Intro

[v.bromfield@xxxxxxxxxx (Vaughan Bromfield)]

Folks

My name is Vaughan Bromfield, and I presently managing staff computer
training at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia). I have
studied both photography and adult education (and a bit of electrical
engineering too, depending on how far you want to go back) and really enjoy
teaching others how to make photographs, especially black and white
printing.

My experience with IR is so far limited to buying the film... I am in the
process of building my own darkroom and am waiting for that to finish
before I continue further, the rationale being that -- from what I have
read in books and on the net -- I will need to do a lot of practical
testing to really fine tune the exposure / processing / printing. And being
a fine-print kinda guy, I want to maximise detail and minimise grain as
much as possible.

I will use Olympus 35mm equipmentfor the IR work, having just sold my
Linhof Technika V 4x5 outfit to fund the darkroom renovation, and intend to
experiment with Kodak's film first.

For the other Olympus people out there, I have an OM1n, OM2n, Motor Drive
2, Zuiko 16mm f3.5, 21mm f2, 35mm f2.8, 50mm f1.8, 135mm f2.8, 200mm f4...
the OM2n and 21mm equipment gets the most use though! I have at various
stages owned an OM4, 35f2, 50f3.5 macro, 300f4.5, 135f3.5, 85f2, and I am
looking a buying the Macro 135mm f4.5 + Telescopic Auto Tube... anybody out
there have one already?

I note that others on the list have mentioned their desire to move into
large format. I will be happy to talk to all and sundry about this, though
I should mention that I found I used 4x5 only for architectural work. Yes I
tried *hard* to do landscape with LF, but it just wasn't for me. I value
the advantages of 35mm, it suits my style better. (Read the book "The 35mm
Panorama" by Rodger Hicks. He discusses this very issue, the fact that he
found his best landscape work was done on 35mm. Sorry, Ansel.)

Anyway, that's all for now.

Vaughan


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