badbeachbuggy's charger (8 pics)
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Mr Buggy's Charger...
[pic]http://www.mattwatkinson.com/PH/charger1.jpg[/pic]
[pic]http://www.mattwatkinson.com/PH/charger2.jpg[/pic]
[pic]http://www.mattwatkinson.com/PH/charger3.jpg[/pic]
[pic]http://www.mattwatkinson.com/PH/charger4.jpg[/pic]
...is very popular across petrol stations in Croydon.
Matt
ps. Thanks for a cool morning nick, a pleasure to meet you.
[pic]http://www.mattwatkinson.com/PH/charger1.jpg[/pic]
[pic]http://www.mattwatkinson.com/PH/charger2.jpg[/pic]
[pic]http://www.mattwatkinson.com/PH/charger3.jpg[/pic]
[pic]http://www.mattwatkinson.com/PH/charger4.jpg[/pic]
...is very popular across petrol stations in Croydon.
Matt
ps. Thanks for a cool morning nick, a pleasure to meet you.
It is indeed a hasselblad, although it is on loan to me not my own. Although I havent used it much yet and I loaded the first film back to front 
i vastly prefer using it to the canon dslr.
The chap who lent it to me and I have had some pretty interesting dicussions about most technical and non technical aspects of photography, including the film versus digital question (we never decended to the technobabble of the d70 fraternity btw
).
To cut to the chase, when you have a good digital slr it is easy to pick one up and take good photos and essentially jump from point A to F. However, to progress further you have to go back and fill in B,C,D,and E.
I think one of the secrets of photography (for most stuff anyway) is a thorough, deliberate and as meticulous as possible, considering every element of the image: light (quality and quantity) composition (the wood and the trees), and exposure to name a few.
Digital photography engenders the antithesis of this mindset, by the very fact that the feedback is instant : I for one have spent a lot of time with my brain disengaged while I am shooting. Using medium format film just for this short time has both improved my skills hugely.
Aside from that I love the mechanical nature of the hasselblad, it really feels like you are taking the photo (not having it done for you), and I dont mind the two hour turnaround from the lab (although finding one can be a struggle). Only downside is the cost, but its a small price to pay if you get the results you want.
cheers
Matt
i vastly prefer using it to the canon dslr. The chap who lent it to me and I have had some pretty interesting dicussions about most technical and non technical aspects of photography, including the film versus digital question (we never decended to the technobabble of the d70 fraternity btw
). To cut to the chase, when you have a good digital slr it is easy to pick one up and take good photos and essentially jump from point A to F. However, to progress further you have to go back and fill in B,C,D,and E.
I think one of the secrets of photography (for most stuff anyway) is a thorough, deliberate and as meticulous as possible, considering every element of the image: light (quality and quantity) composition (the wood and the trees), and exposure to name a few.
Digital photography engenders the antithesis of this mindset, by the very fact that the feedback is instant : I for one have spent a lot of time with my brain disengaged while I am shooting. Using medium format film just for this short time has both improved my skills hugely.
Aside from that I love the mechanical nature of the hasselblad, it really feels like you are taking the photo (not having it done for you), and I dont mind the two hour turnaround from the lab (although finding one can be a struggle). Only downside is the cost, but its a small price to pay if you get the results you want.
cheers
Matt
nomoregravy said:
Digital photography engenders the antithesis of this mindset
Can't disagree with that. I sat on the beach in devon this weekend and decided to fire off a load of shots to stitch together a panorama.
Problem is I did it quickly without thinking, and to cut a long story short I
ed it up! Could recover from it with some PS work but should have got it right in the first place. Since a panorama of the sea view at "Beer" isn't high on my list of wants, I likely will never bother to finish it. That said, right now I get everything I want from my photography, and what I want is, I am certain, much less than you have already achieved without even considering your future plans!
Funds permitting I'd pick up an H1D or the likes and go medium format, and I'm sure I'd love it, but the lure of film is for me simply non existent Even if it were gauranteed to improve my photography beyond recognition. Weird eh?
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