The first camera I held was my mother's Olympus Trip 35. However I only really started in photography when I bought a camera to carry with me on a trip to the Andes. It was a very basic Olympus digital point and shoot with a fixed focal length of about 35mm (eq.).

Then I bought a Konica Minolta Z6. With equivalent 35-400mm zoom, I grew my photography concepts a lot with it - definitely a great camera to learn. But, with such a wide zoom range, image quality was a bit disappointing - I was spending a lot of time in post processing and didn't like it.

Before Minolta grew long on the teeth, I bought a light tripod - the best acquisition I made so far. I can take it with me anytime I want and it enables things that I neglected before.

When living in Germany, I bought myself a Fuji S700, with a smaller zoom range but a higher usable sensitivity, I could expand my little knowledge in night photography a bit.

But then I found my Pentax ME Super on German ebay and have fallen in love with film since. I rarely shoot digital nowadays and I'm having a lot of fun.

Photo licensing

My pictures will be released either as:

* Plain copyright. My permission is required if you want to use them (other than seeing them in Flickr). Usually very few of my photos, but they are there - please respect my choice.

* Creative Commons Noncommercial No derivatives License Basically you can redistribute these pictures AS IS, with absolutely no modification and making no profit from it. These are so my friends can get hi-resolution version of their photos effortlessly.

* Creative Commons Attribution-Share alike License "Open source" photos - you can redistribute them (modified or not) as long as the redistributed version is under this same license. Most my pictures are under this category.

All CC licensed photos require attribution - i.e. give me credit for the photo (or you are violating the license).

I would appreciate both a link back to my photostream (www.flickr.com/photos/vieira) and a notice (cavvieira -AT yahoo -DOT- com DOT- br), but that is not required by the license.

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