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Good day!
(sort of) new user here. I was born in the 1980's, and so was probably one of the last generations to learn photography on film. First experience was on a Fuji disposable camera, aged about 6, at a party. I didn't take many pictures of the people at the party, but plenty of all the interesting things in the garden! Few years later as a teenager, I was left a Nikon F-301 by my step grandfather - which was what I spent most of my teenage years using - to varying degrees of success. Much of the evidence of this ended up on my Dead Link Removed
At some point I ended up using a Sony Cybershot P-9 and jumping into the world of digital. For quite a long time, I didn't look back.
I didn't go on to study photography - I studied electronics at university and now I'm a broadcast engineer.
After leaving uni, and getting stuck into my new career, I got a Canon DSLR. Only with the kit lens, mind you. After considering the various options for new lenses for that, I considered - why not just use my F-301? It'd be interesting to get it back out again if nothing else.
Unfortunately at some point the body had become knackered at some stage, taking a heavy knock and disloding the mirror from the mount. It would be an expensive repair. So I had a look on eBay for a new body. £35! In due course, a couple of days later I met the seller outside Marylebone station in London and took delivery of the goods, as one does (this must have looked very strange to an outside observer). This seems like a pretty good bargain - I thought - I wonder what sort of quality I can get out of this, and how I could get some film developed.
Several days of googling and discovering the now burgeoning world of analogue photography, and quite amazed by the fact there were still services available for developing film, and that developing it at home isn't actually all that hard, and the hybrid analogue/digital workflow that is common these days. And that medium format is actually pretty affordable now! That's particularly exciting!
After shooting those first few rolls of film - I noticed how much I enjoyed the slower and more deliberate approach to taking a photograph, rather than the tweaking and chimping cycle that goes on when I've been doing digital. I did stare at the back of my camera after taking a shot quite a few times before I remembered what it was like. I tried a few different labs - worked out what was the best value. Learnt how to develop film myself - saves me money and means I can shoot more.
I'm a member of the photography club at work, and am looking to join Photofusion in Brixton very soon. I'm hoping to exhibit my work at some point soon - I feel like that's what I need to motivate me to improve my skills.
Some of my more recent stuff is on my new Flickr (don't get me started about why I have a new one...), and my Instagram is pretty much exclusively film these days. I've also got a Tumblr where I'm overly critical of pictures I've taken.
So that's me! Hi
Here's a picture of my cat on Tri-X
Good day!
(sort of) new user here. I was born in the 1980's, and so was probably one of the last generations to learn photography on film. First experience was on a Fuji disposable camera, aged about 6, at a party. I didn't take many pictures of the people at the party, but plenty of all the interesting things in the garden! Few years later as a teenager, I was left a Nikon F-301 by my step grandfather - which was what I spent most of my teenage years using - to varying degrees of success. Much of the evidence of this ended up on my Dead Link Removed
At some point I ended up using a Sony Cybershot P-9 and jumping into the world of digital. For quite a long time, I didn't look back.
I didn't go on to study photography - I studied electronics at university and now I'm a broadcast engineer.
After leaving uni, and getting stuck into my new career, I got a Canon DSLR. Only with the kit lens, mind you. After considering the various options for new lenses for that, I considered - why not just use my F-301? It'd be interesting to get it back out again if nothing else.
Unfortunately at some point the body had become knackered at some stage, taking a heavy knock and disloding the mirror from the mount. It would be an expensive repair. So I had a look on eBay for a new body. £35! In due course, a couple of days later I met the seller outside Marylebone station in London and took delivery of the goods, as one does (this must have looked very strange to an outside observer). This seems like a pretty good bargain - I thought - I wonder what sort of quality I can get out of this, and how I could get some film developed.
Several days of googling and discovering the now burgeoning world of analogue photography, and quite amazed by the fact there were still services available for developing film, and that developing it at home isn't actually all that hard, and the hybrid analogue/digital workflow that is common these days. And that medium format is actually pretty affordable now! That's particularly exciting!
After shooting those first few rolls of film - I noticed how much I enjoyed the slower and more deliberate approach to taking a photograph, rather than the tweaking and chimping cycle that goes on when I've been doing digital. I did stare at the back of my camera after taking a shot quite a few times before I remembered what it was like. I tried a few different labs - worked out what was the best value. Learnt how to develop film myself - saves me money and means I can shoot more.
I'm a member of the photography club at work, and am looking to join Photofusion in Brixton very soon. I'm hoping to exhibit my work at some point soon - I feel like that's what I need to motivate me to improve my skills.
Some of my more recent stuff is on my new Flickr (don't get me started about why I have a new one...), and my Instagram is pretty much exclusively film these days. I've also got a Tumblr where I'm overly critical of pictures I've taken.
So that's me! Hi
Here's a picture of my cat on Tri-X
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