I have a great passion for photography. I got my first camera as a hand-me-down from my father, a Kodak Instamatic. My first 'real' medium format SLR camera was a Pentacon Six with superb set of Carl-Zeiss-Jena lenses made in the former East-Germany. I turned our family pantry-room into a darkroom and spent there countless hours until I got dizzy from the smell of chemicals as it had no ventilation at all.