To describe, in writing, someone’s attributes
especially your own is difficult. Knowing where to start is the first
problem so here goes........ Back in the 1980’s I purchased a Minolta
XG-M
35mm SLR camera with a 50mm lens and flash unit. The purchase was so that I
could record the growth of my family with a reliable camera. This is
certainly what it did. After a couple of years I treated myself to a Sirius
28 - 210mm zoom lens with built in macro feature.
This totally changed the
characteristics of the tame and gentle camera into the “ever searching for
that unique photograph” aggressive beast that it became. Many 1000’s of
images from that combination have been developed and printed. Many of the
photos have been patiently mounted into scrap books with a little anecdote
written near each photo. Holidays have provided many photos and it has
always been part of my holiday to take lots of composed photos together with
those important snap shots. Over recent years the holiday photos have never
been allocated the time to be mounted into scrap books and they are now in
separate heaps for each holiday. The task has now escaped me an I fear that
they may never be mounted. (Advert: Have always found W H Smiths’
scrap books to be the best together with their little white double sided
adhesive mounts)
The digital camera, in many formats, came onto the
market and yes they have sold. Seems that now we need to have image sizes up
to 5 million pixels. I bought a cheap Aiptek web cam or camera and this
introduced me to digital photography. Then bought myself a bottom of the
range Hewlett Packard digital camera. This one was physically taken from
me
by a youth near the Woolwich Ferry and after recovering from the shock
immediately bought myself a Cannon Powershot A40 replacement camera with a
large 256KB card. This camera has taken over from the Minolta
XG-M 35mm SLR as most of
my photos are now managed on the home computer. A visit to
Chronicle2003
will show some of the results from this camera. It will also show one of my
favourite hobbies. (More to follow........... )
