Sandeha Lynch
5th November 2008, 09:30 PM
Hi to all ... Stoo just passed me this address and it's great to see some familiar faces all in one place.
I don't usually write lengthy introductions on forums, but I thought I'd add a bit about my photographic journeys over the years ... I started out with a 35mm Kowa with two auxiliary lenses back around 1970. It was an expensive dud and I don't think any shots survive from then. I picked up, borrowed, or stole several Kodak Instamatics through the seventies until my first wife showed up with her own Pentax SP1000. When I later had to buy a camera for myself it was naturally enough another Pentax. That lasted many years, but eventually the MV got traded in for a P30T and an MES. Things got serious while I was in the Middle East and the pair of them clapped out almost simultaneously. I picked up a Pentax MZ-5 ... notice a theme here?
Exactly, all I knew was 35mm. However, that changed in 2001 when I moved to Singapore and ran into a friendly second-hand dealer. I bought a 1928 Voigtlander Vag 6.5x9 with a Skopar lens, rigged up a 6x7 film holder from an RB67, and started dev'ing my own. Some thirty or forty trades later (including time spent inside many a Compur and Prontor) I'm still using the Vag, but now have far too many old cams to choose from, both sheet and 120.
Currently loaded on the kitchen table, there's a 1954 Mamiya 6, and a Rolleiflex T, and a Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim. And a 1900 whole plate camera sitting in the studio waiting for the next project ...
I don't usually write lengthy introductions on forums, but I thought I'd add a bit about my photographic journeys over the years ... I started out with a 35mm Kowa with two auxiliary lenses back around 1970. It was an expensive dud and I don't think any shots survive from then. I picked up, borrowed, or stole several Kodak Instamatics through the seventies until my first wife showed up with her own Pentax SP1000. When I later had to buy a camera for myself it was naturally enough another Pentax. That lasted many years, but eventually the MV got traded in for a P30T and an MES. Things got serious while I was in the Middle East and the pair of them clapped out almost simultaneously. I picked up a Pentax MZ-5 ... notice a theme here?
Exactly, all I knew was 35mm. However, that changed in 2001 when I moved to Singapore and ran into a friendly second-hand dealer. I bought a 1928 Voigtlander Vag 6.5x9 with a Skopar lens, rigged up a 6x7 film holder from an RB67, and started dev'ing my own. Some thirty or forty trades later (including time spent inside many a Compur and Prontor) I'm still using the Vag, but now have far too many old cams to choose from, both sheet and 120.
Currently loaded on the kitchen table, there's a 1954 Mamiya 6, and a Rolleiflex T, and a Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim. And a 1900 whole plate camera sitting in the studio waiting for the next project ...