My first digital camera was a Casio QV-10 which was 640x480 pixels and drained a set of batteries after 20 shots. I didn’t use it much as it always seemed to have flat batteries.

In January 2004 I bought a Canon Powershot A80 on a work trip. The next day was a Saturday and I drove for 5 hours to get to the Grand Canyon, filled the memory card and was hooked on photography.

After a year or so of taking hundreds of bad pictures of everything I saw I joined Photosig. What a revelation, you could take fantastic photos with any camera. Looking at good and bad photos really made me think about what I was doing, it didn’t make me any better but at least I had an idea of what I was doing wrong. I decided to try to slow down and think about what I was doing. I bought a Lubitel 166 and a few rolls of 120 film. Then it was off to ebay for some film developing kit. Again I was hooked, I forgot digital and threw myself at film.

Now I shoot a mixture of Digital and film depending on my mood and what camera I have in my hand.

At present I have:

Nikon D100 (my workhorse)

Nikon F90x (love the feel of this camera)

Nikon F601 x 2 (cost £5 for the two so these are disposable)

Mamiya C300 (what a fantastic brick of a camera)

Fed4 (may go back on ebay)

Iskra MkI (love this but it’s started to miss feed the film)

Pentax SP500 (needs a service but a lovely camera)

I still take too many bad photos and carry too much equipment but I live in hope that one day I can produce images that show what I feel and not just what I’ve seen.

Nick

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