mmikaoj
eyemazer
Yes that is M for new Member
and M for new M2
First of let me introduce myself, Ive been sneaking around on the forum for a while but now I feel I am going to get more involved.
I am 21 years old and studies photography at a school in Stockholm, Sweden. Apart from photography I am interested in, amongst other things, politics, music, travells, litterature, skateboarding, street art, and life in the city.
I consider myself a libertarian socialist and I am a member of the syndicalists labour union here in sweden. I occasionaly write some articles and snap a few shots for a magazine to earn some extra money.
In photography I am mostly interested in taking photos of "real" and "honest" stuff, without sounding to pretenious. That is searching, hunting and chasing my subjects rather than constructing them. That leads me to a documentary style of photography and I particulary enjoy the challenge of taking photos in the streets.
I came into rangefinders through "the back door". My first camera was a digital compact, just 5 years ago. The next year I bought a Canons DSLR. And then I started to borrow books from the library, finding and making my own heroes of photography. Their images all had something mine lacked, a material feeling. So I got a Canon SLR and started to shoot some film, set up a darkroom and did my first (horrible) prints.
Last year I enrolled to a full time photography school and started to get some more experience, shot lots of film and began to realise that I was looking for something more simple yet more sophistcated (oh no, pretentious again!) than a SLR. (Also I went nuts and got several other cameras to toy around with, medium format, folders, lots of old stuff, Olympus XAs and so on)
So at last I bought a Leica CL, which I am now selling and since it didnt quite "feel right" (and now I am both picky and pretentious)
I decided to get M2. To keep it simple and learn stuff about light and not to use a light meter and seeing the image without obstructing technological mumbojumbo (yes you know the drill, an excuse for getting a M camera just five years younger than your father) ..
So here I am.
And here is my new camera, now Im just waiting for those 120 meters of bulk film to arrive so I can go out and snap some!
and M for new M2
First of let me introduce myself, Ive been sneaking around on the forum for a while but now I feel I am going to get more involved.
I am 21 years old and studies photography at a school in Stockholm, Sweden. Apart from photography I am interested in, amongst other things, politics, music, travells, litterature, skateboarding, street art, and life in the city.
I consider myself a libertarian socialist and I am a member of the syndicalists labour union here in sweden. I occasionaly write some articles and snap a few shots for a magazine to earn some extra money.
In photography I am mostly interested in taking photos of "real" and "honest" stuff, without sounding to pretenious. That is searching, hunting and chasing my subjects rather than constructing them. That leads me to a documentary style of photography and I particulary enjoy the challenge of taking photos in the streets.
I came into rangefinders through "the back door". My first camera was a digital compact, just 5 years ago. The next year I bought a Canons DSLR. And then I started to borrow books from the library, finding and making my own heroes of photography. Their images all had something mine lacked, a material feeling. So I got a Canon SLR and started to shoot some film, set up a darkroom and did my first (horrible) prints.
Last year I enrolled to a full time photography school and started to get some more experience, shot lots of film and began to realise that I was looking for something more simple yet more sophistcated (oh no, pretentious again!) than a SLR. (Also I went nuts and got several other cameras to toy around with, medium format, folders, lots of old stuff, Olympus XAs and so on)
So at last I bought a Leica CL, which I am now selling and since it didnt quite "feel right" (and now I am both picky and pretentious)
I decided to get M2. To keep it simple and learn stuff about light and not to use a light meter and seeing the image without obstructing technological mumbojumbo (yes you know the drill, an excuse for getting a M camera just five years younger than your father) ..
So here I am.
And here is my new camera, now Im just waiting for those 120 meters of bulk film to arrive so I can go out and snap some!
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