About...

My name is Gianpaolo Bottin. I am 43 years old and I am living in Turin, Italy. 

I am a software engineer, I mostly use Visual C++ to develop software for industrial automation, monitoring. Lately I started to depevelop software for embedded systems. Here is web site of my company.
Photography is my favourite hobby. I like to travel and take pictures of interesting things, particularly landscapes.  

Technical notes: I started to shoot photos with a Pentax K1000 then I had several Pentax and Ricoh slr cameras. Pentax lenses: 20 F4, 28 F2.8, 35 F2.8, 50 F1.7, 50 F2.8 macro, 135 F3.5, 200 F4, and 28-70 F4 AF, 18-55 F3.5-5.6 AF. Sigma lenses: 105 F2.8 macro AF, and 70-300 F4-5.6 AF. Zenitar fish-eye 16 F2.8
For macrophotography I used a bellows with a dedicated lens (a Pentax 100mm bellows), two or three flashes. On film days I also used a special viewfinder for my Pentax LX. Most of the photos taken on film were shot with Fuji slide films and scanned with a Nikon Coolscan III (LS30) film scanner.

This is the last film camera I used: Pentax MZ-3.

It was a nice light camera, but for macrophotography works Pentax LX was much better.

 

 

On November 2000 I switched to digital and bought a Nikon Coolpix 990, since then and for 2 years most of my pictures has been shot with this Coolpix.

 

 

 

On December 2002 I bought a Minolta DiMage 7i, it's a very good camera that gives better images  than Coolpix 990.

 

 

 

 

On December 2005 I went back to Pentax, I bought a Pentax *ist DS !! I am very happy with this d-slr, I can use all my old lenses, flashes and accessories moreover it gives wonderful images. I also added to my lenses collection the Pentax zoom 18-55 F3.5-5.6 and the Zenitar fish-eye 16 F2.8.

 

 

 

In the exif info of the pictures in the photo gallery you can see which camera I used for that image.