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[Chris Firth]

Hi Everyone

New boy on the block.
Just purchased a Canon DSLR, so open to hints and suggestions.

Cheers
Chris

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Welcome Chris - great choice of camera and forum!

You been taking photos before then, and just got a new camera?

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Hi Chris, and welcome. I've found loads of help and support here. Looking forward to your contributions.

 

[Aleks Isachenko]

Hi Chris. Welcome. I think that the good way to get an answer or hint is to ask what you want to know. Generally, people answer if they know the subject.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Hi Chris
Welcome to the forum!
So what do you want to know?
Have you done much photography before?

 

[Pete Askew]

Welcome to RPF Chris. I'm sure you will enjoy yourself here and there is plenty of help on hand. What sort of photography do you have planned?

 

[Chris Firth]

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone

My background in photography is a little bit unusual - I started off working in the darkrooms of the Retinal Photographic Unit at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital.
I spent a big chunk of my working day processing and printing fluoroscine photographs of the retina.
During my time there I gradually progressed onto taking clinical shot of the same.

Funnily enough I recently had my eyes tested and checked, and the stuff I used to do is now instantly available for assessment, as it's all digital and server based.
So I was pleased to see picture of my own retinas again, and I could see that there was nothing much awry with them.

I left that work years ago, and ended up drifting into what I do now, which is telecommunications and data network installations - I spend much time putting cables into businesses.

My photography tends to be kids and family stuff, so nothing fancy really.
I just like having decent tools on hand to do the job - there's only so much you can do with the camera on a mobile phone.
I've had Canon cameras for years (mine was an AE1), so when I needed to replace a bridge camera my son had managed to damage I decided to plump for the Canon.
It's a nice piece of kit, and pretty intuitive to use - gives great flesh tones under flash and on full automatic too

 

[Ben Jennings]

Welcome Chris. Hope you enjoy it here.

P.S. The AE-1 is a lovely camera, have one myself and it's one I tend to take with me the majority of the time.

 

[Hamish Gill]

I just like having decent tools on hand to do the job - there's only so much you can do with the camera on a mobile phone.

Its amazing really ... I took this the other day with my iphone and an app called nightcap

On that subject this might be of interest to you
http://www.realphotographersforum.com/other-hobbies-interests-non-photography-related/3461-show-off-your-hifi-thread-8.html



Interesting background in photography Chris... did you ever process your own film at home?

 

[Chris Firth]

Its amazing really ... I took this the other day with my iphone and an app called nightcap

That's a novel way of setting antiskate.
Is the bubble in your spirit level broken?

Interesting background in photography Chris... did you ever process your own film at home?

I did my own monochrome processing at work.
The colour stuff was always done out of house.

Chris