Hello from the California central coast! I’m not very good at online social stuff and there’s a good chance I’ll mostly just lurk here, but I figure I can put together an intro at least.
Among other things I’m a mom in my 40s, an FPGA signal processing engineer, and a hobbyist photographer. I started in the 90s with my dad’s Minolta X-700, and when I first got my own camera it was a Nikon. I didn’t even consider Canon because the bayonet turned the “wrong” way! Stupid reason, but here I am decades later still using my FA, F100, D850 and others.
My uncle lent me his Hasselblad 500C for a while back then too, which I absolutely adored. I’d still love to have one, but my RZ67 was a lot cheaper. I also have a few large format cameras, which I just really enjoy using.
These days I mostly shoot hybrid and digital. I like mixing my own chemistry and experimenting with very old film. I have a bunch of 50 year old E-4 Ektachrome I’ve been playing with, for example. On the digital side, I also really like IR and full-spectrum.
I don’t consider myself much of an artist, I mostly just document life and tinker. I hate my job and would love to quit and start a camera repair shop or local darkroom co-op or something, but I’m too good at what I do and my employer won’t quit paying me too much
. Instead I try to stick to manageable small projects, like a custom data cable for my F100, fixing my old lenses, and other stuff like that. I have a handful of bigger projects in mind too but with all my other responsibilities I hesitate to commit to any of them.
Some day I should probably thin out my minor hoard of lenses and cameras.
Among other things I’m a mom in my 40s, an FPGA signal processing engineer, and a hobbyist photographer. I started in the 90s with my dad’s Minolta X-700, and when I first got my own camera it was a Nikon. I didn’t even consider Canon because the bayonet turned the “wrong” way! Stupid reason, but here I am decades later still using my FA, F100, D850 and others.
My uncle lent me his Hasselblad 500C for a while back then too, which I absolutely adored. I’d still love to have one, but my RZ67 was a lot cheaper. I also have a few large format cameras, which I just really enjoy using.
These days I mostly shoot hybrid and digital. I like mixing my own chemistry and experimenting with very old film. I have a bunch of 50 year old E-4 Ektachrome I’ve been playing with, for example. On the digital side, I also really like IR and full-spectrum.
I don’t consider myself much of an artist, I mostly just document life and tinker. I hate my job and would love to quit and start a camera repair shop or local darkroom co-op or something, but I’m too good at what I do and my employer won’t quit paying me too much
. Instead I try to stick to manageable small projects, like a custom data cable for my F100, fixing my old lenses, and other stuff like that. I have a handful of bigger projects in mind too but with all my other responsibilities I hesitate to commit to any of them.Some day I should probably thin out my minor hoard of lenses and cameras.
