I am new to this site and just getting back into more serious photography after a few decades of just shooting snapshots with point and shoot cameras and smartphones. Back in the late 70's and early 80's I had a small business shooting small product photography mostly consumer electronics for catalogs and instruction manuals. I worked mostly with medium format 6x6 and 6x4.5 starting with Hassleblad and moving to Mamiya M645. I also occasionally used a homebrew (not by me) 2.25x3.25 view camera with a 6x9 film back. My daily carry was a Konica 35mm.
I went on to purse a career in IT and left photography behind in the early 80's, sold all of my equipment to buy a computer and pay for school. I didn't really pickup a camera for several years after that until I bought my first digital camera in Tokyo in 1998 while on a business trip. It took horrible images. I went on to working in R&D for a smartphone company until the company melted down in 2013. I always had the latest and greatest flagship smartphone with pretty good cameras and began taking photos again during kayak touring trips and vacations.
A few months ago I got the macro photography bug, bought an entry level DSLR, a couple of used macro lenses, bellows, speedlights and other vintage equipment and am currently gearing up to assemble a tabletop macro studio in my basement. As soon as winter is done I plan on getting out to do some location macro photography of mushrooms, insects, plants and tidal pools.
I am also an avid woodworker and woodturner and dabble in electronics. My wife came with an off-grid oceanfront cottage where we spend pretty much every other weekend and vacations from early March until mid November where I've learned way more than I ever wanted to know about solar power systems, mouse eradication and otter deterrence.
I joined this site to gain knowledge and solicit advise on adapting vintage optics to macro photography with modern digital cameras and workflows.
Steve in Vancouver
I went on to purse a career in IT and left photography behind in the early 80's, sold all of my equipment to buy a computer and pay for school. I didn't really pickup a camera for several years after that until I bought my first digital camera in Tokyo in 1998 while on a business trip. It took horrible images. I went on to working in R&D for a smartphone company until the company melted down in 2013. I always had the latest and greatest flagship smartphone with pretty good cameras and began taking photos again during kayak touring trips and vacations.
A few months ago I got the macro photography bug, bought an entry level DSLR, a couple of used macro lenses, bellows, speedlights and other vintage equipment and am currently gearing up to assemble a tabletop macro studio in my basement. As soon as winter is done I plan on getting out to do some location macro photography of mushrooms, insects, plants and tidal pools.
I am also an avid woodworker and woodturner and dabble in electronics. My wife came with an off-grid oceanfront cottage where we spend pretty much every other weekend and vacations from early March until mid November where I've learned way more than I ever wanted to know about solar power systems, mouse eradication and otter deterrence.
I joined this site to gain knowledge and solicit advise on adapting vintage optics to macro photography with modern digital cameras and workflows.
Steve in Vancouver
