The Photographer
Just a little bit about me. Oh by the way - that's not me on the right!
I have been interested in photography from being a small boy. I have my
father to thank for that. He was a keen amateur photographer who
developed and printed his own pictures in a makeshift darkroom. I was
fascinated seeing the images appear on the paper in the developing tray
in the red glow of the darkroom - to a young boy this was magic to me !
Needless
to say it wasn't long before I was doing the same thing, with pictures
taken on my Kodak Brownie 127. This was a simple but iconic camera in
the 1960's. I soon progressed to an enthusiast's camera a Voitlander
Vito 2. This camera was a engineering masterpiece in comparison to the
Kodak Brownie. The lens, a colour Skopar, if I recall correctly was a 4
element lens, giving superb clarity which was a springboard for me to
become even more engrossed in photography.
Then
the usual progression of ever more expensive cameras, the Pentax
Spotmatic, the Canon AE1 followed by a switch to Olympus OM1, OM10,and
OM2. These cameras, whilst heavy were compact and ideal for outings into
the countryside and travel photography.
My
last film camera was the Canon EOS500 before making that first tentative
step into digital photography back in 2002. My first digital camera was
the Fuji 4800Z, which by today's standards was not a great camera, but
it quickly make me realise the potential of digital
photography. Once the first digital SLR under £1000 arrived on the
scene, I had to have one - the Canon EOS500D. I later moved up to the
Canon EOS 30D, the amazing EOS 5D MK3. and more recently the Mirrorless
Canon RP. The Canon G7X MK 2 also has a space in my camera bag especially
on long hill walking expeditions.
In the film
era, I preferred transparency film to colour negative with Agfa my first
choice. In addition to colour I have always taken black and white
images and still do although now of course these can be converted easily
from colour. Many of the foreign travel images on this site have been
scanned from colour transparencies. How I wish digital photography had
been around when I made these trips !