Hi folks, I'm Sam and I was just introduced to this site. Having been born in the mid-80s, I grew up shooting film in the 1990s but wasn't serious about photography until 2010 or so, and at that point I only worked with digital.
Over the past year I've become completely addicted to film photography after pulling my wife's AT-1 from high school photo class out of the attic. Although I still shoot digital (we have a 7D and a bunch of EF lenses) 90% of my photography is on film. Friends and family now seem to think of me as "the film camera guy" and have been giving me their old cameras - I've gotten an OM-1, a pair of OM10s, an EOS Rebel 2000, and a Bronica ETRSi this way, but my most prized camera is my Fuji GW690II that I picked up on eBay from a guy in Osaka. Looking at a 6x9 negative for the first time was mind blowing.
I shoot mostly black and white and develop myself - I'm partial to Acros 100, HP5+, and Delta 3200 using either D-76 or stand development in Rodinal (I finally found a 5 liter bottle to mix up this Xtol packet in, so that's next). I scan my negatives on my Epson V550 and print on the enlargers at Pittsburgh Filmmakers where I'm a member.
I feel like this is a very exciting time to be getting into analog photography. I have the opportunity to shoot every day with cameras that even just 15 years ago would have been out of reach for an amateur like me, and I've been able to pick them up for pennies on the dollar or just have them fall into my lap. I'm also a huge fan of Kodak Vision3 500T motion picture film which has only been around for a few years.
Anyway that's what I'm about, I tend to post my stuff on my Flickr page but I've been busy lately and have a backlog of rolls to develop and scan. https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/rufuskhan/
Over the past year I've become completely addicted to film photography after pulling my wife's AT-1 from high school photo class out of the attic. Although I still shoot digital (we have a 7D and a bunch of EF lenses) 90% of my photography is on film. Friends and family now seem to think of me as "the film camera guy" and have been giving me their old cameras - I've gotten an OM-1, a pair of OM10s, an EOS Rebel 2000, and a Bronica ETRSi this way, but my most prized camera is my Fuji GW690II that I picked up on eBay from a guy in Osaka. Looking at a 6x9 negative for the first time was mind blowing.
I shoot mostly black and white and develop myself - I'm partial to Acros 100, HP5+, and Delta 3200 using either D-76 or stand development in Rodinal (I finally found a 5 liter bottle to mix up this Xtol packet in, so that's next). I scan my negatives on my Epson V550 and print on the enlargers at Pittsburgh Filmmakers where I'm a member.
I feel like this is a very exciting time to be getting into analog photography. I have the opportunity to shoot every day with cameras that even just 15 years ago would have been out of reach for an amateur like me, and I've been able to pick them up for pennies on the dollar or just have them fall into my lap. I'm also a huge fan of Kodak Vision3 500T motion picture film which has only been around for a few years.
Anyway that's what I'm about, I tend to post my stuff on my Flickr page but I've been busy lately and have a backlog of rolls to develop and scan. https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/rufuskhan/
