Hi folks.
This looks like a place I'd like to stay for a while. A bit of background:
Started taking photos when I was 6, with an Agfa medium format box camera. B&W. Have been hooked since. In 1969 I got one of the then brand new Nikonos cameras. That was my mainstay until 1983 when I purchased a rusty 2nd-hand Nikon F in a plastic bag: it had been in a flooded underwater housing. Pulled it apart, fixed it with the help of the local representative's service counter, got it fine tuned by a local mechanic and it's still one of my main cameras. Stunning little gem: you can hit a nail with it and the nail will come out second best.
Then in 84 I got an FE2 as well: the Nikon F went back to a proper underwater housing and I sold the Nikonos. And that was it until 1999 when I got a coolpix 950. Which served me well at the time for family snaps and is still clicking away with my daughter now.
Recently I got the film bug again. Man, those new films are something to talk about: Ekta VS, Velvia 50, Velvia 100, Astia, etcetc. Sheer magic!
A Nikon F2AS and an F4 followed, with also a foray into a RB67: a long held dream, made possible now by the low second hand prices of this kind of equipment. A 4990 scanner was also purchased: I don't have the space for a proper darkroom so I have to scan and process in digital. No problem. And I'm set for a while.
Lenses used: mostly Nikon MF and a few AF, with a 105mmf2.5 my preferred lens at the moment. I also use a venerable SP 35-105 wide aperture Tamron and a magic Tamron BBAR 28mm which I reckon is one of the most underrated lenses out there. The RB67 has a 50mm and a 180mm, "C" type, which I consider outstanding. But then again, I'm biased!
Preferered films: Velvia 100 (the new one), Ekta VS, Astia.
In a nutshell, that's it. Types of photography: underwater, nature, macro, landscape, kid's portraits, family holiday snaps. That sort of thing. Nothing major: I don't pretend to be the next McCurry or anything like that. But I learn a lot from the work of major photographers and places like this one.
I also like to dabble in multiple-exposure and flash and light "painting" as well as doing a little of the old "reversed 20mm lens" macro photography.
Thanks for listening.
This looks like a place I'd like to stay for a while. A bit of background:
Started taking photos when I was 6, with an Agfa medium format box camera. B&W. Have been hooked since. In 1969 I got one of the then brand new Nikonos cameras. That was my mainstay until 1983 when I purchased a rusty 2nd-hand Nikon F in a plastic bag: it had been in a flooded underwater housing. Pulled it apart, fixed it with the help of the local representative's service counter, got it fine tuned by a local mechanic and it's still one of my main cameras. Stunning little gem: you can hit a nail with it and the nail will come out second best.
Then in 84 I got an FE2 as well: the Nikon F went back to a proper underwater housing and I sold the Nikonos. And that was it until 1999 when I got a coolpix 950. Which served me well at the time for family snaps and is still clicking away with my daughter now.
Recently I got the film bug again. Man, those new films are something to talk about: Ekta VS, Velvia 50, Velvia 100, Astia, etcetc. Sheer magic!
A Nikon F2AS and an F4 followed, with also a foray into a RB67: a long held dream, made possible now by the low second hand prices of this kind of equipment. A 4990 scanner was also purchased: I don't have the space for a proper darkroom so I have to scan and process in digital. No problem. And I'm set for a while.
Lenses used: mostly Nikon MF and a few AF, with a 105mmf2.5 my preferred lens at the moment. I also use a venerable SP 35-105 wide aperture Tamron and a magic Tamron BBAR 28mm which I reckon is one of the most underrated lenses out there. The RB67 has a 50mm and a 180mm, "C" type, which I consider outstanding. But then again, I'm biased!
Preferered films: Velvia 100 (the new one), Ekta VS, Astia.
In a nutshell, that's it. Types of photography: underwater, nature, macro, landscape, kid's portraits, family holiday snaps. That sort of thing. Nothing major: I don't pretend to be the next McCurry or anything like that. But I learn a lot from the work of major photographers and places like this one.
I also like to dabble in multiple-exposure and flash and light "painting" as well as doing a little of the old "reversed 20mm lens" macro photography.
Thanks for listening.
