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Bill Carson - Biography
Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1920 and spent my business career here and there in locations from New York City to the West Coast. Spent three years in WWII with the US Army in the ETO.
Photographically, I have been taking and processing photographs since the middle 1930s and with the introduction to 35mm in 1937, I became quite serious about photography as a hobby. I bought, what was then called a "refugee:" Leica in '38 and have owned and used Leica equipment since then. I have also owned and seriously used Nikon, Zeiss Contax, Speed Graphics, Graflex, Rolleiflex, 2¼X3¼, 4X5 and up to 5X7 sheet film cameras and have had darkroom facilities to process these films. I have been a member of PSA since 1961.I have not been particularly interested in color photography because I am color blind.
I have very recently disposed of my chemically oriented darkroom and concentrated on scanning,
I have very recently [2000] disposed of my basic chemical-based equipment and become a “digital photographer.” As of 2008, I have a Nikon D-1 camera which uses my inventory of Nikkor lenses from 20mm to 500mm, an Epson Perfection Photo 3200 Flat-bed scanner, an Epson Stylus Photo 2200 Printer for photo printing, and an HP LaserJet 1022 printer for routine printing. I am very happy with this basic change in my photographic interests.
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