Another new user
Nov 7, 2011 14:29:31 #
This looks a very good forum for sharing info. My fun with photography goes back to about 1975 with the purchase of my first SLR. A Petri. (hold the laughter) I soon found myself with a partial scholarship to a small community college that involved my working at an equally small newspaper where in addition to shooting assignments I pretty much took over all the darkroom activities. I would not trade that experience for anything. Eventually I ended up working at a local camera store and became interested in doing repairs. I spent a year in Denver at National Camera and worked for about three years at a well established repair center before opening my own repair business and running it for about 23 years. Inexpensive digital finally made it impossible to earn a living in my location. I would love to try to help anyone with repair questions on film SLR's from the late 60's to late 80's. Might not be able answer everthing but I'll give it a try. Most of work dealt with Canon, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, and Pentax but I tried a little of everything.
pounder35
pounder35
Nov 7, 2011 16:00:39 #
Your experience will be valuable to many hog members,welcome!
Nov 7, 2011 20:18:37 #
Thank you. I've been playing around with digital with my Canon D60 and trying to teach myself CS5. It's fun but I miss the old fashion darkroom also. I have the equipment but can't find the time to set everything up. I bought a Mamiya 645 1000S recently on Ebay and some Ilford paper which is probably the best paper I ever used. I'm plan to buy some Ilford 120 but would rather wait until I can set up the darkroom. I'll check out the site further and see if there is anyone still getting wet. (Film the old fashion way.) It's funny but I talk to people on occasion at camera meets and they don't know pre-digital and darkrooms. What a shame.
pounder35
pounder35
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