http://www.blogigo.co.uk/cocokee Want to be a professional photographer en koko_2005 koko_2005 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:35:16 +0200 daily 1 My exposure to photography dated back to my childhood through my father. When I was little my country was not doing as well as tody. Camera was a luxury. Few people owned it. Because of his profession my father had access to various cameras, most of them 120cm. including Leica. All manual. When he did not work he would spend hours and hours playing with them and taking pictures of me and my brother and other people, as well as the plants in our garden. Most of them were black and white. Sometimes he could not finish developing all the films in the darkroom. He had to bring them back home. He created his own darkroom in one of our rooms by blocking windows with layers and layers of blankets. Or simply turned the space under a bed into a darmroom. My father, me and my brother crawled under the bed. First, he took the film out of his camera inside a blanket. Then dip them under a big bowl first for a while until we saw image showing up, and then move... Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:35:16 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/cocokee/my-father-and-photography/2/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/cocokee/my-father-and-photography/2/ My first SLR 35mm camera. A few things I am looking into which I believe imporant to me: Either Nikkon or Canon Auto Aperature Lock Both manual and auto Lens: the largest and smallers aperature, perferrably 28-105. Aftermarket brands are fine, including Sigma. Pop-up flash. R123 battery, which is more economical.   <a href=' http://www.blogstreet.com/bin/profile.cgi?url=blogigo.co.uk/koko_2005' > <img src=" http://www.blogstreet.com/images/owner/blogstreet_home.gif?WUPRZHBY1121798989 " border=0 /></a> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:16:12 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/cocokee/SLR-camera/1/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/cocokee/SLR-camera/1/