Published Oct 3, 2020 |
‘We have to go fishing to test the Nikon Z5,’ they told us. ‘It’s all about the camera,’ they said. Call us skeptical, but such are the lives of YouTube stars. So join us as we go fishing with the Nikon Z5
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Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work. 
