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- Aug 19, 2015
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Hello everyone!
Thanks for having me here on this forum.
My interest in photography came from my father who had an old Olympus SLR (damned if I can remember what model...) from the 70s, growing up in the 80s he would still shoot black and white with the occasional colour roll, I don't know how expensive film was in Australia back then, but almost definitely more than the US or the UK
In high school I took a photography course as an elective; at that stage it was to be one of the last years it was offered, as digital was making headway and the cost to the school was becoming too much for the darkroom, chemicals, camera, film, etc. etc.
The strict taskmaster (taskmistress?) of a woman who ran the course did not scare me off (though many changed electives a few weeks in!) and I developed my first roll of film and took it all the way to wet printing my very own shots. Seeing the process from bulk loading a roll of film to seeing the paper print in front of me, it felt like I was practicing magic.
I've dabbled and dipped in and out of the photography pool, with other unfortunate life distractions taking precedence, as well as university student semi-poverty putting a real damper on buying and processing film... But I would not be discouraged! I bought a Leica M3 from another forum after leaving Uni and working in various jobs, and it rekindled my photography interests.
It's been stop-start since then but in the last 6-9 months I've been re-kindling the interest in a big bad way! I'm now using my M3, an M6 and a brand new (for me) Leicaflex SL2.
GAS has always been a problem for me, and I've been eyeing Medium Format from afar... Saints preserve me
So that's my little (slightly abridged) story.
I hope whoever read it got a kick out of it
So once again, greetings and thanks for having me!
- Adric83 (Bill)
Thanks for having me here on this forum.
My interest in photography came from my father who had an old Olympus SLR (damned if I can remember what model...) from the 70s, growing up in the 80s he would still shoot black and white with the occasional colour roll, I don't know how expensive film was in Australia back then, but almost definitely more than the US or the UK
In high school I took a photography course as an elective; at that stage it was to be one of the last years it was offered, as digital was making headway and the cost to the school was becoming too much for the darkroom, chemicals, camera, film, etc. etc.
The strict taskmaster (taskmistress?) of a woman who ran the course did not scare me off (though many changed electives a few weeks in!) and I developed my first roll of film and took it all the way to wet printing my very own shots. Seeing the process from bulk loading a roll of film to seeing the paper print in front of me, it felt like I was practicing magic.
I've dabbled and dipped in and out of the photography pool, with other unfortunate life distractions taking precedence, as well as university student semi-poverty putting a real damper on buying and processing film... But I would not be discouraged! I bought a Leica M3 from another forum after leaving Uni and working in various jobs, and it rekindled my photography interests.
It's been stop-start since then but in the last 6-9 months I've been re-kindling the interest in a big bad way! I'm now using my M3, an M6 and a brand new (for me) Leicaflex SL2.
GAS has always been a problem for me, and I've been eyeing Medium Format from afar... Saints preserve me
So that's my little (slightly abridged) story.
I hope whoever read it got a kick out of it
So once again, greetings and thanks for having me!
- Adric83 (Bill)
