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Well, my first post on these forums - and very nice forms they are too, good job.
My name is John, and I am from Newport in South Wales. I too run a vB forum - but mine is about brass music and is called www.themouthpiece.com if anyone fancies a look.
I was always interested in photography when I was younger, and recently - as the price of digital SLR's has reduced, I have once again become interested in learning all about the art of photography.
I have had a few small compact digital cameras - as have my kids, Nikon Coolpix and an Olympus model (forget which), but having these has rekindled my interest in SLR's and the 'good quality' stuff.
I am a total newbie to Digital SLR's, and have been looking around for what to get as my first real digital camera - and my lovely wife decided to purchase one for me for my birthday (which is tomorrow) - but as I am flying out of the UK on business for a few days tomorrow - she decided to surprise me and give it to me tonight. I am not the proud owner of an Olympus E400 - and it looks great. This was one of the models I had mentioned to her about and I had been looking at.
Anyway... enough rambling by me... I am very much interested in learning all about this camera, all about photography - and especially how to go about doing close-up and macro photography with it. I have no clue what to go for re close-ups, or what/where to buy any items, and so will be hoping that people around here can help me and point me in the right direction.
I look forward to chatting with many of you over the coming months...
Happy clicking...
John
Well, my first post on these forums - and very nice forms they are too, good job.
My name is John, and I am from Newport in South Wales. I too run a vB forum - but mine is about brass music and is called www.themouthpiece.com if anyone fancies a look.
I was always interested in photography when I was younger, and recently - as the price of digital SLR's has reduced, I have once again become interested in learning all about the art of photography.
I have had a few small compact digital cameras - as have my kids, Nikon Coolpix and an Olympus model (forget which), but having these has rekindled my interest in SLR's and the 'good quality' stuff.
I am a total newbie to Digital SLR's, and have been looking around for what to get as my first real digital camera - and my lovely wife decided to purchase one for me for my birthday (which is tomorrow) - but as I am flying out of the UK on business for a few days tomorrow - she decided to surprise me and give it to me tonight. I am not the proud owner of an Olympus E400 - and it looks great. This was one of the models I had mentioned to her about and I had been looking at.
Anyway... enough rambling by me... I am very much interested in learning all about this camera, all about photography - and especially how to go about doing close-up and macro photography with it. I have no clue what to go for re close-ups, or what/where to buy any items, and so will be hoping that people around here can help me and point me in the right direction.
I look forward to chatting with many of you over the coming months...
Happy clicking...
John