Good evening to you all !
So here's a quick introduction, so that you know who you're dealing with
I'm a 43 year old French guy living on the French Riviera, but born in the North-East mountains, close to Germany. I started photography when I was a teenager, first with disposable cameras, and then with my first Pentax SLR and slide film (since my mum was using slide film at that time). During a few years, I experimented with film, night photography, portrait, with different cameras (a Zenit, a Nikon EM, my Pentax MZ-50, etc...). Then I dropped photography altogether, for years. I came back to it about 6 years ago, and immersed myself in digital. I shot a few rolls of film in B&W and tried printing in the darkroom in a small club, with poor results. I guess I was so used to digital already that I didn't really have the patience to learn. The Mastin Labs presets gave me more or less the "classic" film look that I wanted.
But now, more and more, I'm drawn again to "real" film, its unpredictability, its waiting time before you see the results, its slower process, and its look. To me, it's a more rewarding experience than taking pictures on my EOS R (which does most of the work for me...). A friend of mine gave me almost everything I need to develop and even print B&W film (including an old MF enlarger), so I decided to start developping at home (if nothing else, to lower the expenses). And here I am, already asking questions
That's it. Thank you for your welcome !
Yaeli.
So here's a quick introduction, so that you know who you're dealing with
I'm a 43 year old French guy living on the French Riviera, but born in the North-East mountains, close to Germany. I started photography when I was a teenager, first with disposable cameras, and then with my first Pentax SLR and slide film (since my mum was using slide film at that time). During a few years, I experimented with film, night photography, portrait, with different cameras (a Zenit, a Nikon EM, my Pentax MZ-50, etc...). Then I dropped photography altogether, for years. I came back to it about 6 years ago, and immersed myself in digital. I shot a few rolls of film in B&W and tried printing in the darkroom in a small club, with poor results. I guess I was so used to digital already that I didn't really have the patience to learn. The Mastin Labs presets gave me more or less the "classic" film look that I wanted.
But now, more and more, I'm drawn again to "real" film, its unpredictability, its waiting time before you see the results, its slower process, and its look. To me, it's a more rewarding experience than taking pictures on my EOS R (which does most of the work for me...). A friend of mine gave me almost everything I need to develop and even print B&W film (including an old MF enlarger), so I decided to start developping at home (if nothing else, to lower the expenses). And here I am, already asking questions
That's it. Thank you for your welcome !
Yaeli.