Now that I’ve had a few days to play with my new camera (the Nikon d800 for those who missed it), I’ve been playing around with my existing lenses to see what new lenses I want to purchase.  I currently have five lenses – a Nikon 35mm f/2D, 50mm f/1.8, 60mm f/2.8 micro, 18-200mm and a Sigma 10-20mm wide angle zoom.  All of these lenses have served me very well and I will continue to use them, but there’s one problem – only one of them, the 60mm micro, is an FX lens. My previous camera, the d7000, is a DX camera, so I bought DX lenses.  My new camera is an FX (full format) camera.  What all of these letters mean is that all but one of my current lenses will not take advantage of my new FX camera body.  (Here’s a clear explanation of FX vs. DX from someone who really knows

It’s been a bit of a rough couple of days for me. I know there are much bigger problems in the world and this is so small in the grand scheme of things, but the hard drive on my computer died…on the airplane on the way home from vacation.  Argh!  So, I was already feeling a bit behind and was ready to hit the ground running and get things done and I had no computer.  Fortunately, the computer is still under warranty, so I sent it off to get a new hard drive and, also fortunately, I have all of my files backed up.  It has taken a couple of days, but I have a makeshift workflow set up on two old computers.  One has my software and e-mail, but it won’t work with my printer and it won’t upload pictures.  Nice.  I’m using the second computer to upload pictures,