rec.photo.equipment.35mm participant profile
Alan Browne - alan dot browne at videotron dot ca
Location: Near Montreal, Quebec.
Photography: aviation, nature, events, portraits, scenic, landscape, macro...
Years of photography experience: a bunch back in the 80's, and a bunch since the mid 90's.
Years on r.p.e.35mm: about 5
Photo collection online at www.photo.net (these are mostly photos shared with others. Not a definite portfolio).
Equipment:
bodies: Maxxum 7xi, Maxxum 9.
Maxxum lenses: 20mm f/2.8, 50mm f/1.7, 100 mm f/2.8 macro, 300mm f/2.8, 28-70 f/2.8, 80-200 f/2.8.
flashes: 3500xi, 5400HS, 5600HS, Sunpack (X), Multiblitz Compactlite studio strobes (2), Opus M40
Tripods: Manfrotto 190 with 254RC ballhead; Manfroto 85B with Wimberley head
Monopod: Manfrotto 682 with 254RC ballhead
Scanners: Dimage Scan Elite 5400 (film), Mustek 1200 III EP (flatbed)
Odds and ends too many to list.
Film preferences
Portrait: Portra 160NC (EI'd at 100).
Most everything else is slide films: Sensia 100 as general purpose; Velvia for color punch and others including E100S, E100G, E100GX, Provia 100F and Velvia 100F.