Mal Holmes
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- Liverpool / UK
Hi...
Found my way to this Forum quite by chance... but very impressed by the information on here. I find there are too many 'photographers' who downcry serious smaller cameras, but this must be through a mere lack of investigation into these little gems.
I started photography (amateur) in the early 70's with a Zenith, but soon chose the Pentax range, working my way after some years up to their pro Pentax LX and the usual range of lenses, accessories and darkroom. I was glad of those early years, as it got the 'large' camera fad over early in my life....
Anyway with the advent of digital, I bought one of the first cameras, which was a Canon 'ION'... a little still video camera... this was soon followed by one of the very first true digitals... a fuji, which only took bitmap images. When I was a lad.... true 'quality' came from Germany, and so when Leica introduced their first digitals (in partnership with Fuji) I jumped at them. I remember buying the first Leica over 2MP (Leica Digilux 4.3) WOW !!! such a large image pixel..... surely no camera will EVER get higher than this....I thought... lol
As technology has evolved.... I now have a range of Leica's including the lovely little 'carry around' D-lux 3 which sits in the middle of my range, but what a little work-horse.... and have recently bought the Lumix LX5.. really impressive !!! These serious compacts now make photography the fun it was in the early days with more and more features to add to creativity, but without the hassle of carrying a shed load of equipment around with you...
Well that's enough from me.....
Going to enjoy reading the blogs and seeing other peoples images with the full range of Compact Gems available to date
Found my way to this Forum quite by chance... but very impressed by the information on here. I find there are too many 'photographers' who downcry serious smaller cameras, but this must be through a mere lack of investigation into these little gems.
I started photography (amateur) in the early 70's with a Zenith, but soon chose the Pentax range, working my way after some years up to their pro Pentax LX and the usual range of lenses, accessories and darkroom. I was glad of those early years, as it got the 'large' camera fad over early in my life....
Anyway with the advent of digital, I bought one of the first cameras, which was a Canon 'ION'... a little still video camera... this was soon followed by one of the very first true digitals... a fuji, which only took bitmap images. When I was a lad.... true 'quality' came from Germany, and so when Leica introduced their first digitals (in partnership with Fuji) I jumped at them. I remember buying the first Leica over 2MP (Leica Digilux 4.3) WOW !!! such a large image pixel..... surely no camera will EVER get higher than this....I thought... lol
As technology has evolved.... I now have a range of Leica's including the lovely little 'carry around' D-lux 3 which sits in the middle of my range, but what a little work-horse.... and have recently bought the Lumix LX5.. really impressive !!! These serious compacts now make photography the fun it was in the early days with more and more features to add to creativity, but without the hassle of carrying a shed load of equipment around with you...
Well that's enough from me.....
Going to enjoy reading the blogs and seeing other peoples images with the full range of Compact Gems available to date
