Time Travel

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It started in 1970 with a Kodak Instamatic.

 

A Yashica 35mc followed in 1974. Of course what I was doing as a teenager couldn't really be called photography, but it was a start and the passion grew.

 

In 1978 I discovered my father's old Contarex together with a 50mm and a 135mm lens. The camera was a really good teacher when it came to aperture, shutter speed and ISO (or rather DIN back then...).

 

Since I was a bit limited with the lenses, I bought a Canon AE1 program.

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It got serious when I started working as a press photographer in 1984 to finance my computer science education. Special thanks to my friend Stefan Krutsch, then "Bavarian State School for Photography" (yes, that's what it was called back then...). I learned from him in an intensive crash course in black and white negative and positive editing, including sports photography, relevant details such as "pushing" ISO 400 films to ISO 1600 for floodlight games. So came a Canon F1 and later an EOS1/n. It was the time of the Tri-X Pan films and the development of films and positives under time pressure. That was the only time I really worked as a photographer.

 

When digital photography came along, I sold all my analog gear. I started fresh when full frame sensors became affordable with the Nikon D700.

 

Then back to the "real stuff" with the D3s, followed by the D4, D4s and D5 which I only recently sold.

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Current equipment is one Z8, 2 D850, and one D500. Nikon lenses from 8mm to 500mm, Profoto A10, 2 cheap studio flashes. Underwater Isotta housing and Inon Z330 Type 2.

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