Photography and this blog: The connection

 

There would never be a blog if it were not for my my interest in photography as much as the original blog host had very limited image support which was why it was I explored other hosts and moved to blogger.

After using childhood 127 film cameras, a 120 Twin Lens Reflex and brief period with a Zenith E, I settled on using a Olympus film gear that included a OM 4 advanced single lens reflex camera with marque lens, dedicated auto through the lens/manual  exposure flash and Winder 2 for remote or highly rapid picture taking that bolts on the underside improving grip and taking over from the manual film advance.

Its greatest feature was a combination of multi spot metering to set exposure better in difficult circumstances and the ability to store and adjust aperture and shutter speed settings to balance that exposure to match the way you wish to present the subject.

Currently I'm reliant on having slide or negative films processed and scanned to disc when developed which I then import to my ageing desktop computer to upload here while I look at how the digital camera market develops and what may work best for blogging which is where a digital camera would help cutting out the delays between going somewhere, finishing off the film roll and getting the processed film back.

That in its own way is why press photography moved rapidly to digital as speed makes big difference between getting copy out when it's of interest or not.