JensH

Hi,

I'm Jens from Schaumburg country in northern Germany.

I got my first 35mm SLR 1985 when I was 13 years old, a Praktika MTL5 with west german Revue label.
I loved the 1.8/50, I had a lot of fun with it, but it started loosing its longer shutter times.

Next camera was 1987 a Canon EOS 650 with 28, 50 and 70-210mm lenses.
Many possibilities, autofocus, technically fine images - but much less satisfaction with the work, camera did to much what I should do.
Today the same mess with my EOS 5DII DSLR...

One year later, 1988 sold all the Canon stuff for a new Contax 139 with 28 and 1.4/50mm.
Satisfaction is back, fine and light weight camera, worked great for 12 years, then didn't wind the film anymore.
A Contax RTSII came my way.

My conclusion: The camera shouldn't do to much automatically, it estranges/keeps me from the imaging process. For my private projects I prefer film based cameras.
I love to enjoy:

-Microscopy and photomicrography, mostly with a MC63 camera on 4x5" film and a Zeiss Standard 18,
on 6.5x9cm glass plates with my 1929 Zeiss FCE microscope (https://www.flickr.com/photos/136145166@N02/albums/72157686135321996)
or using a DSLR if huge numbers of shots are needed.

-Old Rolleiflexes (Rolleiflex Original K1, 1929 - 1932)
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/136145166@N02/albums/72157665628017552)

-LF using a Sinar F2 or Linhof Technika 4x5"

-Alternative techniques: print out papers

Yours
Jens

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