I have been a self admitted film snob, "No digital cameras for me," I would say with a sneer. Then last year I went with a small point and shoot digital, just for fun. If I wanted to take serious shots I would pull out my beautiful 35mm. I loved that camera (still do actually). As I started hanging out at the Celery Farm and spending a lot on pictures of geese, the idea of digital entered my brain. But it took my class at the Stone Barns Center and shelling out $100 a week to print images that would mostly end up in the garbage I started to really see the light. "Jay," I said, "I think I am ready to go into the world of full digital SLRs." I think the earth started shaking and there were some snowballs being thrown in Hades. I had already played with the idea a bit and so when I walked into Bergen County Camera- the best camera store ever- I had an idea of what I wanted. Paul spoke wisdom to me and told me I didn't have to go as far as I thought and showed me the D200 ( I was thinking I needed the DX2 or something like that.) Fast forward 4 months Here we are in July and Jay said to me Wednesday night that it was time (Can you hear the music playing?) So now I am the proud owner of a digital Nikon SLR. It would be more accurate to say I am the completely overwhelmed and intimidated owner of a Nikon SLR. I figure I have to live to 500 to figure out all the things I can do with this camera. I am starting slow and playing a bit. I told Paul I will start coming in mext week with a ton of questions and become a weekly fixture at the store. I went out today and took a ton of pictures with it and am loving the freedom of shooting all I want and then just deleting all the junk. 
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