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INTRODUCTION / PRESENTACIÓN / PRESENTACIÓ

 

I'm a photo hobbist since years. My father teached me to use his Kodak Retina together with a CdS photometer when I was 13 y.o. and colour films were a luxury for our pocket. Full manual shot, including focussing by estimating the distance to the subject and making use of the deep of field marks of the lens. If you never used it, you're really young! The learning phase was far slower with those tools.

 

A new toy arrived at home, a brand new Pentax Spotmatic with SMC Super-Takumar lenses. Of course fix ones 35 f2 and 50 f1.2. I was too young to understand the optical quality and high performance of this equipment, even if my father was telling me everytime. With this camera, slides arrived at home, and of course the slide projection sessions with the family. And I continued my learning process when my father let me the nice tool, always insisting to take all the care.

 

Long years without owning a camera till I was 25, when I collected savings to buy a full equipment: Nikon F801s+28-85+70-210+50f1.4+SB-24. I discovered the wonders of auto-focus, zooms and matrix meters. Great tools, but I missed the deep-of-field marks on the lenses, I never liked this change... Still film and slide times.

 

Digital was just starting, but it was so primitive (did you ever see a Sony Mavika with floppy disks?), and Provia 100F and Velvia 50 gave the highest standards of colour for my taste. Did you use Kodak Portra 400 VC? Great negative for my modest social report exercises for friends and family. Combined with a pro lab, I got big photo pleasures shoting dozens of rolls per year, a real budget, believe me, but... My analog gear reached the top when I got a Nikon F100 and I started to discover the world of wide-angle with my Nikkor 20-35 f2.8 (now sleeping) and the pleasure of the heavy but incredible 70-200 f2.8 AF-S VR. New features (VR, fast focussing) but still shoting slides. And lots of pleasure when projected with my Leica projector on a good wall screen.

 

My first digital was a pocket Sony in 2004. Not bad for snapsots, but the colour of the slides was far more pleasant. My trip to Cuba in 2007 was the last one when I used the F100+slides, combined with a new pocket Sony.

 

My resistance to the digital revolution started to weaken when my lab (Zoom Centre de la Imatge, Sant Cugat, they print the best quality in my area) told me that they stopped the slide developping line due to the decreasing demand. And I finally moved to my current Nikon D300 in May 2008.

 

Scanning my preferred slides among my files of +2000 is still a pending task. I think I'd grab a film scanner, but I never take the decision...too busy with my job and my family.

 

I'll be happy if you spend some time visiting my modest gallery with a sample of my preferred photographic subjects, mainly shot during my holiday trips. I use to take photographs of lots of different subjects, except flowers, animals and topic sunsets. I like portrait too, but my main subject is my family, as well as few wedding works for friends that I keep in my private collection.

 

Thanks for reading and thanks for your visit!