Technical Support © GRAY © LEVETT My life in cameras In association with Grays of Westminster founder Gray Levett reveals the cameras that have shaped his photographic life The Video features Nikon F3 Mode Gray Levett I started to shoot some of the a range of Gray is the founder 1986musicians I was managing while at of Grays of the same time working on establishing Grays of Westminster in Westminster as exclusively Nikon. The F3 was a video tips and London, one of the tough manual-focus camera that had a very tutorials to most famous Nikon reliable metering system and was a joy to use. It camera shops in precipitated my growing interest in rock music, help you learn the world. The shop, photography in general and Nikon in particular. which recently film-making celebrated its 30th anniversary, has techniques won numerous awards and © KONSTANTIN KOCHKIN KONSTANTIN © distinctions, and is 1959 News Latest the first camera shop in the world to be granted announcements from its own coat of arms. As well as being a Nikon the video world authority, Gray is a talented and highly experienced photographer in his own right. www.graysofwestminster.co.uk 1967 Nikon D810 Kodak Brownie 127 The Nikon D810 was a game The Kodak Brownie 127 was changer for many photographers my first camera. I saw an 2014 1959 and an exceptional camera. It is a 35mm advertisement for it in the Eagle comic and full-frame (FX-format) camera that has a knew I had to have one. I was over the moon CMOS sensor with 36.3 million pixels – the when my parents got highest resolution currently available in a DSLR one for me for my in the Nikon range. With Reviews Latest video birthday. This no optical kit to get the best out of started my low-pass filter your film-making fascination for covering the photography, sensor, the which has D810 should never resolve an diminished. exceptional level of Nikon F 1986 detail. I got my Nikon F after seeing Michelangelo Antonioni’s movie 1967 Blow-up, in which a fashion photographer, Nikon D500 played by David Hemmings, thinks he may have We waited so long for a photographed a murder. In it he shoots with a 2016replacement for the D300S that Tuition Expert Nikon F. It also included a sequence with The we were beginning to think it would never technique to get the best Yardbirds, featuring Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. happen – then Nikon announced the D500. out of your kit I also have my well-used F-36 motor drive in The D500 is the first professional-quality DX perfect working camera since the D300S of 2009. I think it has order. I would been worth the wait for the technology to never sell it! progress. Advance orders for the D500 have been huge, actually 2014 matching the demand for the Nikon D5. 2016 www.thevideomode.com www.facebook.com/thevideomode @thevideomode subscribe 0330 333 1113 I www.amateurphotographer.co.uk I 20 August 2016 59 .