Photography - Our Hobby
Donna started taking photos in early childhood with a Kodak Brownie 127 camera. She graduated to a Voigtländer Vitoret in early teenage and then to a Canon FTb in her early 20s. She experimented with a Mamiyaflex C220 twin lens reflex for a time but was happier using the 35mm format so traded the Mamiyaflex for another Canon, the later model FTb-N. In the late 80s the Canons were traded for a Minolta 9000 Dynax. This was soon given up for a Canon Hi-8 movie camera which proved to be a total disaster and left Donna in the photo wilderness for over a decade. Interest was re-awakened in 2005 when Malcolm purchased his first DSLR.
Malcolm started photography in the late 1970s with a Yashica Minister rangefinder camera. Malcolm purchased a Minolta X-300 in the mid 80s then an X-500 some time later. These were traded for a Nikon Coolpix 950 and thus we heralded the digital age. Malcolm then became very interested in Foveon technology and invested in the Sigma SD10 DSLR. He upgraded to the Sigma SD14 late in 2007 and was , for a time, quite satisified with the results. However, the limitations of the Sigma/Foveon finally told and he purchased a Canon EOS50D when it was released in 2008.
Donna used Malcolm's discarded Sigma SD10 until she purchased a Sigma SD14 of her own at Christmas 2007. She too found the Sigma/Foveon very limiting and as she had always hankered after a Nikon so, finally realising her dream, a Nikon D300 was purchased in 2008.
All of the photographs in this gallery have been taken with the kit described above.
The menu to the left of this page links to our current digital photo gallery. For a taste of what we were up to from the mid 1970s onwards, there are a few sample images in our 35mm film archive that may be of interest.
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All images on this site have been optimised for viewing on the Web so are neither full size nor full resolution.
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