Aloof

Too Cool for Dancing
Too Cool for Dancing

Sometimes I am thankful I have an outdated, clunker for a camera. Well, that is how others see it, anyway. To me, the horrible noise if I raise the ISO above the minimum setting divulges the unique and unheralded character of the Nikon D100. I have had several chances recently to push it past the “recommended” limits, and what I often find is photos that (thankfully) do not look like all the others out there.

So, setting aside my ISO envy for a moment, because I do not write this as some subliminal reaction to my feelings of inferiority to all those cameras that take beautiful, low-grain photos at ISO one million, I simply want to revel in the grain, the color awkwardness, and the general feel of the photos I have after taking my primal digital camera into the dark no-mans land of light.

Ok…I will admit it…I still want a Canon 5D with a Nikkor Ai-S 35mm f/1.4: not too high ISO tech, certainly sufficiently non-conformist, but solving the core limitations I face with my cropped D100!

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