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About me:

 

First of all: I'm not a professional fotograph. This is only a semi-pro hobby and I don't have the claim to compete against the Pro's.

 

In normal live I'm a management consultant and therefore this hobby is a good way for myself to balance the mental daily challenges within my job with visual creativity.

 

I started with photography work in the early 70s with an old Voigtländer from my stepfather. This camera has had a handcrafted Zeiss lens from the 30s which has made pictures with an increddible sharpness and deepness; never've seen something like this again. Because he has been working in the marketing industry for many years he owned also some photo lab equipment. So I started with self development, Ilford photo paper and this good smelling liquids of developer and fixer in my small darkroom, of course mainly focusing on black/white exposures.

 

In the early 80s I owned my first own SLR camera. It was a Canon AE1 and later moved to A1. In the late 80s i switched to a Contax (motor driven) which has had an amazing Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.7/50mm (I still use this lens nower days on my Olympus DSLR's today with an adaptor, as this stuff has an famous sharpness in open mode...). This camera was my trusted friend over many years and I mainly focused on DIAs (have to scan them some days...).

 

In the 90s I owned the first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 775 (really awful quality of themselv, also the pictures coming out) and later a Canon PowerShot S45 (small but handsome; makes really good pictures for a compact digi-cam). I've used this cam over several years for daily work and vacations, but not so intensive from the artistic / semi-professional perspective as in the early years before.

 

In 2008 I decided to check out this Digital SLR stuff.

 

The potential of the DSLR world including digital post-processing and imaging waked me up from my 'Sleeping Beauty' and pushed me deeply backwards into this nearly forgotten hobby and enthusiasm of the early 70s and 80s.

 

Today I own some Olympus bodies E420, E510, E30 with a set of Olympus Zuiko Digital lenses from 14-300mm.

 

Beside this I use some vintage MF prime lenses (manual focus/aperture) from Carl Zeiss (Yashica C/Y mount) for some 'special' shots, Planar 1.7/50mm, 1.4/50mm, Planar 2.0/100mm and esp. the 'magic' Planar 1.4/85mm for portraits and bokeh focused shots.

Further a selection of great Yashica ML / MC primes and tele (DSB 28mm, ML 24mm, ML 100 macro, ML 135mm, MC 28-80, ML 80-200). Especially the 100mm macro is outstanding, performing like the Zeiss and also excellent for portraits.

 

My newest baby populated my gear collection is a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. I use this awesome fullframe gear mostly in combination with my incredibble 'old' primes from Carl Zeiss and Yashica.

 

My focus areas are: portraits/people, architecture, creative still live, night shots and nature/macros. Stepped also into the area of fashion/beauty/act a while ago.

 

So let's work on it :-)