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« on: April 15, 2010, 04:13:22 pm »
Hello all!

I joined the club earlier this month hoping to join in on some of the club shoots. My interest in photography has had peaks and valleys over the years. As a youth, I had the little Kodak film cameras. In the early 70's, I was given a Minolta SRT-101 SLR. Mostly I took 35mm slides of family and vacations. About 10 years later, I bought a Pentax SLR and slowly lost interest. Beginning in 2000, I bought a series of point and shoot digital cameras and in 2008 I bought a Digital SLR. I made good use of the government tax rebate and bought a Sony A200 DSLR. Well that pretty much lit the fuse and I've suffered through G.A.S. (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) since. Thankfully I have a limited budget so I can't go overboard without guilt. Last December, I moved up to a Sony A700. Quite the machine!

As far as the rest of my life, I'm a retired Electrical Engineer with three grand children. I was born and raised in Lynn, Massachusetts and moved to the Lehigh Valley in 1986.

Gary Waugh

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Re: New Member
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2010, 04:25:46 pm »
Wow, that sounds somewhat familiar(well, except for "Sony"). Welcome Gary!  I imagine many of us have gone down that path of acquiring equipment.
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Re: New Member
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2010, 04:36:56 pm »
Welcome Gary!

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Re: New Member
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2010, 04:41:08 pm »
Again Welcome Gary and hope to meet you at a near future meeting...

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Re: New Member
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2010, 05:52:07 pm »
Gee, replies already.

Well I've already missed the first shoot and the first meeting (playing grand dad tonight). I hope to do better in the future.

Thanks all!

Gary

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Re: New Member
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2010, 06:41:40 pm »
Another Sony shooter here, Gary.  8)
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Re: New Member
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2010, 09:19:42 pm »
Good to here that, TJ. As I expressed to Ric earlier, I feared I might be the lone Sony owner.

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Re: New Member
« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2010, 03:48:08 am »
We Sony owners are growing stronger every day...  :D