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I shoot 35mm on a minolta x-700 and srt-101 and 120 on a mamiya 330f
I am presently 40 with a wife and two kids under six, so my photographic output is not up to what it was in the past. I got involved in a camera club in high school, shot the yearbook there for a few years, and in uni for my engineering faculty as well. Today every two weeks I attend a very informal print group meeting to aid me in keeping a bit of photography hapening along with all the other present demands on my time.
I work as a transportation engineer, and that ocassionally that sends me out of town on stints. The longest one was to Australia for 3.5 years! There were a lot of prints to work up after that trip once the darkroom was re-established. In B&W I print onto RC and fibre, and also do C41, RA4 and E6 colour processes. With my kids at their ages at present, the days of buying a colour chem kit and working on it over a few weekends are long gone. I now mix all chems from scratch. I enjoy the process in the darkroom almost more than the taking the photos.
I shoot 35mm on a minolta x-700 and srt-101 and 120 on a mamiya 330f
I am presently 40 with a wife and two kids under six, so my photographic output is not up to what it was in the past. I got involved in a camera club in high school, shot the yearbook there for a few years, and in uni for my engineering faculty as well. Today every two weeks I attend a very informal print group meeting to aid me in keeping a bit of photography hapening along with all the other present demands on my time.
I work as a transportation engineer, and that ocassionally that sends me out of town on stints. The longest one was to Australia for 3.5 years! There were a lot of prints to work up after that trip once the darkroom was re-established. In B&W I print onto RC and fibre, and also do C41, RA4 and E6 colour processes. With my kids at their ages at present, the days of buying a colour chem kit and working on it over a few weekends are long gone. I now mix all chems from scratch. I enjoy the process in the darkroom almost more than the taking the photos.