G'day, I feel I have come nearly full circle with my photographic journey, I started out as many do with a couple of small cheap cameras as a teenager, met my wife, bought a film slr sold it, stopped for a while, then bought my first Digital camera, this I think is where the journey took off from.
I would accompany my wife on her sea side walks with my small digital camera, (kodak 1.3mp) I loved to get photos of planes as they flew overhead, this lead to me getting better cameras with better zoom.
After some time I eventually got the nikon p100 with 24x zoom, but starngelyy we stopped going for those walks, then I joined all these forums and was wowed by all the pics so I went for the DSLR nikon D3100, suddenly I lost mast of my zoom capabilites.
Then we went overseas and took the D3100 with 18 - 55 and 55 to 300mm and took some wonderful shots, whilst away I sustained an arm injury that took the camera out of my hands and into my wife's hands, she loved it and when we got back to Australia she was reluctant to relinquish the D3100 so she incouraged me to buy myself another so along came the Nikon D7000, and eventually the sigma 500mm lens.
Recently we have been going out doing stuff like quadbike riding and horse riding, the big cameras being unsuitable for such activites and I photographed the whole thing with my mobile phone camera.
Now we find ourselves wanting a compact camera that takes a good shot and is small enough for a pocket.
I look back now and wonder why I even got involved with DSLRs and huge lenses as the pics taken with the P100 are as good as any I have taken since.
Any body want to buy a Nikon D7000, Nikon D3100, nikon 18-105, 55-300, 18-300, sigma 150-500, tamron 18-270, tamron 90mm macro several tripods and bags and batteries etc.
Peter