<p>More interesting to me was when I clicked on 'Gallery', particularly the works of <a href="http://www.theinspiredeye.net/my-account/gallery/page/2"><small>Fabio Balestra</small></a><br> Particularly the bicycle fixed to chain with man hurrying in the rain held my interest if only for the means of attachment :-)</p>

<p>They work as a collection and the sort of thing I might shoot if I got my A into G and had Parramatta in my backyard ... but I wouldn't expect anybody else to like them ... a very personal thing.</p>