Delfino L. Tiongco
23-Jun-2007, 09:53
Hi everybody.
I have been in interested in photography since I was ten. Being a native of the Philippines, I was not able to afford to buy a camera until I entered college and my dear mom loaned me some hard earned money to buy a Nikon F.
To compensate for not having an actual camera, I wrote for manuals on products that interest me. I had Nikon F, Hasselblad, Leica, and Linhof manuals. I read all the vintage photography books available in our limited hometown library. Before I graduated from high school, I pretty much understand Adams Zone system.
I retired from the navy in 1998. I finally started buying large format equipment. Then digital photography got in the way. For awhile, it was very promising. The only drawback is that as soon as I buy equipment, it is already obsolete! My wife has a negative taken in 1946 and I can make a good print with my present analog equipment, a D2 enlarger. I wonder if my wife original jpg file was in a 5 /14 floppy disk!
I guess when the digital domain finally takes over. Large format photographers will be going back to – just like the pioneer photographers – mixing chemicals and contact printing prints. No 16 Photoshop layers to make one decent photograph.
My day job is in IT. I am a security network engineer, so technology does not intimidate me.
Personally, I prefer burning and dodging than layers.
Cheers.
Delfino L Tiongco
I have been in interested in photography since I was ten. Being a native of the Philippines, I was not able to afford to buy a camera until I entered college and my dear mom loaned me some hard earned money to buy a Nikon F.
To compensate for not having an actual camera, I wrote for manuals on products that interest me. I had Nikon F, Hasselblad, Leica, and Linhof manuals. I read all the vintage photography books available in our limited hometown library. Before I graduated from high school, I pretty much understand Adams Zone system.
I retired from the navy in 1998. I finally started buying large format equipment. Then digital photography got in the way. For awhile, it was very promising. The only drawback is that as soon as I buy equipment, it is already obsolete! My wife has a negative taken in 1946 and I can make a good print with my present analog equipment, a D2 enlarger. I wonder if my wife original jpg file was in a 5 /14 floppy disk!
I guess when the digital domain finally takes over. Large format photographers will be going back to – just like the pioneer photographers – mixing chemicals and contact printing prints. No 16 Photoshop layers to make one decent photograph.
My day job is in IT. I am a security network engineer, so technology does not intimidate me.
Personally, I prefer burning and dodging than layers.
Cheers.
Delfino L Tiongco