I like both film and digital photography. Sometimes both at the same time. I love cameras, too - both collecting them as well as using them. Sometimes both.

 

I also like to develop film - something that goes back 50+ years to my youth, when I was a high school yearbook photographer, then as the Penn State Altoona Campus ROTC newsletter photographer. Back when film was all there was.

 

I used to bulk load Tri-X 400 black and white onto 35mm canisters. I shot B&W almost exclusively.

 

I took photography as an elective in high school and was immediately hooked - I got to use the high school darkroom, and that started my interest which led to a home (black & white) darkroom. I have never developed color film - yet. But it's on my bucket list.

 

Today I scan in all my negatives on an Epson V550 scanner, and don't print on the enlarger anymore. That part of the photography process is probably gone from my life forever - unless I decide to build a darkroom someday.

 

I have been a free Flickr member since 2005 after Yahoo purchased the site and made it possible to easily backup all your photos to the site automagically. That was in a time when one might only have a few hundred photos in their digital photograph library. Yahoo allowed you to have an unlimited number of photos in that backup.

 

I then used the Flickr site to host pictures from the Long Beach Island DXpedition... www.radiodxing.com

 

In the early 2020's Flickr decided to disallow unlimited posting of photos on the site for "free" account users (and sent me many, many "you are in violation of our terms" messages) so I removed thousands of photographs that were hosted on the site. Some from LBI were re-hosted on my work site but recently (2023) my employer announced that hosting platform was going away, so I am now looking to re-host all the photos from the LBI DXpedition. They will likely end up posted to the website in some truncated form.

 

In early 2023 I posted some "found film" images here that I scanned from B&W negatives that I found in a box in my home. Turns out they were taken by Jim Samois in Hawaii in 1946.

 

At the encouragement of some of my photography friends I started to post some of my favorite "walking around" photos (mostly black & white, but also some color shots).

I like to shoot both digital and film, using a variety of modern and vintage cameras.

 

About Me:

 

B&W negative photography 1960's - present

- self developed and printed @ home and school darkrooms

- started on a 127 B&W toy camera in the 1960's, then a 126 Kodak Instamatic X-15 in the 1970's

- 35mm Petri FTX SLR in 1975 (currently has a stuck shutter, so is a shelf queen)

 

Color/B&W negative shooting 1981 - present

- Kodak disc 4000 w/disc film

- Kodak Ektralite 400 w/110 film

- 35mm Nikon FM (MF=manual focus) 35mm film with 28 and 50mm prime lenses

- 35mm Olympus OM-10 (MF) 35mm film

- 35mm Sears KS Super (MF) 35 mm film

- various 35mm film Point & Shoots (Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Ricoh and Olympus)

- 120 film Yashica-A TLR

- 35mm film Minolta Maxxum 5, 50, 70, 700si, 3000i, 5000, 7000i, HT Si and Maxxum 350 Si Date (all AF=autofocus "A" mount lenses); various Nikon AF SLR's (N2020, N4004/S, F-601, N8008 all with AF Nikon lenses) and Canon EOS (650, Elan II, various Rebels with Canon EF lenses)

- various Fuji Instax and SX70/600 Polaroid instant film cameras

- Canon DX Lite APS SLR

- Canon Photura Caption 35mm

- Kodak No. 2D 5x7" view camera for large format (I've only shot positive paper in it so far)

 

Digital photography

- various iPhone cameras

- Canon 40D CMOS 10 MP (Canon "EF" mount)

- Fujifilm Finepix S7000 bridge camera (RIP)

- Nikon Coolpix 3100, L5 and L110 point & shoots

- Nikon D40 CCD DSLR (DX lens Nikon "F" Mount) - my first DSLR

- Nikon D90 CMOS DSLR (DX & FX lens Nikon "F" Mount)

- Nikon P610 "super zoom" bridge camera

- Sony SLT-a57 (Minolta "A" mount)

 

As you may have noticed, I like getting older tech cameras (both film & digital) as my "daily shooters"