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Originally Posted by Bimjo  Thanks guys. 
I started shooting when I was in Alabama in ammo tech school in 1975. One of my classmates was on the yearbook staff in High School and bought a Yashica TL Electro X (screw mount match needle manual everything) like he'd used for that & since we were just slightly competitive I had to have one too.
Went without a camera for 15 years (other things distracted me from a broken camera) & got back into it 5 years ago. |
Nice shot of the iris! I like the way the fine detail pops out. Using a black background and a reflector of some sort is a great way of getting flowers to really stand out. I have even used a small piece of front-surface mirror to bounce a little light from behind the flower, slightly illuminating it from the rear.
The TL Electro-X was my first SLR, also! Not actually match-needle; it had a pair of LED arrows at the bottom of the viewfinder. You adjusted the exposure until you got both arrows to go out. Their big selling point was that there was no needle on a spring to go out of calibration if you jarred the camera. It worked pretty well. Mine was stolen in a burglary in NY several years ago.