About...

My name is Gianpaolo Bottin, I am a software engineer, I mostly use Visual C++ to develop software for industrial automation, monitoring and for embedded systems.
Photography is my favourite hobby. I like to travel and take pictures of interesting things, particularly landscapes.  

Take a look at my photos in the Pentax Photo Gallery !

Technical notes: I started to shoot photos with a Pentax K1000 then I had several Pentax and Ricoh slr cameras. Lenses I used in the past: Pentax 20 F4, 28 F2.8, 35 F2.8, 50 F1.7, 50 F2.8 macro, 135 F3.5, 200 F4, 28-70 F4 AF. Sigma 105 F2.8 macro AF, 70-300 F4-5.6 AF. Since I got the Pentax *ist DS I mostly use these lenses: Pentax 12-24 F4 AF, 18-55 F3.5-5.6 AF, 55-300 F4-5.8 AF. Sigma 17-70 F2.8-4.5 AF, 105 F2.8 macro 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.

 

 

 

 

2005, 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.

 

 

2009, Pentax K20D and Sigma 17-70 F2.8-4.5 are the last update to my photographic equipment. The K20D is really a huge improvement over the *ist DS, in particular when shooting directly in jpeg.

Sigma 17-70 F2.8-4.5 is nice lens, sharp, with a good contrast. Its price/performance it's hard to beat.

 

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