ZED28
21-09-2005, 03:00
I've been threatened by CT to join this forum - something about meeting his monthly quotas I think he said! :p
Seriously, I'm actually CT Jr. and have him to thank for my countless (not to mention expensive) hobbies - one of those being photography.
A little about me, umm... this should be short! Born and bred in the UK (obviously) and got into photography via CT at about, hmm I dunno say 14 or 15? Back then it was helping out in the blacked out kitchen developing B/W prints, color slides and everything in between. I was certainly influenced in my camera purchases and got my first camera, a Pentax ME Super, one of the first "electronic button" camera released! I got the proverbial power winder for it and a crap load of lenses - half of which were hand-me-downs from CT!:woot:
I was offered a 2nd hand Canon A1 about 12 months after that which was leaps and bounds ahead of its time but a useless paperweight if the batteries died! Shortly after that I got the Pentax SFX (after CT got his first!) and then I progressed (that's open to discussion) to photographing and developing color prints for a couple of weddings. I'll NEVER do either of those again!:shock:
My first digital camera was an Olympus Camedia, can't remember the model but it was a whopping 640x480 at max res with a limited 16 pictures stored on the ON BOARD camera ram. CT of course went out ang got the better 1024x768 model and from that point, I instantly wanted to sell mine! LOL
I'll save you all from the story but I moved to the States to get married about 7.5 years ago and had to drop all of my kit for funding reasons. I got a point and shoot Olympus D-400 Zoom which I dropped about 18 months later - onto a concrete floor!:annoyed:
My current camera is a Nikon Coolpix 5700 which I'm pretty disapointed with and will be purchasing an SLR system camera again soon. Hence my being here - to garnish the wealth of knowledge from this forum!
I have plenty of other hobbies still - I spend a great deal of time with web-sites and have a couple of sites I run and own, one of which is a car club for V8 GM cars (Vettes, Goats, F-Bodies etc) www.gmlsxs.org (http://www.gmlsxs.org/) the other is my own site www.tomkinson.org (http://www.tomkinson.org/) where I use Gallery also.
Okay, so that ended up being an excerpt from War and Piece!:Ponders: LOL
Anyways, just wanted to say a big howdy, this place really does come highly recomended.:thumb:
Seriously, I'm actually CT Jr. and have him to thank for my countless (not to mention expensive) hobbies - one of those being photography.
A little about me, umm... this should be short! Born and bred in the UK (obviously) and got into photography via CT at about, hmm I dunno say 14 or 15? Back then it was helping out in the blacked out kitchen developing B/W prints, color slides and everything in between. I was certainly influenced in my camera purchases and got my first camera, a Pentax ME Super, one of the first "electronic button" camera released! I got the proverbial power winder for it and a crap load of lenses - half of which were hand-me-downs from CT!:woot:
I was offered a 2nd hand Canon A1 about 12 months after that which was leaps and bounds ahead of its time but a useless paperweight if the batteries died! Shortly after that I got the Pentax SFX (after CT got his first!) and then I progressed (that's open to discussion) to photographing and developing color prints for a couple of weddings. I'll NEVER do either of those again!:shock:
My first digital camera was an Olympus Camedia, can't remember the model but it was a whopping 640x480 at max res with a limited 16 pictures stored on the ON BOARD camera ram. CT of course went out ang got the better 1024x768 model and from that point, I instantly wanted to sell mine! LOL
I'll save you all from the story but I moved to the States to get married about 7.5 years ago and had to drop all of my kit for funding reasons. I got a point and shoot Olympus D-400 Zoom which I dropped about 18 months later - onto a concrete floor!:annoyed:
My current camera is a Nikon Coolpix 5700 which I'm pretty disapointed with and will be purchasing an SLR system camera again soon. Hence my being here - to garnish the wealth of knowledge from this forum!
I have plenty of other hobbies still - I spend a great deal of time with web-sites and have a couple of sites I run and own, one of which is a car club for V8 GM cars (Vettes, Goats, F-Bodies etc) www.gmlsxs.org (http://www.gmlsxs.org/) the other is my own site www.tomkinson.org (http://www.tomkinson.org/) where I use Gallery also.
Okay, so that ended up being an excerpt from War and Piece!:Ponders: LOL
Anyways, just wanted to say a big howdy, this place really does come highly recomended.:thumb: