I’m just a guy with a camera who enjoys shooting photos. I started taking pictures in high school in Ohio. I was taking 2 years of a film photography class. I was given the opportunity to take photos, develop my own film, use an enlarger, and develop my own prints. I absolutely fell in love with capturing the world through a viewfinder, hence the name Pentaprism Views. My mechanical brain was also satiated by adjusting all the manual exposure, aperture, and focus settings on my Canon AE-1 to capture the perfect image.
After I left the film photo class, I focused more on high-school sports, academics, and socializing with a newfound friend group. Photography fell off the map for me, and my beloved AE-1 made its way into a collection of old camera gear that belonged to my mom. I went to college, and that camera collected… well, not so much dust, but rather just age because it was safe in a camera bag.
In college, I studied Physics, where, among many other things, I learned about optics. After graduating, this deeper understanding of the fundamentals of how a camera works and a new, heightened passion for understanding the depths of how technology works renewed my love for taking photos. I started shooting on my phone and posting those photos to my friends.
Eventually, I got tired of the quality the phone could provide with its limited lens setup, so I got my hands on a Canon EOS Rebel T5. I started with the bog-standard EF-S 18-35mm and the rather-nice-to-have EF 75-300mm. Although a good start, like always, that was never going to be enough. GAS, am I right?
Remember that old camera bag with my mom’s camera gear? That’s where this comes back into the story. While visiting home, I asked my mom if I could have my old camera and borrow any of that camera stuff she wasn’t using anymore. In that bag, or rather, bags, as it turns out, there was her old gear and my grandfather’s cameras and gear. Some of the highlights from this collection include a Polaroid SX-70, a Wirgin folding compur, a Minolta Hi-Matic AF2, and a Nikon FT-2. I took what I could fit in my luggage back home to Seattle, and that’s what I’m shooting with now.
And that’s my story… so far.
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