About me

For over fifty years photography has played a major role in my life. When being around without a camera I often feel almost amputated. Photography is an integrated part of me, has developed into a life style, has become kind of addiction.
   That, combined with a pronounced interest in communication and web design has been the main reason for me making this site.

Contents shall focus on images and, for those being interested in nostalgia, a brief description of my over fifty years within photography.

Want to know a little bit more about me? Read it here... 

Choice of languages
The most natural would have been to write in Danish which is my mother tongue and thereby the only one I really master. However, the small target audience for a site like this in Danish made me think twice and accordingly I made it not only in English but in German as well.

Please, bear with most of failures.

Gregers Mansfeldt  
 

The 50's - my first gear

My first camera was a Voigtländer Vito BL, given to me by my late father, when I was only 12 years old.  He was a wonderful person who would at all times rather give than receive. Despite he passed away ten years ago I still miss him.
More about my first cameras and films here..

The 60's

On 28 August 1962 I went by train to Copenhagen with the purpose of buying a used Rolleiflex. Two weeks earlier my second high school year had started and the reason I know the exact date that many years after is that I that spring had fallen deeply in love with a tall, slim and most charming girl in my class. Her name was Elisabeth and that day was her 17th birthday.The bad thing was that she was in no way in love with me.
   You may read more about me and Elisabeth as well as about purchasing my first Rolleiflex, of course, here... 

The Nikon era

On one of our last 1975 summer holidays, spent at Lake Lucerne in Switzerland my Minolta gave up. Having come back home almost the first thing I did was to buy what I for several years had been wanting, a Nikon or almost a Nikon. It was a black Nikkormat FTN but with the new lens design of the 50 mm/2.0 Nikkor with which one month later and at a higher price the FT2  was launched.

More about my Nikons...

Going digital

My hobby was saved by digital photography. In 2001 I bought a small 2 million pixels Canon PowerShot A620.

More...

The lost war

 

Not long ago in a German photo magazine they blamed the Japanse for the collapse of the German photo industry due to cheap imitations of German cameras. That is not true. From the second half of the 50's the imitators didn’t speak Japanese; they were speaking German and without the Germans themselves to recognize!

More about it here

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