Michel BRAUD
New member
I discovered this forum yesterday and wish to introduce myself.
I have started photography when I was fifteen with a Kodak Retinette. I worked during my school holidays to buy my first enlarger and my first SLR an Edixa Prismat LTL with Komura lens, that was a long time ago !
Since then my work brought me all over the world with many different cameras 6x6, 6x9, 4x5, I have left some Leicas and an Hasselblad.
But up to now I didn’t step into digital (exception made for a small TZ3) because I didn’t find quality and price to my test. I didn’t find the technology mature enough but time has changed that.
Digital storage bothers me a lot as well as fast obsolescence and reliability. But I am prepared now to get into it with a cheap body on which I could fit my lenses, as over the years I spent so much on gear and want to keep going with what I have. I won’t mind changing the camera every four to five years but not the lenses as I am pleased with what I have for now.
I am then lurking on the new Canon 450D with a mount adapter for my Leica lenses.
Any style of photography has my interest, even the ones I cannot practice, but what I love best is when a photography tells an aesthetic story.
I gave up long ago my darkroom except for film/slides treatment, and replaced it with a 17x22 printer with different scanners.
Michel
I have started photography when I was fifteen with a Kodak Retinette. I worked during my school holidays to buy my first enlarger and my first SLR an Edixa Prismat LTL with Komura lens, that was a long time ago !
Since then my work brought me all over the world with many different cameras 6x6, 6x9, 4x5, I have left some Leicas and an Hasselblad.
But up to now I didn’t step into digital (exception made for a small TZ3) because I didn’t find quality and price to my test. I didn’t find the technology mature enough but time has changed that.
Digital storage bothers me a lot as well as fast obsolescence and reliability. But I am prepared now to get into it with a cheap body on which I could fit my lenses, as over the years I spent so much on gear and want to keep going with what I have. I won’t mind changing the camera every four to five years but not the lenses as I am pleased with what I have for now.
I am then lurking on the new Canon 450D with a mount adapter for my Leica lenses.
Any style of photography has my interest, even the ones I cannot practice, but what I love best is when a photography tells an aesthetic story.
I gave up long ago my darkroom except for film/slides treatment, and replaced it with a 17x22 printer with different scanners.
Michel
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