About dezzography

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix

"Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round, Love and only love, it can't be denied." - Bob Dylan

"All you need is love." - John Lennon

I started out snapping with a Fujifilm Finepix A204, but after that stopped working I got my Dad's old Yashica TL Electro out of the loft and carried on from there.

I like SLRs with the M42 mount - plenty of cameras and lenses available cheaply on eBay. "Cheap" being my budget at the moment.

I've also bought a couple of rangefinders to try out, but I think I'll stick to the SLRs. In the future I will (hopefully!) upgrade to a mid-range DSLR. When that future will be is anybody's guess.

Cameras I use:
Yashica TL Electro
Praktica Super TL
Praktica MTL 5B
Olympus Trip 35
Canon Canonet 28 (custom red leather trim)

Cameras to be used:
Ricoh 500G
Yashica Campus

Cameras that I'd love to use but are broken:
Yashica Electro 35 GS

Hopefully as I learn more the quality of my photos will improve. Otherwise I'll shamefully retire! It's been good learning the basics about composition, film speed, etc, and they should help me in getting those better shots. Photoshop's "Shadows & Highlights" adjuster helps a lot too! I've nothing against the digital editing of shots - anything to bring out the best in them!

I suppose ultimately if I'm happy with a picture then that's good enough for me, but the fact I want to upload stuff on here must mean I hope other people will enjoy my pics too. Hopefully. I hope.

Perhaps I should edit this later on and put some bits elsewhere? Anyway, that'll do for now. If I had to name my favourite photographers at the moment I guess it would have to be Man Ray, Weegee, Lee Miller, Diane Arbus and Robert Altman. That will be added to.

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