oneeyedpainter
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Hi all,
coming back to film photography after a long (20+ years) iatus. I started developing and printing B/W film when I was 9 or 10, as my grandad was an amateur photographer. Always loved the "darkroom feeling", and the many hours spent in the bathroom fiddling with a very old enlarger, while mum kept knoking on the door to ask if I was done yet....
After university, did not have much time and room for setting up a darkroom any more, the first digital cameras had come around, and film took the backseat. Have been dabbling with digital, using a Nikon D3100 for several years now, always preferring B/W but also venturing into experimenting with colour. The passion for taking pictures has always remained with me, but lately I had just got exhausted of the various thousands of pictures I had taken and never looked at again.
A couple of months ago I resurrected my old Yashica FX-3, and my late grandad's Yashica Mat 124G. Been shooting a few B/W rolls on both cameras, bought a developing tank and a changing bag, acquired a 135 scanner (still no room for a proper darkroom, yet...), and have had a blast coming back to developing my own film at home.
Very glad to see that film is living a renaissance, great to find out that some of the brands I used to refer to as a boy are still around, and kicking (I am looking at you, Ilford...
), and good to see places like photrio.com thriving with passionate fellows and great activity.
A couple of recent pictures are attached. Those are as they came out of the scanner, no post-processing except a very slight cropping.
See you soon.
OneEyedPainter
coming back to film photography after a long (20+ years) iatus. I started developing and printing B/W film when I was 9 or 10, as my grandad was an amateur photographer. Always loved the "darkroom feeling", and the many hours spent in the bathroom fiddling with a very old enlarger, while mum kept knoking on the door to ask if I was done yet....
After university, did not have much time and room for setting up a darkroom any more, the first digital cameras had come around, and film took the backseat. Have been dabbling with digital, using a Nikon D3100 for several years now, always preferring B/W but also venturing into experimenting with colour. The passion for taking pictures has always remained with me, but lately I had just got exhausted of the various thousands of pictures I had taken and never looked at again.
A couple of months ago I resurrected my old Yashica FX-3, and my late grandad's Yashica Mat 124G. Been shooting a few B/W rolls on both cameras, bought a developing tank and a changing bag, acquired a 135 scanner (still no room for a proper darkroom, yet...), and have had a blast coming back to developing my own film at home.
Very glad to see that film is living a renaissance, great to find out that some of the brands I used to refer to as a boy are still around, and kicking (I am looking at you, Ilford...
), and good to see places like photrio.com thriving with passionate fellows and great activity. A couple of recent pictures are attached. Those are as they came out of the scanner, no post-processing except a very slight cropping.
See you soon.
OneEyedPainter
