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Part of the fun in compiling this website is to recall my photographic experiences over many decades. This page is about the era of 35mm film photography. I reckon that is about 1960 to 1990, during which time my film of choice was Kodak Ektachrome. I went that way and shunned Kodachrome because I couldn't conceive of having so many negatives printed and then stored in dusty, musty photo albums. Somehow, it felt preferable to invest in a slide projector and accumulate countless thousands of slides in circular carousels (which must have taken up as much room as the rejected albums!).
I can't remember when my photography switched from film to digital, but I can recall waiting until decent resolutions were available in consumer cameras. I used a digital camera to record business activities in the 1990's. My last personal film based camera was a Minolta SLR 35mm which I must have bought in Singapore in the 1970's, but I have a long prior history of older, simpler, larger format cameras dating back to a childhood Kodak Box Brownie. Images from those earlier cameras, all black & white, are lost to time, but somehow I decided to use Ektachrome on 35mm cameras and thus I collected, starting in the early 1960's, and kept, a huge number of 35mm slides. I know these numbered in the thousands, because I kept them in carousels which held 120 each, and I had about 30 of them, stacked neatly in a large bookcase!
For years, I processed my own black & white film, in a laundry which I managed to light-seal fairly effectively. I didn't want to pay for a decent enlarger, so I built my own from parts. Moving on to colour and Ektachrome, I even processed those positives at home using rather expensive kits from Kodak, but in the end I gave that up as too much trouble, and thereafter relied on professionals to do that job.
