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I recently returned to photography after a long (over ten years) hiatus.
I've used a Pentax K-1000 (actually,
two of them, but that's another story) for years. Recently I got the bug
again, and added a Pentax ZX-5 to the
stable. While trying to figure out all the things that have changed with
the technology, I discovered I wanted some features the ZX-5 didn't give
me, so I bought a Pentax LX. At
Christmas, my dad gave me an old Argus rangefinder (A4?) and flash, but I
haven't even really looked at it yet. It, combined with an old Kodak 126
Instamatic, are what got me started in photography, lo' these many moons
ago.
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I have always been primarily an "inanimates" photographer. That is a lot
like a "landscape" photographer, but maybe a little broader. I do a lot of
landscapes, play around with motor sports and flower macro photography, and
even go for the occasional "artsy" shot. When I shoot people, it's generally
for some specific event, like a reunion.
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Ansel Adams is one of my role models, and I like B&W in some ways more
than color. I feel like I have more control over the composition and the
rendering in B&W than I have in color. Or maybe I just understand and
can visualize the parameters better, since there are (marginally) fewer of
them. ;-) I have a roll of slide film in the bag, but it's the first
roll of slide film I've ever bought.
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I've put together a small Depth-of-Field Calculator applet using IBM's Visual
Age for Java. Unfortunately, I'm having some problems getting it to run after
exporting it from Visual Age. When I get that fixed, I'll make the
calculator generally available here.
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All of my camera bodies, and much of the ancilliary gear, is made
by Pentax . I've been using their
stuff for over twenty years, and haven't had an equipment failure yet. And
they're about the only SLR maker who has kept the lens mounts compatible from
the first bayonet mount to the lastest auto-focus mount.
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