Nick Payne
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I've had an interest in photography for a bit over half a century, since the age of about ten, when my father bought himself a new camera and gave me his old 35mm Zeiss Ikonta to use. As he had his own darkroom, I was able to develop and print my own film (B&W) from the start. As I've always tended to get around on foot or by bicycle, most of my photos over the years have been taken using a succession of good quality 35mm pocketable cameras - after the Zeiss Ikonta, I acquired a Rollei 35, then an Olympus XA, and finally a Ricoh GR1. Around 2002 I bought my first digital camera, but it wasn't until last year that I acquired a digital camera that I thought matched my compact film cameras for size and image - a Ricoh GR. I've also possessed a number of SLRs over the years, and a number of 6x6 and 6x7 cameras, but not being nearly as convenient to carry, they don't see as much use as the smaller cameras.
Over the last few years I have been gradually scanning my collection of negatives, using a Polariod Sprintscan 35+ that I bought cheap off eBay. Scanning them reasonably chronologically, I've worked my way through to about 1990 so far. There's a selection of the scanned 35mm B&W images here: https://picasaweb.google.com/njhp94/35mmScans?authkey=Gv1sRgCN7VyIeJ1aO-Dg.
My next project, once I finish scanning the 35mm images, will be to acquire a scanner capable of scanning my 120 film images.
Over the last few years I have been gradually scanning my collection of negatives, using a Polariod Sprintscan 35+ that I bought cheap off eBay. Scanning them reasonably chronologically, I've worked my way through to about 1990 so far. There's a selection of the scanned 35mm B&W images here: https://picasaweb.google.com/njhp94/35mmScans?authkey=Gv1sRgCN7VyIeJ1aO-Dg.
My next project, once I finish scanning the 35mm images, will be to acquire a scanner capable of scanning my 120 film images.