Biography

[Ari Pesonen <ari.pesonen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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- Name: Ari Pesonen

- Profession: Librarian

- Country: Finland

- Personal history of photography 
  Serious amateur since 1969 (except a period of hibernation 1981-1986).
  Member of a camera club. Occasionally some successful contributions to 
  exhibitions.
  
- preferred subjects:
  nothing special and everything

- materials (film, filters, paper, chemistry):
  I prefer Fuji's colour films for prints and slides, I currently also
  use their colour paper. For B&W I use films in yellow boxes and 
  Ilford Multigrade. 
  Chemistry: Tetenal for colour prints, D-76 (or ID-11) for B&W films and
  Agfa for B&W prints. I don't develop colour negatives or slides myself 
  (however, I do it sometimes) because I haven't any proper method to maintain 
  the high temperature.
  I also use Polaroid 665 P/N in my home made view camera. It's expensive but
  convenient.
  My IR experience is almost non-existing. I'm with you to learn
  something new.

- format (35mm/medium format/large format): 
  All of them. 35 for colour negative & slides, medium for colour 
  negative & B&W, sometimes slides, large for B&W. Most of my equipment
  was made long ago, so they don't melt if you accidentally touch 
  them with a hot iron.

- Other strange hobbies:
  Member of the Finnish Photohistorical Society.

- How did you find out about this list:
  By accident. I was looking for information about Rollei.

- Expand on anything photographic you like:
  I want to buy a lens hood (Gegenlichtblende) for Rolleiflex TLR, bayonet
  size II. It's hard find here.



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