We had a fairly good idea of what we wanted (a Nikon) and have several friends who have various cameras in the Nikon SLR series... so we price shopped around a couple places and bought one the same day. The same place that had it on sale also had it with the dual-lens set, which is almost always cheaper than buying the 2nd lens separate. The biggest challenge was asking questions about it- most sales people do speak English, some better than others... but aren't always ready and willing to explain the whole camera and it's features to us (understandable... I don't exactly have my Finnish camera terms down either!) But, we got really lucky, and the guy we asked to help us was from the UK. SCORE! We picked his brain for a while and ended up taking home the Nikon D3100. The manual, on the other hand... is in Finnish. Thank goodness for the PDF file on the website (what would we do without technology these days... seriously?!)
After taking many pointless pictures around the apartment, of the dog, the half dead flowers on the table.... I decided to take it to the game Thursday night to give 'er a try and test my skills. I can't tell you how much fun I had taking all of the pictures and editing them on the computer. Looks like I may have found another new hobby!! :)
Here are some of the pictures I took. I'm pretty proud of how my first sets came out considering I barely knew how to turn the thing on 5 days ago! ;)
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| Helsinki Cathedral |
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| Senate Square in Helsinki |
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| A row of colorful apartments on a street in Helsinki |
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| View of the sun setting over the Baltic Sea along the Helsinki coastline |
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| Our precious pooch, Maddie |
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| The hubs at work |
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| Who knew I was a sports photographer? |
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| Lots of cool action shots |
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| #2 in your program, #1 in my heart <3 |
