Greetings from Orcas Island

[Leighgion]

Hello from little Orcas Island, in Washington State but historically almost part of Canada.

I'm Leigh, and I got into film photography a couple years ago during a dip in my digital activity. Had I started photography when I was younger, there'd have been only film, but I got into it late, started with digital and came to active film shooting even later.

While back into the swing of both digital and analog shooting, I've been leaning a lot more on film lately. I'm a heavy Nikon SLR man with an FE, FE2, N55 and F100 on the film side, but also shoot with an Olympus XA and Canon QL17. In medium format, I have a Mamiya 645 Super, Fuji GS645 (broken and lucky I didn't throw it into a canal in Amsterdam), shiny like-new Fuji GA645 and an Agfa Clack. While I don't have a darkroom, I use a changing bag and tank develop all my own B&W film at home, which of late makes up the majority of my film shooting.

Looking forward to hanging out here.

 

[papagene]

Leigh - hello and welcome to APUG from western Massachusetts.

gene

 

[Jeff Kubach]

Hello, Welcome to APUG! One of these days you'll get into a darkroom and you'll love it!

Jeff

 

[flatulent1]

Welcome, Leigh. Your tale of coming to film from digital is a surprisingly common one, though I shouldn't be surprised at the frequency of these stories, considering the nature of this forum. My own beginnings were in film and b&w darkroom work at UW in the mid '80s. Switched to digital about four years ago, switched back within the year.

 

[Leighgion]

Thanks, all!

Fred, I tend to consider my story a bit unique in the timing. Film is what I grew up with and knew as the photographic medium, but I just didn't really get behind the camera until my late 20's, by which time digital had come to market being a UW student of limited means, it was very attractive to spend everything up front and have a camera I could shoot as much I wanted with, so digital it was. I started up film shooting almost by accident when my interest in photography overall had waned.

I am new to these forums though, so maybe you're right and there's plenty like me.

 

[thebanana]

Welcome to APUG. I passed through Orca 3 summers ago on the ferry from Anacortes to Sidney. It looked like a beautiful place. I probably should have got off and stayed there

 

[Christopher Walrath]

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry9000/4.6.0.167 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102 UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0)

Welcome to the forum, Leigh.

 

[Valerie]

The darkroom will come...... resistance is futile. Welcome to the hive!

 

[slumry]

Greetings from Bellevue. Since it is impossible to leave the island in the summer because of the ferries, where do you get your film? Is there by chance a secret film emporium in Eastsound or do the bootleggers bring in from Canada.

 

[MattKing]

Welcome from very close to you - near the Tsawwassen ferry terminal .

I expect you'll enjoy it here.

Matt

 

[Leighgion]

It's not impossible to leave the island in the summer, Slumry. Just painful.

Our local grocery store actually has a limited film selection, and it was from there that I shot my first rolls in twenty years. However, their price and selection of course cannot satisfy the avid shooter and I had to do my usual thing and turn to mail order. Adorama, B&H, eBay and most recently Freestyle have all gotten chunks of my income in exchange for photographic supplies. My freezer is now reasonably well-stocked after I got my big order from Freestyle last week, so I should be good for a while.

I expect if I stand on the roof and yell loud enough, you might be able to hear, Matt.

 

[msage]

Welcome from another Island in Puget Sound.

Michael from Vashon

 

[Chazzy]

Welcome, Leigh, from northern Indiana.

 

[sionnac]

Welcome. I visited your island some ten - eleven years ago, the tail end of a cross-country trip from RI to the San Juans (I took little Route 2 most of the way out!) Very beautiful where you are. - Dana

 

[rpsawin]

Welcome to APUG, Leigh.

 

[glockman99]

Leigh...Welcome to APUG from Dann (glockman99), down in Aberdeen (WA).

...A Nikon user, 'eh?...So am I, with the F3HP as my all-time favorite 35mm camera (I have a pair of 'em)...The F3HP is my favorite today, but tomorrow that might change, as I'm meeting a guy in Olympia to trade my Nikon D70 DSLR (& 18-70mm Nikkor lens, etc.) for a nice, late-model Nikon F4s, with "extras". I found that I'm more of a film sort of guy, rather than a digital sort of guy.

 

[John_Nikon_F]

welcome to APUG from Duvall, WA.