Hi, I’m John Smith
One way or another I have been taking photos for more years than I care to think about. I started with small cartridge film cameras and then moved on to a couple of low cost SLRs (first a Chinon then a Pentax, both still lurking in a camera box). In the 70s and 80s this meant attempting to get decent images and then waiting a week or so for Truprint to send me the prints to see how I’d done. Happy days.
As work and family intervened I went back to small cameras but moved to digital as they appeared. They did the job but, unlike the SLRs, it was all auto and you took whatever the camera could give you - although the picture quality improved pretty rapidly as the years went by. I’d kept an eye on the changes in SLR technology and finally bought a Canon 700D a few years ago to try to restart my attempts to take better photographs. However, I found it much harder to get out of auto than I expected and most of the time I was letting the camera do the work.
When I saw that there was a camera club starting up locally I decided to join to give myself a kick and do more with the equipment I’ve got. Since then I’ve been trying different things and to take more interesting photos. It’s been very helpful to see and hear how others do things, but a great pity that we’ve be prevented from meeting each other over the last year. I look forward to getting back to normal and learning more as we all exchange info on what we do and how we do it.
One way or another I have been taking photos for more years than I care to think about. I started with small cartridge film cameras and then moved on to a couple of low cost SLRs (first a Chinon then a Pentax, both still lurking in a camera box). In the 70s and 80s this meant attempting to get decent images and then waiting a week or so for Truprint to send me the prints to see how I’d done. Happy days.
As work and family intervened I went back to small cameras but moved to digital as they appeared. They did the job but, unlike the SLRs, it was all auto and you took whatever the camera could give you - although the picture quality improved pretty rapidly as the years went by. I’d kept an eye on the changes in SLR technology and finally bought a Canon 700D a few years ago to try to restart my attempts to take better photographs. However, I found it much harder to get out of auto than I expected and most of the time I was letting the camera do the work.
When I saw that there was a camera club starting up locally I decided to join to give myself a kick and do more with the equipment I’ve got. Since then I’ve been trying different things and to take more interesting photos. It’s been very helpful to see and hear how others do things, but a great pity that we’ve be prevented from meeting each other over the last year. I look forward to getting back to normal and learning more as we all exchange info on what we do and how we do it.
Galilean moons of Jupiter taken Oct 10th 2021
