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Photos#

A few years ago I fell in love with photography - and I think everyone deserves some form of art in their life. This one became mine.

My main motivation is memory: feelings, people, moments I don’t want to blur over time. I have a Canon Selphy on my desk and a growing wall of printed favorites above it.

Gear#

Weekends used to mean flea markets, hunting for hidden gems: specially packaged 35mm film, old SLR bodies, lenses with character. Some of my favorite pieces came from those.

Bodies#

Last November I finally made the switch to mirrorless, something I’d been wanting for a long time. My old Nikon D3400 went back to my father. My Sony DSC-RX100 Mark I is currently with my brother in America on a long-term loan - I hope he’s filling it with great photos over there.

Today my main kit is a Sony a6400, paired with the 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS for wandering and the 50mm f/1.8 OSS for portraits. I recently got more into photographing people, the 50mm opened that door.

The analog side of the shelf holds a Seagull (Minolta) X-300, a Zenit ET, and a few others I’ve picked up along the way.

Lenses#

• Helios 44-3 - my favorite M42 glass. 58mm f/2, with that dreamy bokeh.
• Zenit Photosniper - 300mm. Yes, it looks like a bazooka. Yes, it’s incredible.

The Lab#

At some point my enthusiasm for analog went deep enough that I started building a darkroom at home. I developed black-and-white film, experimented with enlarging, and spent hours in the dark watching images slowly appear in the developer tray. It was magical.

Life got busier and the lab has been quiet for a while, but it exists, it works, and I don’t consider that chapter closed. More of a long pause.

Out in the World#

When I travel, I shoot everything - street, landscape, whatever’s in front of me. Back home, it’s mostly people and portraits lately, with the occasional everyday-life side quests sneaking in.

Some of my everyday captures live on Instagram: @davidfegyver

This summer I’m picking up an Osmo Pocket 4. We’ll see where that goes.