Category Archives: Photographs Walked around Camden Town with Kate poking my lens into people’s faces. Instead of having the camera around my neck, I wrapped the neck strap around my wrist, scale-focused, guessed exposure and composition, then just lifted the camera one-handed to my eye to snap – in what I was hoping to be one confident fluid…  I got a front cover photo & credit on [cue drumroll and trumpet blowing... ta da] Environmental Health News. It is a start! The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health is a professional, awarding and campaigning body at the forefront of environmental and public health and safety. Cover: <smug /> hehe Possibly related posts – automagicaly…  Found a wet graveyard behind St Alfege Church in Greenwich. Didn’t even know it was there until I stumbled across it by accident on Sunday looking for a shortcut to somewhere else. Anyway, I went back there yesterday with the Leica If. It was very dank and overcast but good for graveyards. Also empty… Some… Long post people, be warned… Why would somebody use camera equipment that is in some cases 70+ years old? especially when that someone has, until recently been a complete slave of the modern DSLR and its uber automation. Obviously that someone is me… My first real cameras, a Pentax MX in the 1980′s (sadly gone to be with jesus) followed by a Nikon FM2/n in 1996 (still going strong) were completely manual – ok they metered, but the battery would last for several years since metering was all they did. Both would work without the battery. However, and it is a big one, I never used them without the meter, ie on manual mode. I have an autofocussing Nikon F4s with arguably one of the finest matrix meters from that era (late 1980s) and still going strong. I use autofocus with it all the time and tend to leave it on matrix metering unless I need to spot meter. Once again, I never use the manual mode except occasionally. My DSLRs are absolutely never used in manual mode and I take advantage of every bit of automation available. It has something to do with what I use them for…  I’ve created some galleries of recent shoots with the Leicas. They are listed on the menu to the right under “Pages | Galleries”. Reducing them to 1000px maxpect hasn’t done some of them any favours, but there again maybe those are crap exposures anyway. Possibly related posts – automagicaly generated: No related posts. |
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