Paul Bestwick
pro member
Hi, I am Paul from Tasmania Australia. A brief history starting in about 1968 when I took my first photo (which I still have) at Taronga Park zoo in Sydney using a Kodak box Brownie. My first SLR was a pentax ME Super, & have since owned Olympus, Nikon Leica, Bronica, & mostly for about 12 years Hasselblads.
I worked for Canon inMelbourne in their photographic service dept for 4 years which is where I came to the realization that Canon were the best cameras available for my purposes. I had a couple of Eos 1bodies followed up by a couple of 1N's. I started out in digital with a D30 & continued to shoot weddings combining digital while also shooting film in my Blads. I got a D60 (regretfully really, in hindsight the D30 was just as good & I should have saved my money) then a 1Ds. Soon after that I flicked film & currently use a 1Ds II. Unlike the move from the D30 to D60, I reckon that the 1DSII is a significant improvement. What next...... well, I would speculate that the holy grail is dynamic range & my expectation is that Canon will make improvements in this area. Oh yea, I only shoot raw by the way. I had this 70-200 2.8 for about 5 years.......absolutely loved it. I sold that to get the is version, my favourite lens.
I mainly shoot weddings & portraits & for the past seven years have a main street studio in downtown Hobart. Looking forward to some quality time here
I worked for Canon inMelbourne in their photographic service dept for 4 years which is where I came to the realization that Canon were the best cameras available for my purposes. I had a couple of Eos 1bodies followed up by a couple of 1N's. I started out in digital with a D30 & continued to shoot weddings combining digital while also shooting film in my Blads. I got a D60 (regretfully really, in hindsight the D30 was just as good & I should have saved my money) then a 1Ds. Soon after that I flicked film & currently use a 1Ds II. Unlike the move from the D30 to D60, I reckon that the 1DSII is a significant improvement. What next...... well, I would speculate that the holy grail is dynamic range & my expectation is that Canon will make improvements in this area. Oh yea, I only shoot raw by the way. I had this 70-200 2.8 for about 5 years.......absolutely loved it. I sold that to get the is version, my favourite lens.
I mainly shoot weddings & portraits & for the past seven years have a main street studio in downtown Hobart. Looking forward to some quality time here