Contax NX body worthwhile Compared to Contax N1 & Contax Aria?

[Colin645]

I have never found digital to give me the "magic" of the darkroom and I must admit that in my 50 years of doing wet darkroom development and printing, I have never ever had accidental contaminations. Setting up my chemicals and "playing" with various formulae gives me satisfaction not equaled in any other environment. Oh my God!! I was 60 last Saturday and I've been an active photographer since I was 10. I started off originally with a plate camera and used to load my double darkslides. I still have and use, my original Contax 1 that I bought when I was 14!! How time flys.
Colin

 

[djg]

Colin,

Just goes to show, different strokes for different folks

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I on the other hand (at the national legal limit of 55) find great discoveries hidden behind the contrast, brightness, saturation, shadow/highlight and histogram controls in Photoshop - not to mention the good ol' magic wand. And of course there's always Undo

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Of course one look at my workstation is a give-away - two 22" monitors, two storage raid arrays, two Xeon processors ...

Cheers,

DJ

 

[rico1]

DJ,

I don't hesitate to go hi-tech when images are numerous, lighting is difficult, or results are going to the web: I have motor-driven and digital SLRs for the purpose. I also can't imagine returning to the darkroom, although developing my own (B&W) film is probably in my future. The attraction of film, mechanical shutters, and other lo-tech devices is for variety in the diet... sometimes the sight of yet another LCD is enough to make me scream.

Too many computers in my life.

 

[djg]

And that is probably what is great about photography - the options are so numerous you can try something else when you get bored with what you've been doing.

Much like Colin I started my avocation when I was 11 - in my case it was computers - relays and switches and blinking lights back then, much like the old purely mechanical cameras.

I didn't get into photography 'til I was 22, mostly because my father who was an avid Nikon photographer made us pose everywhere we went, bless his heart, which I hated (posing, not his heart)

. But when I did get into it it was lock, stock & barrel. My computer fascination is now my career also, but I am able to turn it off and in fact do during vacations, other than what I need to do for digital photography, i.e. no e-mail, no internet, no work. Just thumbnails and Photoshop

. I guess that's sort od cheating ...

Ain't photography grand? Sorry for the off-topic.

DJ