J J Gainsford

My name is J Gainsford, I am 25 years old and I currently live back in Bedfordshire, England. Photography has been a major passion of mine and I have always had a 'natural eye' since I was very young.



My real interest in photography only really started when I found an old Pentax Ashi Spotmatic II SLR camera in my grandfathers house and I have taken it on from there. I then undertook a small night course to help me understand the camera (things like loading film was a great challenge on those cameras!). After a while working with the Pentax, I then decided to upgrade to a more modern Canon EOS 500N, where automatic metering and focusing seemed fantastic in comparison to the Pentax.

My first digital camera was bought for me before I went to university and was a Nikon Coolpix 3100. The initial version had "bright" pixel problem and this was fixed. However I found the optics and quality were absolutely fantastic in comparison to the Canon! Pictures were far better than any other digital compact that I compared with at this time. Unfortunately battery life was a problem and I now have passed this great camera onto my parents, along with some high energy, rechargable batteries!

I currently have some weddings to attend to both this year and possibly next year. I hope I can produce some lovely pictures for these people.

Current equipement is as such:

• Nikon D70s
• Nikon D200
• Nikkor 18-70mm DX Zoom
• Sigma 50mm Prime Macro Lens
• Nikkor 70-200mm VR AFS
• Nikon Speedlight SB800
• Sandisk Ultra II memory cards
• Hoya Circ. Polariser
• Western Digital 250gb Hard Drive
• Nikon Picture Project
• Adobe Photoshop CS3



This is by far the best photographic equipment I have owned in terms of quality and use, the optics are fantastic and would highly reccommend Nikon to others.