London calling...

EdR · Nov 1, 2006

Hello all,

Just discovered this fantastic site and have already spent several happy hours rooting around the forums when I should have been working!

I have been taking pictures, or rather snapshots, since my teenage years when I worked in a camera store at weekends and during school holidays. Photography then took a back seat until about 5 years ago when I visited a superb exhibition of Charlie Waite's landscape images. Shortly afterwards, my passion for landscape photography formed a steep inversely proportional relationship to my bank balance.

And here I am, a committed addict, still with lots to learn but starting to sell a few prints and getting the odd commission. I primarily use the 6x6 format but am contemplating a move to 4x5 (when I have plucked up the courage to tell the wife that another large camera purchase is imminent). Annoyingly, my day job tends to get in the way more than I would like!

Hope to be able to continue to learn from all the expertise here and chip in when I can.

Ed

copake_ham · Nov 1, 2006

Hi Ed,

Welcome from NYC.

Steve Smith · Nov 1, 2006

Hello and welcome from the Isle of Wight.

I will be in London over the coming weekend and I hope to get to look around some of the camera shops with a view to getting a medium format rangefinder such as the Bronica RF645 or something similar from Fuji or perhaps one of the larger format Fujis such as the GW670. I want to have a look at a few options first before spending money.

Steve.

Dave Miller · Nov 1, 2006

Welcome Ed. Enjoy the forum.

Markok765 · Nov 1, 2006

Welcome Ed from Canada!

Drew B. · Nov 1, 2006

Wow, first a jazz drummer, then the Stones, now photography. What's Charlie Watts going to do next?

David Lingham · Nov 1, 2006

Welcome Ed. Enjoy the forum.

philldresser · Nov 1, 2006

Ed
A warm welcome from Norwich, Norfolk
Phill

roteague · Nov 1, 2006

Hi Ed, welcome from Hawaii. I'm sure you will enjoy the forum, there are a few of us landscape types here.

Bob F. · Nov 1, 2006

Ah ha! Another Londoner... a couple more and it will be time to put our secret dastardly plan to Rule The World in to operation.... <insert diabolical laughter here>

Oh... drat... So much for the secret....

Welcome in any event

Cheers, Bob.

Roger Hicks · Nov 1, 2006

EdR said:
Hello all,

Just discovered this fantastic site and have already spent several happy hours rooting around the forums when I should have been working!

Dear Ed,

Welcome from rural France and also from the back page of Amateur Photographer!

Cheers,

Roger (and if you like this site, you might like The Photo School at www.rogerandfrances.com as well)

catem · Nov 1, 2006

Hello Ed

Yup, I'm a Londoner too

This is a great site, lots of information and support. Somebody warned me when I found it that it's addictive. It's true.

Cate

EdR · Nov 1, 2006

Thanks!

Thanks everyone for your generous words of welcome. Nice to be a part of the community.

Steve, you probably know this but there is are a number of good photography shops running between New Oxford Street and Holburn around the British Museum (as well as some great second hand bookshops too!). One of them, Aperture, is a Nikon specialist but last time I looked had a few Fuji RFs in stock at the moment. He's below a cafe on Museum Street so you can slurp on a skinny cappu while you peruse!

Roger, have greatly enjoyed your AP column and your work. Nice to know that you look in here!

Cheers,
Ed

Brian Jeffery · Nov 1, 2006

Welcome from a Londoner now living in the NW

Brian

Claire Senft · Nov 1, 2006

Edward M M you row, I'll listen.

Justin Cormack · Nov 1, 2006

Steve Smith said:
Hello and welcome from the Isle of Wight.

I will be in London over the coming weekend and I hope to get to look around some of the camera shops with a view to getting a medium format rangefinder such as the Bronica RF645 or something similar from Fuji or perhaps one of the larger format Fujis such as the GW670. I want to have a look at a few options first before spending money.

I dont know what you will find. Most of the MF kit in the shops is SLRs (and there isnt much - try the shop on New Oxford Street oppositer Jessops forget the name, they have some). Or check what Mr CAD has (London borders). The second hand market has been killed by the internet, London rents and analogue depreciation rates.

You could also call Nicholas in Mornington Crescent, but they have relatively little onsite in the shop, and a strange reluctance to sell stuff.

Trying equipment out is distressingly hard now, and all the wisdom of an internet forum wont let you know if you will get on with something, like a tripod head.

Stoo Batchelor · Nov 1, 2006

Hello Ed

stoo

Bob F. · Nov 1, 2006

Justin Cormack said:
I dont know what you will find. Most of the MF kit in the shops is SLRs (and there isnt much - try the shop on New Oxford Street oppositer Jessops forget the name, they have some).

That would be Jacobs I think?

Just don't go in to Jessops itself; a depressing sight. What used to be a flagship photo shop with the basement full of darkroom, used gear and lighting is now flogging new digistuff on the ground floor, and half of that is an Internet café...

Jessops Classics used to be near the British Museum, but a quick check on the Jessops site gives a dead website link (www.jessops-used.com)... There used to be two or three quality photo shops near the museum, but I've not been around there for years now so do not know if they and Jessops Classics are still there.

Cheers, Bob.

markbb · Nov 2, 2006

Hello Ed, welcome from another londoner. Steve, have you checked out Teamwork's site: http://www.teamworkphoto.com/? they always worth a visit anytime you come to town.

Justin Cormack · Nov 2, 2006

Last time I went ( a few months ago) Jessops classics had all the second hand stock of all the Jessopses in the country gradually arriving as they ull out of the second hand market, so it might be worth a look, but I dont know how much longer for...

Bob F yes, Jacobs is the one.

If you want cheering up though just visit Silverprint.

Steve Smith · Nov 2, 2006

I didn't really want to hijack Ed's post but it looks like I have anyway!
Thanks for your suggestions of London shops to visit. I was intending to visit those near the British Museum and a couple in Camden.

Steve

zinzin · Nov 2, 2006

Welcome from Berkshire, just round the corner from London...

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