Hi,
I live in Oslo and definitely belong to the 'hobby' or 'amateur' category. I use and enjoy analog as well as digital, but the digital part is of course irrelevant in this (APUG) context. A nice thing with film is that it's actually possible to do something without having to fire up the PC... To be able to hold and (hopefully) admire the original picture as a physical negative or positive is also very appealing.
I shoot 35mm (Olympus OM), medium format (Mamiya) and have just started to play with large format (an old Omega 4x5). Anybody noticed that analog equipment has become more affordable lately?
I'm doing mainly B&W, with a few rolls of color slides thrown in once in a while. Improving my B&W pictures is currently my number one goal. While good B&W pictures can be really striking, the not-so-good ones are often equally boring. I don't like boring pictures, but still make way too many of them. Magic formulas wanted
Contact printing LF negatives seems like a lot of fun, and is on top of my have-to-try-it list. Although 4x5 may be a little small for this purpose, it's a place to start (don't know if I like the implication of that statement... I have heard rumours of a strange phenomenon called '8x10' or something like that; probably a disease of some sort).
Knut
I live in Oslo and definitely belong to the 'hobby' or 'amateur' category. I use and enjoy analog as well as digital, but the digital part is of course irrelevant in this (APUG) context. A nice thing with film is that it's actually possible to do something without having to fire up the PC... To be able to hold and (hopefully) admire the original picture as a physical negative or positive is also very appealing.
I shoot 35mm (Olympus OM), medium format (Mamiya) and have just started to play with large format (an old Omega 4x5). Anybody noticed that analog equipment has become more affordable lately?
I'm doing mainly B&W, with a few rolls of color slides thrown in once in a while. Improving my B&W pictures is currently my number one goal. While good B&W pictures can be really striking, the not-so-good ones are often equally boring. I don't like boring pictures, but still make way too many of them. Magic formulas wanted
Contact printing LF negatives seems like a lot of fun, and is on top of my have-to-try-it list. Although 4x5 may be a little small for this purpose, it's a place to start (don't know if I like the implication of that statement... I have heard rumours of a strange phenomenon called '8x10' or something like that; probably a disease of some sort).
Knut
