The Return of My Own Photography

...is imminent! I've been without a compact flash card for my small P&S camera, which has rendered it a fancy paperweight for awhile now, but all that's about to change as I've ordered myself a new one with a nice 4GB capacity and moderate write speed. Perfect for my point and shoot Canon; it doesn't need anything better than that and the price my mom and I found on it (a SanDisk, too) was very convincing.

I also intend to get quite serious this spring and summer and beyond in finally mastering my Nikon D200, possibly selling some items I have and using a bit of the money to get a more practical lens than the excellent but limited fixed-focal-length macro lens I currently have attached to it. I skipped the "kit" lens at the time of purchase to save a bit of money, knowing I'd want a better basic zoom, and that the kit lens wasn't worthy of the sophisticated D200 body. Of course I wish I'd waited for the D300, but let's not even go that route. I'm quite happy with what I have and there will always be something better; it's the nature of technology.

Well, hopefully I can soon afford some better glass along the lines of the 18mm - 200mm model. Something common enough to sell in large quantity and thus remain affordable while still being tack-sharp and very fast. That will leave me really only lacking two lenses: A super wide-angle model, and an extreme zoom (400mm+). The long zoom I can do without indefinitely as I'm not planning any African safaris in the near future, but something like a 10mm wide angle lens would be absolutely wonderful!

Unfortunately to get a high-quality lens that wide without resorting to a fish-eye model can get extremely expensive, so it will have to wait for better days financially. But I'm patient and also willing to buy used and to compromise perhaps to a 12mm. The only thing I really insist on is it be a true Nikon (Nikkor). I would rather build up a small stable of excellent Nikon lenses then settle for imitations which I know will only disappoint me whatever their price.

Hope that flash card arrives soon! The weather is gorgeous and my trigger finger is itchy.