All the photographs that appear on this website were taken by me (or in some cases my wife Deb). Please feel free to download them for your own personal enjoyment. If you want to use any of the images for a commercial venture, please contact me. Basically I just want to know where they are going and to get the appropriate credit.
Medium Format Junkie |
|||
How I Started I
made the mistake of renting a medium format camera for a long fall foliage
weekend in New England. Once the Velvia chromes came back I was
immediately hooked. My wife was dreading my purchasing new equipment
while I was shooting that weekend, but she was also swayed by the 6x45
transparancies on the light box. After a lot of looking through
Shutterbug and used-camera web sites, I ended up at Le
Camera in Trenton, NJ where I had rented the equipment earlier.
I walked out of there with: a Mamiya 645 body (original version,
in LN condition), Waist-level finder and a 45/2.8 S wide-angle lens
for a smidge more than $900. I've also added a 150/3.5 Mamiya telephoto
not long after that.
CurrentlyHaving used the 645 for the better part of a year , I got completely into the bigger film size. I upgraded from the original 645 to a 645 Pro, also purchased from Le Camera. I bought a second back, which I have since sold to partially finance my F100 purchase. Traded my old Nikon 8008 for a metered prism finder. I picked up an 80/1.9 at a camera show to round out the current lens collection. Maybe one day I'll spring for the 35/3.5 and the 300/5.6. One day. I've also picked up an old Rollei 66 slide projector, so now I can project these images - WOW!
|
35mm Stuff |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bodies |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My first real camera was a Konica TC with a 50/1.7
lens. After a few years I decided to upgrade to the Nikon line, and
chose a Nikon N2000 manual-focus body. That served well for a few
years before being stolen from my car in Philadelphia, PA. I replaced
it with the FE2 and have never looked back.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lenses |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
I have had a lot of other lenses over the years; I've owned at one time or another (but no longer have):
|
|
If I can take the time I setup on a Bogen/Manfrotto
3021 tripod with a medium Bogen ball head. I also have a Bogen 3001 compact
tripod that I use with a Kaiser mini-ball head for when I have to pack a suitcase,
and a Bogen monopod for hiking. I hardly ever use a flash, so I just have
a small Nikon speedlight. I've got a bunch of bags, including a new backpack
photo bag from Tenba that's pretty cool.
My current home setup is a 1ghz Pentium III with 256 MB of RAM and 90 GB hard drive storage. The photos are scanned on an Epson 1640SU color scanner, tweaked in Photoshop 6.0 (cropping, borders, sharpening, levels, etc) and saved as JPG files. I try to keep photo sizes less than 150k for downloading.