Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My name is Mark Bishop. I live in London and Brighton, England. Age 29. Unmarried but living with Sarah, 30. No kids. Photographic experience: Bought my first camera aged 11, member of a camera club about that time. Learnt to process & print mono at school a year later. Worked Saturdays and holidays in camera shops to make ends meet from age 14 through University (Degree in Media Studies, Sussex University, Brighton). Occupation: journalist. Have worked on UK car magazines (Autocar, Performance Car, Carweek [deceased] and now as a troubleshooter at IPC Magazines (we publish, among 70-odd titles, Amateur Photographer and Photo Technique magazines). Equipment: Nikon 35Ti for happy snaps, Leica M6 and 35 1.4 Summilux ASPH for the more thoughtful stuff. Photographic philosophy: 'The Zen of photography' - I use just the one camera, lens and film (Sensia) for all my serious photography so I can get to know them well. Also I strive for realism/super-realism - hence the 35mm lens and real-time rangefinder camera. Used to prefer real graphic photography (pushed Tri-X onto Grade 5 Agfa paper in my medium-format mono days) but concluded it was a gimmick. Favourite subjects: anything, but plenty of travel. Might consider upgrading to the rumoured M6W to enable me to use the new 24mm ASPH (I can't be doing with a separate finder) - I agree with (was it Robert Capa's) quote that "if your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough".