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Hi Jeremy,
I started with a Kodak instamatic then in the mid 70s when I was about 8 years we were given Polaroids which we thought were fantastic but could never afford film or the cube flash.
Had a bit of a break and got the scuba bug and bought a Nikonos 5 35mm. I also had a sb102 strobe and a sea&sea slave strobe. This camera had early TTL metering. I ended up getting a 20mm wide angle lens and some macro extension tubes. This cost $1000s back then but had the real bug and went diving whenever i could even after work and getting back late at night.
I had this outfit for years and have got heaps of slides i took over the years. Again a real learning curve doing underwater photography with low light, water movement, subject movement, backscatter, and real time constraints but i loved it. I learned bracketing pretty quickly so at least 1 out of 3 shots was correct exposure at least. Still remember dropping the slide film off and waiting for that perfect shot and getting back a blurry fish tail.
To get colour bias you could use kodachrome for reds and fujichrome velvia for blues and green.
Had a work accident and did a fair bit of lung damage so had to give up diving.
I ended up selling the lot just before the digital age had fully set in but i do miss all the fantastic times i had especially with macro.
All those dives over the years and missing the tiny life thats going on all around until i did macro.
Cheers
Andy
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