Biography: Gareth Davies

[Gareth.Davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

     - Name: Gareth Davies
     
     - Profession/Study: Systems Engineer - Space Applications
     
     - Country: England
     
     - Personal history of photography:
     
     Started with an Agfa 110 camera at ~11 years old, settling on Nikon about 
     12 years ago, after working through a Pentax 110 SLR, Kodak Retinette and 
     Pentax Spotmatic (still going strong). I have a darkroom at home, which I  
     set up a couple of years ago.
     
     - preferred subjects: 
     Landscapes, cityscapes, aviation
     
     - materials (film, filters, paper, chemistry): 
     Kodak IR films (colour and monochrome), Velvia, Provia, Agfa Ultra, 
     Fuji negative films, Neopan. I currently print onto polyester based 
     Ilford Ilfochrome and Ilfocolor RA, plus Agfa Multicontrast B/W. 
     
     - format (35mm/medium format/large format): 
     Nikon 35 mm (various lenses from fish-eye up to 500 mm), Horizon 202 
     panoramic, also currently experimenting with stereo (Realist format 
     slides and Viewmagic print viewer)
     
     - Other strange hobbies: 
     Building/converting/improvising photographic equipment (e.g. darkroom 
     toys, stereo rigs, etc), model making (aircraft/space/ships)
     
     - How did you find out about this list: 
     E-mail contact with Willem-Jan, originally through the panorama mailing 
     list
     
     - Expand on anything photographic you like:
     Looking forward to trying Kodak monochrome IR in my Horizon (#87C filter 
     supplied by WJM), already hooked on Ektachrome IR in it.
     
     
     
     Gareth Davies
     gareth.davies@xxxxxxxxxxxx