Gilles
27-Aug-2012, 13:28
This is my first post on the forum, following my (very) recent registration.
My personnal photographic history starts around 1985, when I was 6 years old, a got my first camera: a kodak instamatic. Later, I inherited my father's Pentax ME. More recentely, I was given a baby rolleiflex, found by my father in law in an attic... This was, basically, the beginning of the end :D
After buying 127 film on the internet, to feed the baby rolleiflex, I was rapidly confronted to the problem of getting it developped. So, I started to process myself. To get useful tips about film processing, I registered to a french-speaking forum on analog photography... There, I discoverd a whole new world... Today, I own about 2 dozens (my wife says "at least four dozens") cameras. I also have a small enlarger and I do black and white prints.
Most of all, my most recent camera is a gorgeous Thornton Pickard triple extension view camera, to which I managed to attach a Symmar Lens:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7107/7668091514_12433dbe0a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ggeeraer/7668091514/)
IMG_0251 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ggeeraer/7668091514/) par ggeeraer (http://www.flickr.com/people/ggeeraer/), sur Flickr
I just love it. It was bought by my uncle several years ago, but he never found the time to buy a lens and use it... I recentely snapped my first pieces of sheet film...
As large format photography is completely new to me, I decided to register to this forum. There is so much to learn...
Cheers !
My personnal photographic history starts around 1985, when I was 6 years old, a got my first camera: a kodak instamatic. Later, I inherited my father's Pentax ME. More recentely, I was given a baby rolleiflex, found by my father in law in an attic... This was, basically, the beginning of the end :D
After buying 127 film on the internet, to feed the baby rolleiflex, I was rapidly confronted to the problem of getting it developped. So, I started to process myself. To get useful tips about film processing, I registered to a french-speaking forum on analog photography... There, I discoverd a whole new world... Today, I own about 2 dozens (my wife says "at least four dozens") cameras. I also have a small enlarger and I do black and white prints.
Most of all, my most recent camera is a gorgeous Thornton Pickard triple extension view camera, to which I managed to attach a Symmar Lens:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7107/7668091514_12433dbe0a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ggeeraer/7668091514/)
IMG_0251 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ggeeraer/7668091514/) par ggeeraer (http://www.flickr.com/people/ggeeraer/), sur Flickr
I just love it. It was bought by my uncle several years ago, but he never found the time to buy a lens and use it... I recentely snapped my first pieces of sheet film...
As large format photography is completely new to me, I decided to register to this forum. There is so much to learn...
Cheers !