Well all digital, really. By the time it gets to the wonderful of world wide web it’s all gone digital. But I mean to say that I spend a few years – maybe 20 or so – in a purely analog world. In fact I started with a Kodak Box Brownie using (I think this is right, it was the 1960s!) 120 format film. The type that winds onto a spool. Yeah, real old stuff. By the 1970s I’d progressed from Kodak Instamatics to Pentax K series 35mm cameras, via an Olympus Trip 35. The Olympus was where I learned to spend hours in a darkroom, firstly with D76, fixer and lots of rinsing, later with Cibachrome and all the rest. I rolled my own film, shot on both Ektachrome and Tri and Plus-X, and developed it all myself (where allowed by Kodak, anyway – they had ways to make you use their services!). I also got into Polaroids via the SX70, 8mm film, medium format and you-name-it. I managed to take some photos as well as do all of the hardware stuff.
And then I bought a computer in ’84. And another in ’85. And a scanner in about 1988. And after that I went digital, gradually, by degree, until I end up here on the web with a Nikon dSLR, several scanners and boxes of old negatives. There you go, that’s the history lesson over!
My main gallery is here… feel free to browse. It’s rather varied but very safe viewing.
Well all digital, really. By the time it gets to the wonderful of world wide web it’s all gone digital. But I mean to say that I spend a few years – maybe 20 or so – in a purely analog world. In fact I started with a Kodak Box Brownie using (I think this is right, it was the 1960s!) 120 format film. The type that winds onto a spool. Yeah, real old stuff. By the 1970s I’d progressed from Kodak Instamatics to Pentax K series 35mm cameras, via an Olympus Trip 35. The Olympus was where I learned to spend hours in a darkroom, firstly with D76, fixer and lots of rinsing, later with Cibachrome and all the rest. I rolled my own film, shot on both Ektachrome and Tri and Plus-X, and developed it all myself (where allowed by Kodak, anyway – they had ways to make you use their services!). I also got into Polaroids via the SX70, 8mm film, medium format and you-name-it. I managed to take some photos as well as do all of the hardware stuff.
And then I bought a computer in ’84. And another in ’85. And a scanner in about 1988. And after that I went digital, gradually, by degree, until I end up here on the web with a Nikon dSLR, several scanners and boxes of old negatives. There you go, that’s the history lesson over!
My main gallery is here… feel free to browse. It’s rather varied but very safe viewing.
