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Welcome to my brag page! This is the place where I try to impressyou with all my cameras, lenses, scanners, computers, and other high-tech toys I use to create the images and webpages for my home on the internet (haha).
Note:This page is pretty much invalid now, as I've "sold out" and have made the switch from film to digital. My primary camera is a Canon EOS D60, plus I have a Canon EOS D30 for backup. I have several Canon EF lenses. Sometime in the near future I plan on updating this page with my newer equipment. For now, have a look of the oldie stuff I used to capture most of the images currently on this website.
Cameras
- Canon T90
- Mid to late 1980's single lens reflex camera
- Uses 35mm film.
- Canon's very last manual focus camera. Incorporatesmany of the features found in the current EOS line. Styledlike an EOS.
- Professional level 35mm camera. Built like a tank. Hasmany, many whistles and bells.
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Canon F1N
- Late 1980's single lens reflex camera
- Uses 35mm film.
- Canon's last version of it's venable F1 series
- Professional level 35mm camera. Built better than a tank! Doesn't havea lot of features, but is real joy to operate. The F1 also has a reputationof reliability surpassed by few professional cameras.
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Canon A1
- Early 1980's single lens reflex camera.
- Manual focus.
- Uses 35mm film.
- Many very nice features. High end consumer grade camera in it's time.
- I owned one several years ago..could still kick myselffor selling it.
Camera Lenses
Here are the current Canon lenses I own and use for creating mostof my images. All are original Canon brand FD lenses.
- 24mm f2.8 new mount
- My favorite wide angle lens. Beautiful color saturation and contrast.
- 28mm f2.8 new mount
- Nice lens, good contrast and color. I don't use this lens a lot, guess it's too close to 24mm. Perhaps I should replace it with a 35mm??
- 50mm f1.4 SSC breech lock mount
- Nice 'standard' focal length lens, sharp, fast, good color saturation and contrast. I use to use this lens mainly for low light situations and time exposure night shots.
- 50mm f1.8 SC breech lock mount
- A fairly old standard 50mm lens. Came with a camera I bought, haven't used it much at all.
- 50mm f1.8 new mount
- Another newer standard 50mm lens. This one also came with a camera I bought. I used a lens like this one on my old Canon A1 for several years. Shoots a nice, average contrast, average color photograph.
My baby...what a piece of glass!
- 85mm f1.2L new mount
- What a lens! Wonderful sharpness, great color saturation, nice contrast, and very fast. Considered by many to be Canon's greatest lens, and to some as the finest lens ever made! (Now, before you Leica and Nikon fans start sending me hate mail, I didn't say it was the greatest lens..I'm only quoting what I've heard a few others say.)
- 135mm f2.5 breech lock mount
- It was cheap, it's fast, and produces a nice photograph. Plus it filled a focal length gap in fixed lenses that I didn't have.
- 300mm f4 new mount
- Nice long telephoto. Very sharp and nice contrast. Decent color saturation. At f4 it's more than fast enough to focus easily.
I love to use it with my Canon 1.4x and 2x teleconverters for some really long, highly compressed telephoto shots!
- 35-105mm f3.5 new mount
- One of Canon's crowning achievements in zoom lenses. Very sharp, great color and contrast. Some users feel this lens is every bit as good as Canon's prime lenses in the cover focal lengths. I picked this lens up at a bargin price because it has a slight scratch on the front element. The scratch doesn't seem to affect photo quality but it does seem to increase the chance of flare slightly. Oh well, someday I'll replace it with one that has perfect optics.
- 80-200mm f4L new mount
- Another crown jewel in Canon's zoom lens department. Very sharp, good color saturation, and very good contrast. Almost as good as most Canon prime lenses within it's focal length coverage. I use this lens the most because of the versatility of it's focal length coverage and the great images it produces. I only wish Canon had made a f2.8 version like they do now for their autofocus cameras..
- 100-200 f5.6 breech lock mount
- The first Canon zoom I bought, simply because it was cheap and I wanted a zoom lens. At f5.6 it's a little slow, and maybe a little hard to focus in low light environments. But it's not a bad lens..good color and contrast and fairly sharp. Since I own the much better f4L zoom now, this lens spends most of it's time on the shelf.
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Films
- Kodak Kodachrome 64 (color slide)
- Very natural colors.
- Very long term archival characteristics.
- Kodak Kodachrome 200 (color slide)
- Very natural colors.
- Very long term archival characteristics.
- Grain as big as golf balls :)
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li>Kodak E200 (color slide)
- Natural colors..almost as good as Kodachrome
- Very fine grain for a 200 asa film.
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- Kodak E100SW (color slide)
- Bright, saturated, natural colors. Slightly on the warm side.
- Reminds me of the old discontinued Fuji "Provia" film, my former favorite film.
- Kodak EPH-1600 (high speed color slide)
- Used primarily for low-light comet photos.
- Very grainy, but works nicely for astrophotographs.
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- Kodak Royal Gold 1000 (color print)
- Used primarily for low-light comet photos.
- Kodak PlusX Pan (B&W print)
- Good, general use black and white film.
Scanners
- HP Photosmart S10 Scanner
- Scans 35mm negatives and slides at up to 2400 dpi, scans photos up to 5 x 7 at 300 dpi.
- Very nice slide and negative scanner for under $500 U.S. Photo scans are so-so, since max resolution is only 300 dpi.
Not a big deal to me, as I shoot slides 99% of the time. Much better for shadow detail and noise than the original Photosmart
Scanner. Good scanning software package included with the scanner.
- Computer - Homebrew 'Frankenclone' that I put together from pieces I obtained from here and there.
- 1200 Mhz AMD K7.
- 768 Megabytes Ram.
- ATI video card with 32 meg video memory.
- 19 & 21 inch monitors.
Photographer
- Name: Jerry Sharp
- Residence: Longmont, Colorado
- Age: 45 and getting older by the minute
- Hobbies: Photography, Trains, Amateur Radio (KD0GS), Travel, Computers
- Career: Electronics Technician.
- Martial Status: Single
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