Thread: Hello from Mid-Michigan, USA!

Hello, my name is Margaret, and I've been spending time over at Mu-43.com during the last few months, as I recently sold my Pentax gear after getting an LX-5 and discovering this comparatively tiny camera can take great pics. Finding I often needed better high ISO performance, I added an E-PM1 for that and its IBIS. I won't give up my LX-5 though.

My dad gave me my first camera ~1975, an Agfa 110 (the Pocket 2008 I believe), with "flipflash." ~1981, I upgraded to a 35mm manual SLR, the Fujica STX-1 with a 55mm f/2.2 lens. I used the Fujica till I purchased my first digital camera in 2001, a Nikon Coolpix 880. Sadly I replaced it with a Canon SD630 in 2006. I'm only a snap shooter, but I live to photograph pets indoors, so I'm forever chasing better high ISO performance and faster lenses. I still get better shots using manual mode -- providing my subjects sit still long enough for me to fiddle with settings -- which unfortunately is a rarity.

Now that I'm retired, I'm able to make more time to resume my photography hobby and (I hope) to become a better photographer.

Welcome Margaret, you have a couple of great cameras, look forward to see some of your pet pictures soon!

Welcome to the forum, Margaret!

Hello and welcome here Margaret. Thanks for joining this wonderful forum.

Welcome Margaret, and thanks for your introduction! I'm looking forward to seeing some of your shots. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess you have 2 cats?

welcome from another midwestnerner

Originally Posted by bartjeej

Welcome Margaret, and thanks for your introduction! I'm looking forward to seeing some of your shots. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess you have 2 cats?

Thx! I had two cats when I began using "twokatmew" some years ago. Now I have three, but I always have at least one. Three is my max though!

Sent from my phone, pardon my brevity.

Thx for the warm welcome everyone! I forgot to mention that I took the shot I use for my avatar with my LX5. I used macro mode and cropped heavily. My now 12-yr-old Ben posed for the shot, and he was half asleep at the time.

Sent from my phone, pardon my brevity.

Hi Margaret! I, too, am an ex-Pentaxian with an LX5... and I love shooting my cats!

Glad you decided to join up.

Welcome, welcome. I started with the LX5 myself and it's been downhill ever since.