Taiwan 2025 - Monkey Post #7 / Dad's Photography

Thank goodness for the high-resolution sensor and awesome full-frame light-grabbing capabilities of the Bigger Cahoona.  Times like these totally confirm the choice made back in October of 2017 to purchase the Nikon D850.  And amazingly, even now the trades claim that the 850 is still the best Nikon on the market.

It was a poignant decision, too, as I bought it in my father's memory.  He was an avid photographer as well, but of course everything back then was film-based.  Took lots of photos, which I regrettably did not keep many of, but he was more enthusiastic about and spent more time on 8mm movies, which I have most of in our possession.  Later had them transferred to CD's and digital on a hard drive, enabling distribution to siblings, etc.

And about 25 years ago the siblings pitched in and bought him his first digital camera.  That's when I showed him the wonders of working with electronic pics, using Photoshop Elements 2.0 at the time.  When I brightened one of the pictures we were looking at, he exclaimed, "Seems like you turned the lights on!"  I was proud to have been a part of rekindling his interest in photography, learning later that he subsequently spent quite a bit of time fiddling with Elements on his home computer to enhance pictures captured with his new camera.