- Real Name
- Larry Zasitko
- Device
- iPad (Generic)
Hi, I am Larry. Live in Regina with my wonderfully wife of 37 years, three great kids (all thankfully do not live with us anymore). Both my wife and I are semi-retired so we can sometimes sit back and enjoy thing more. I have many interests including reading, cars and photography.
My journey in photography started with my father who gave me a slr when I was 11 or 12. He took a lot of pictures and for a few years has a small darkroom. Over the years I kept getting better and better slr's and set up my own darkroom. I was for a number of years in the Sport Car Club (had, well still have, a 1964 Austin Mini that got rebuilt into a Cooper S) raced a bit and took thousands of pictures, at that time mostly B+W that I developed and printed. I took wedding pictures for a number of years.
I got offered a 645 and at the time didn't have the money to buy it even though it was what I thought was a great deal. A few years later I came across a Mamiya 645 and three lens for a decent price so I bought it. Used that daily for a lot of years until the local place that developed and printed jacked the prices so high that it became cheaper to save the rolls and once I had 10 or so send them off to Toronto. At that time I didn't have space for a darkroom, with 3 teens in the house.
Once digital cameras started showing up I bought one and over the years and still today I have a decent little one around. I sold the Mamiya (still regret that a bit) but I still have some of my favourite 35mm cameras, a couple of Contax slr's, a Contax G2 package with all the lens and a couple Rollei 35's.
I couple of years ago I bought an iPad 2 and took some pictures with it but the lens in it was not really good has been alright for casual pictures. My wife currently has an iPhone 3GS that she uses and in the next few months is going to get a new iPhone and I bought an iPad 3 last June. I use it for pictures fairly often, had set it and the iPad 3 up and videoed my wife's sisters wedding. Since then I find I use it quite a bit for pictures and have been pretty happy with the quality.
Lately my interests have turned more and more to HDR and I have found some apps, bought some on sale etc. but have not yet had a lot of time to get out (well it being -30 or so doesn't help) but now that the weather is improving. I bought both 645 Pro and PureShot (thanks to Michael Hardaker for these great apps) and am playing with them. I will continue with the iPad and am looking forward to getting the better iPhone. I find with the current phone and both iPad's that I am using the digital cameras less, mostly because both my wife and I always have the iPhone and generally both iPad's along. We both really like being able to take a picture and looking at them right away on the iPad screens, where as the digital has a 3" screen and I have to download the pictures to the desktop then put them on the iPad.
When I was looking for more info on 645 Pro I found this site and AppWhisperer and a couple others, so here I am....
If you have bothered to read this far my hats off to you, I can be a bit wordy from time to time...
Larry Zasitko
My journey in photography started with my father who gave me a slr when I was 11 or 12. He took a lot of pictures and for a few years has a small darkroom. Over the years I kept getting better and better slr's and set up my own darkroom. I was for a number of years in the Sport Car Club (had, well still have, a 1964 Austin Mini that got rebuilt into a Cooper S) raced a bit and took thousands of pictures, at that time mostly B+W that I developed and printed. I took wedding pictures for a number of years.
I got offered a 645 and at the time didn't have the money to buy it even though it was what I thought was a great deal. A few years later I came across a Mamiya 645 and three lens for a decent price so I bought it. Used that daily for a lot of years until the local place that developed and printed jacked the prices so high that it became cheaper to save the rolls and once I had 10 or so send them off to Toronto. At that time I didn't have space for a darkroom, with 3 teens in the house.
Once digital cameras started showing up I bought one and over the years and still today I have a decent little one around. I sold the Mamiya (still regret that a bit) but I still have some of my favourite 35mm cameras, a couple of Contax slr's, a Contax G2 package with all the lens and a couple Rollei 35's.
I couple of years ago I bought an iPad 2 and took some pictures with it but the lens in it was not really good has been alright for casual pictures. My wife currently has an iPhone 3GS that she uses and in the next few months is going to get a new iPhone and I bought an iPad 3 last June. I use it for pictures fairly often, had set it and the iPad 3 up and videoed my wife's sisters wedding. Since then I find I use it quite a bit for pictures and have been pretty happy with the quality.
Lately my interests have turned more and more to HDR and I have found some apps, bought some on sale etc. but have not yet had a lot of time to get out (well it being -30 or so doesn't help) but now that the weather is improving. I bought both 645 Pro and PureShot (thanks to Michael Hardaker for these great apps) and am playing with them. I will continue with the iPad and am looking forward to getting the better iPhone. I find with the current phone and both iPad's that I am using the digital cameras less, mostly because both my wife and I always have the iPhone and generally both iPad's along. We both really like being able to take a picture and looking at them right away on the iPad screens, where as the digital has a 3" screen and I have to download the pictures to the desktop then put them on the iPad.
When I was looking for more info on 645 Pro I found this site and AppWhisperer and a couple others, so here I am....
If you have bothered to read this far my hats off to you, I can be a bit wordy from time to time...
Larry Zasitko
a very warm welcome too 
