Rick's Pics

 I've owned my share of cameras. I've loved them all in their own ways. If you're bored already, just read this: anything made in the last 10 years or so is fine. Go shoot. Nikon : I love this brand for 2 things: the ergos and the colors. I just plain have an easier time getting the look I want with them, and they feel great to use. I never feel like I'm going to drop the camera when I'm shooting Nikon. The Z8 is a phenomenal value at $3500. I still use a D5 for lots of stuff, and just for fun. It inspires confidence, and although it doesn't have fancy "eye" autofocus, it sure does seem to just find eyes without making a big deal of it...... Canon : the clinical leader. I use an R6 for anything I'm being paid for. It's so good I see no need to upgrade. I had an R5 but sold it, I don't need allllllllll those megapixels (hint: no one does). The ergos are second only to Nikon (and that's quite subjective, right... except for Sony which ha...

  Why am I trying this? I don't know. I think it's my increasing hatred of Instagram and the crummy way it treats photographs in general. Or maybe Ctein stopping his blog, and Kirk Tuck stopping...a couple times got to me.  It seems like the photography blog in general has fallen to the video format completely, but I still like to *read* things sometimes. Either way, I have more to say about all this than social media allows or wants.  I like photography. A lot. I always have. I've been doing it a fairly long time (my first camera was a Kodak "disc" camera in 1989) and I suspect this may be just another outlet for sharing photographs and the occasional thought about them. Will I continue? I don't know that, either. Fun either way. Irony: a grumpy old guy who likes "real" cameras who's first blog post is a weirdly exposed oversaturated shot from an Iphone. Hee.