Coming from the analog photography era, the first payable digital cameras, especially DSLR’s – if there where any, couldn’t compete with analog positive images. And we where very happy with our Olympus and Canon SLR’s.

But analog films wheren’t getting any cheaper, but digital camera’s where. Getting digital photos in a database is also a lot easier.

Reading a good review about the Canon PowerShot S3 IS was the turning point. Not a DSLR but a very nice camera making very nice pictures and quite a zoomrange.

And now we are in the era of DSLR’s; first a Nikon D3000 and later a Nikon D5000.

A telezoom was on my wishlist the moment a had the D3000 and at a certain moment a 200 – 500 Tamron was second hand available and I bought it. It’s quite a big lens, but very nic pictures can be made with it: