I have for a while now been meaning to find a way to restart having chats with photographers I have become friends with through the website. I loved making the occasional videos I used to make, but just never find the time or resource to make them. I was also somewhat limited to chatting to people who lived somewhere within a few hours drive. It recently occurred to me that I could probably get over both these limitations by just capturing a video call… so that’s exactly what I have done here.
Eric is someone I’ve been chatting with for probably a few years now. We have never met or even chatted face to face before this conversation, to date it has just been via email and mostly – though not exclusively – about recent camera purchases, thoughts about the craziness of a lot of the digital camera community… and well, frankly goading each other into buying more cameras.
Recently we have both realised that we are pretty happy with the kit we have. This seemed like quite a big deal so I thought we should have a chat about it via video. I asked Eric and he kindly agreed. Of course, in the end, we ended up chatting about a lot more.
I have titled the video ‘A Conversation with Eric Woods – The madness in the world, community, hobbies and interests as distractions… and a bit about photography and cameras’… I’ll let you be the judge as to whether or not that covers it all!
Be warned, we do touch a little on politics….
Else, I hope you enjoy what turned out to be a bit of a rambling conversation!
You can find Eric here:
https://www.35mmc.com/author/ewoodsphoto/
https://ewoodsphoto.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ewoodsphoto/
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Ibraar Hussain on VIDEO: A Conversation with Eric Woods – The madness in the world, community, hobbies and interests as distractions
Comment posted: 03/10/2025
You know, I've never had a conversation with a photographer in person before, all I've ever came across have been firmly wedged up their own arses and love blowing their own trumpet - it's the same with Musicians - so I always tend to cease any talk immediately by saying I just photograph crap with shitty cameras. So it was a pleasant surprise to listen to two cool down to earth brothers!
More of this pls
Comment posted: 03/10/2025
Comment posted: 03/10/2025
Comment posted: 03/10/2025
Comment posted: 03/10/2025
Julian Tanase on VIDEO: A Conversation with Eric Woods – The madness in the world, community, hobbies and interests as distractions
Comment posted: 03/10/2025
Great stuff, Hamish and Eric, thank you !!
Comment posted: 03/10/2025
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Comment posted: 03/10/2025
Peter Schu on VIDEO: A Conversation with Eric Woods – The madness in the world, community, hobbies and interests as distractions
Comment posted: 03/10/2025
Rollin Banderob on VIDEO: A Conversation with Eric Woods – The madness in the world, community, hobbies and interests as distractions
Comment posted: 03/10/2025
Related to the bokeh discussion - there seems to be a "separation obsession" in some circles, that I suspect is highly lens-manufacture marketing driven. I agree with you two - give me some context, and therefore more content!
However, interestingly, three of us have written here about the same physical copy of the smoothest blur lens ever, the Minolta/Sony STF - is there any other copy of a lens that has happened with on 35mmc? In chronological order:
https://www.35mmc.com/11/10/2018/sony-135-2-8-t4-5-stf-mini-review-by-rollin-banderob/
https://www.35mmc.com/25/05/2020/sony-135mm-stf-smooth-trans-focus-review/
https://www.35mmc.com/10/09/2020/sony-135mm-stf-smooth-trans-focus-a-bit-of-lens-gas-come-good-by-vincent-ferrier/
Joel Keller on VIDEO: A Conversation with Eric Woods – The madness in the world, community, hobbies and interests as distractions
Comment posted: 04/10/2025
Geoff Chaplin on VIDEO: A Conversation with Eric Woods – The madness in the world, community, hobbies and interests as distractions
Comment posted: 07/10/2025
PS: I'm looking forward to the interview with bad boy Ibraar ;-)