Photography

I’ve been interested in photography ever since I bought my first camera, a manual Zenith EM, way back in 1980 just before the Moscow Olympics. It was a totally manual model, so was a good introduction to photography.

In about 1983 I bought my second camera, an Olympus OM10. This had a bit of automation but nothing like modern cameras.

In about 1986 I began to take less and less photographs and my interest waned until I decided to buy something a bit more up-to-date. I bought my first Canon, an EOS 300n. A year later I supplemented this with a couple of lenses and then another camera an EOS IX7 which took APS film instead of standard 35mm.

In 2003 I decided to dip my toes in the world of digital photography and bought a relatively cheap (at the time) Fujifilm Finepix S304. I was hooked. To be able to have complete control over my photography for the first time was like looking on the world through new eyes. I could choose, as I was taking a photograph, whether I wanted to keep it or not and I could take 250 photographs before I had to download them to my computer, more if I reduced the resolution down from the maximum.

In November 2005 I finally bought myself a Canon EOS 20D, which uses the existing lenses that I have from my two file Canons. I invested in some studio lights and have had quite a number of private commissions.

Computing

I love computers and all the things you can do with them. From blogs to editing photographs you can do almost anything. I use a Toshiba Qosmio G20, it's about a year old as I write and I've not really had any problems with it. Not got a great battery life but it is a beast of a notebook so power get's used very quickly. I tend to run it off the battery all the time anyway.

The only thing about technology is it is always racing away from you. Just when you think you are bang up-to-date someone brings a new gadget out or a faster processor or something.