New toys


 Lock down has been so hard on so many businesses, I have friends that run pubs that have missed out on so much income over the summer and Christmas periods and shop owner that have been unable to open even while big supermarkets have continued to sell the same types of things.

On a personal note work just stopped for months at a time, but I am lucky that I can switch from commercial work to my landscapes and sell on-line if needs must. This still means that I'm down by about 80% on my income, so to make the decision to invest what little I have in my business might seem a bad idea. And it would be if I had no faith that the work will come back, but I'm sure that it will and when it happens I need to be in the best shape possible.

The back bone of any photography business after the photographer is the cameras, when I set up over 10 years ago I was running just 1 body and that was a low grade one at that. So first on my list was a new body, nearly £1000 of D7000 the latest camera in Nikon's line up, while not a full pro camera it shared the same internals as the top end cameras, you just had to look after it a bit more.

Those 2 cameras did great service for a couple of years, but a second semi pro camera was needed, so I picked up a nearly new D200, 2 generations older that the D7000, but in a better body and with more pro features, and more importantly nearly a 10th of the cost of the D7000.

8 years on and over 1/4 million shots put on the 2 bodies, I got a D300s, the replacement for the D200 in the Nikon range, this one was again second hand, but with only 5000 shots done it was a great buy.

So last week I got yet another D300s, so now I have 2 matched bodies which will make working easier, no more searching around for buttons or changing between to different menu systems. The new camera is working well, see the picture above, I have 2 great cameras in reserve and now am ready to face the future, bring it on.

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