David Hunt

In my business life, I help people with computers, networks and telecommunications, however I have always counted photography among my hobbies.

Starting in pre-teen years, with a plastic toy camera from the local variety store, I soon graduated to using my mother’s old Box Brownie. It was then that I became interested in developing my own film and set up a dark room at home. As a teenager I started using my father’s Practica 35mm with slide film and several lenses (separate manual light meter). There was nothing automatic about any of these. Quite separately, I also engaged in lithographic photography, at home, for the production of my own electronic printed circuit boards.

In my twenties, I upgraded to a Pentax ME Super and bought some additional lenses, plus using the previous ones with adapter rings.

My first move into digital photography was with the purchase of a Nikon CoolPix 950 while on a four month consulting assignment in the UK. It took a while to get used to the lower dynamic light range that the digital camera could capture, versus the positive film, with which I was familiar.

In 2008, I updated to my second digital camera; a Canon PowerShot G9 (12.1 Megapixels), and have been very happy with it. My reason for buying this model was to stay with a “compact”, and avoid the hassle of changing lenses, while giving me full manual control over the camera settings. I’ve since learned a new term for such a camera, being a bridge camera. ie. all the control features of an SLR, but without the size, weight and other features specific to an SLR.

Funnily enough, this camera sparked a revival of my interest. I now own the telephoto and wide-angle adapter lenses as well as a nice new tripod.

During 2011, I got the bug to try digital video. Something else I have long had an interest in, but never actually followed up. You can see some of my efforts in makin g short video clips at my YouTube Channel