For much of my life I had been a hobby photographer. Until mid of 2007 I was using old style analogue films with my Nikon D90X. But then we decided to visit the relatives of my wife in China. I thought, it is now high time to switch to digital photography. And I bought a Nikon D200. This way I could continue to use my Nikon lenses.

It took me more than a week to study the camera's manual and another book about the D200. Slowly I began to recognize that digital photography needs quite a bit more knowledge compared to the "good, old" analogue world.

The first difference I noticed: I took about 10 times more photos. And I had to learn to delete the bad ones. Then I had to learn the basics of an image processing tool.

After the holidays and about 2000 new digital photos I decided to ...