I am a recently retired broadcast engineer who is taking up photography as a hobby after using it largely only for work and genealogical research over the last 30+ years. Most of my genealogical photography going forward will undoubtedly be photographing gravestones in B&W, the preferred format for those photos (I am a member of the Association for Gravestone Studies).
I used SLRs for years (most recently a Pentax K-1000). but switched to a digital camera (a Sony Cybershot) about 15 years ago for convenience. With retirement I decided to upgrade, and recently bought a Pentax K-70 with a DA 18-270mm as my walking-around lens. I am still mastering the amazing array of settings but am making progress. I am using a variety of colored B&W filters for gravestones, because 1) I am on old guy who was used to doing that with film, and 2) although I have done a fair amount of image post-production over the years I would rather get the correct image in-camera than fix it in post. Dale H. Cook, 50+ years as an SLR photographer, Pentax K-70 w/ Pentax-DA 18-270mm lens, using colored filters for B&W gravestone photography -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
