#leaf aptus

[andrazblaznik]

Last Shell Clam Shell Station, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

[vpwphoto]

Settling into the digital age....

Still more than 75% of my photographic career was spent creating images on silver halide films of all sorts. Late nights, early afternoons and frantic or missed lunch hours spent in the darkroom both processing and printing images.

The digital age arrived and I photographed my first commercial assignment for Girtz Industries with an Olympus E-10.  I remembered being worried that the flashes from the welders and plasma cutters at this manufacturing plant would ruin the sensor in the E-10.  

From the E-10 I graduated to the Fuji S2, S3 and then S5 (they never made an S4).  I became comfortable photographing weddings and all manner of assignments and subjects at Purdue University with digital equipment.  

In the studio I bought a $55,000 Dicomed back for the Hasselblad for pennies on the dollar in 2005, I graduated to a Leaf Aptus a couple years later and still the Aptus on the Hasselblad can surpass what the D700 can achieve.

.... So why do I miss silver halide film and the darkroom?  More to come....