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I'm new to this forum, but not so new to photography.
I started seriously in 1967 with an Asahi Pentax S1a and in 1968 with my own darkroom in a cupboard under the stairs at home.
I graduated as a photographer (1981) and designer/decorator (1998) and ran my own photo and design studio for 30 years.
I started digital photography late, in 2008, because I wasn't really that interested.
My main interest still remains analog photography, which is what I grew up with, and since last year I've been working more with analog photography again.
What has remained the same for me, both in the analog and digital eras, is my preference for b&w photography, graphic techniques, and photo editing.
I'm glad I found this forum, just wondering why I didn't find it sooner; I probably didn't search properly.
I hope to be able to show some of my work occasionally and perhaps even offer some tips and ideas.
 
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Welcome Nes. The S1a was my first SLR, a scruffy one with a Tessar lens from a Practica. Second hand from Dixons which, if I remember correctly, cost £35. I gave it to my sister eventually when I upgraded to a Nikkormat EL.
 
ian barber said:
@nes Nice play with lines. Whats your views on Paint.Net do you like it and how does it perform with Win11
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Thanks.
I've been using several free editing programs (Paint.Net, Gimp, Krita, PhotoScape and PhotoScape X, PhotoFiltre) for about 15 years, mainly for the tricks they offer and the hundreds of plug-ins available, such as Paint.Net, which also supports all sorts of Photoshop plug-ins. In my opinion, these programs are unsuitable for serious work; a program like Paint.Net, for example, can't handle RAW files. Nevertheless, earlier this year I had two TIFF photos—80x80cm and 105x80cm—printed on Hahnemulle Rag. They had been edited exclusively with Paint.Net and showed incredible quality, and to be honest, I'm quite a perfectionist.

Since 2022/2023, the sharpening tool and the ability to resize images have been modified in Paint.Net, and unfortunately, in my opinion, this modification has been a complete failure. It's a shame, because I always used Paint.Net to quickly adjust and resize photos for use on forums, for example. It's noteworthy, of course, that a plug-in has since been released that has brought back the sharpening tool the old-fashioned way!

Such editing programs are and remain limited, but if you use them the way I do, you can get quite far. The biggest disadvantage of Paint.Net is its limited ability to process very large files. Especially when creating TIFF or PNG files, Paint.Net can literally crash at the most unexpected moments!
If you haven't saved any of your edits in between, you'll simply lose everything. This has happened to me several times over the years, and it's quite frustrating.

I'm aiming to switch to an Apple computer within six months, and then I won't be able to use Paint.Net anymore; I'll have to look for other solutions. But... I've developed such a strong aversion to using Windows 11 that I'm happy to make this sacrifice.
 
Glenn said:
Welcome Nes. The S1a was my first SLR, a scruffy one with a Tessar lens from a Practica. Second hand from Dixons which, if I remember correctly, cost £35. I gave it to my sister eventually when I upgraded to a Nikkormat EL.
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Thank you, I was incredibly proud when I was able to get that Pentax light meter that could be attached to the top of the pentaprism of this S1a.
I became fascinated by MF and LF at a young age, and I was especially fond of twin-lens reflex cameras. After two years, I traded the S1a for a Yashica Mat 124G, and a few years later, I went back to a 35mm camera, a Nikkormat Ftn, later on switched to a Nikon F.
Afterward, I got a Yashica Mat 124G again as an extra, traded it in for a Minolta Autocord 6x6 (a really fantastic camera), and traded in all my camera gear except the Nikkormat in 1975 for my first Hasselblad 500CM. This ultimately resulted in three Hasselblad bodies, which I worked with for a total of 25 years. In the 58 years I've been involved in photography, I've used a considerable number of cameras, but with a few brands and models (Hasselblad, Polaroid, Linhof, Nikon) I've had a very long relationship.
 
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