A few months back Paige purchased a new camera, a Nikon D80. This is a Digital SLR. It’s a very nice camera. After a month of using it she decided she would have actually liked to have gotten the next step up, the Nikon D300. I’ve been wanting to get myself a DLSR one of these days, since I enjoy taking photos so much, and would like to have more control over my shots than a point-and-shoot camera can provide. I told her I would gladly purchase her camera from her, since I saw how nice it is, and how nice the shots are that it produces. She got her new D300, which she took to Asheville and St. Augustine; and I purchased her D80. I haven’t used it yet, since all I bought from her is the camera body, had to purchase lenses separately. The lenses should arrive this week. I got a basic lens, which is good for portraits or any other type of shot where you don’t need to zoom. I also got a basic tele-photo lens for zooming in on subjects. I purchased Aperture, a software program for the Mac, similar to Adobe Lightroom, which is what Paige uses. It’s made for dealing with RAW images, which is the format DSLRs produce. I’ll need to learn the ins-and-outs of the camera, but it should be fun. I’ll be posting my photos I take on my site.

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