Hi!
I have been on board here at APUG for a couple of months, and it just dawned on me that I never formally introduced myself. (As if anyone would care...)
Anyway, my name is Russ Sisco, and I currently live in beautiful Bridgeport, Connecticut. I have been involved with photography since around 1970 when I bought my first 35mm camera, a Yashica Electro 35. (I really loved that camera, which is why I have bought 49 of them on eBay within the past year or so. I have fixed a lot of them and sold them back on eBay, and a lot of them went into the parts bin. My last 10 were destroyed a month or so ago when my basement flooded, so I have decided not to do them any more.)
I went from the Electro to a Pentax Spotmatic in about 1972, then to a Nikon Photomic FTn about a year later. In '75 the Nikon was stolen out of my apartment, leaving me heartbroken and cameraless. I ran down to my local Woolco store (remember them?) and grabbed a Minolta SRT-101 just to have something, and kept it for 30 years! Great camera, but I missed the Pentax and the Nikon. Last year I found a nice Spotmatic at a tag sale and grabbed it. That is what got me started with buying all the Electros.
Well, to make a long story only slightly shorter, I bought a Ciro-flex TLR back in early January, which was my first medium format camera. This one inspired me to get back into the darkroom, after about a 20 year abscence. When I saw the first print from a 6x6 negative, I was hooked! Went on to get a number of Ciro's, then a bunch of Yashica TLRs. I now repair and sell the Yashica TLR's on occasion. I also shoot 35mm with a Pentax H3 which supposedly once belonged to Clark Gable! (Maybe true, maybe not, but interesting nonetheless!)
Next on the list are another Nikon and a Rollei!!
Anyway, I am really enjoying APUG and getting back into film photography. I had gone digital for a while, and actually thought it was pretty neat until that first 6x6!! Now the digitoy is just for eBay listings and quick snapshots at boring family functions. I have seen the light and realized that...
Serious photography requires film!!
Glad to be aboard!!
Russ
I have been on board here at APUG for a couple of months, and it just dawned on me that I never formally introduced myself. (As if anyone would care...)
Anyway, my name is Russ Sisco, and I currently live in beautiful Bridgeport, Connecticut. I have been involved with photography since around 1970 when I bought my first 35mm camera, a Yashica Electro 35. (I really loved that camera, which is why I have bought 49 of them on eBay within the past year or so. I have fixed a lot of them and sold them back on eBay, and a lot of them went into the parts bin. My last 10 were destroyed a month or so ago when my basement flooded, so I have decided not to do them any more.)
I went from the Electro to a Pentax Spotmatic in about 1972, then to a Nikon Photomic FTn about a year later. In '75 the Nikon was stolen out of my apartment, leaving me heartbroken and cameraless. I ran down to my local Woolco store (remember them?) and grabbed a Minolta SRT-101 just to have something, and kept it for 30 years! Great camera, but I missed the Pentax and the Nikon. Last year I found a nice Spotmatic at a tag sale and grabbed it. That is what got me started with buying all the Electros.
Well, to make a long story only slightly shorter, I bought a Ciro-flex TLR back in early January, which was my first medium format camera. This one inspired me to get back into the darkroom, after about a 20 year abscence. When I saw the first print from a 6x6 negative, I was hooked! Went on to get a number of Ciro's, then a bunch of Yashica TLRs. I now repair and sell the Yashica TLR's on occasion. I also shoot 35mm with a Pentax H3 which supposedly once belonged to Clark Gable! (Maybe true, maybe not, but interesting nonetheless!)
Next on the list are another Nikon and a Rollei!!
Anyway, I am really enjoying APUG and getting back into film photography. I had gone digital for a while, and actually thought it was pretty neat until that first 6x6!! Now the digitoy is just for eBay listings and quick snapshots at boring family functions. I have seen the light and realized that...
Serious photography requires film!!
Glad to be aboard!!
Russ
