I'm back!

Perry Way · Feb 23, 2023

It's been over a decade.. But I'm back. Just thought I would say hello to see who's paying attention here.

Seems like all my old friends are gone.

One in particular: John Nanian. Anyone remember him? Curious what's going on with him. His account is removed here so I have no way of knowing.

So I left analog, but for a valid reason. Now I'm kind of dipping my toes back in to see how far I wonder.

I'll be hiking a long 3100 mile hike in 2024. Want to bring one film camera with me.

At the moment I'm strongly considering a Reality So Simple (RSS) 6x9 pinhole camera, weight, durability, and well... pinhole rocks!

Andrew O'Neill · Feb 23, 2023

Welcome back! John still pokes around here, and over at the LFPF.

Sirius Glass · Feb 23, 2023

Welcome back to ~~APUG~~ Photrio!!

aparat · Feb 23, 2023

Perry Way said:
It's been over a decade.. But I'm back. Just thought I would say hello to see who's paying attention here.

Seems like all my old friends are gone.

One in particular: John Nanian. Anyone remember him? Curious what's going on with him. His account is removed here so I have no way of knowing.

So I left analog, but for a valid reason. Now I'm kind of dipping my toes back in to see how far I wonder.

I'll be hiking a long 3100 mile hike in 2024. Want to bring one film camera with me.

At the moment I'm strongly considering a Reality So Simple (RSS) 6x9 pinhole camera, weight, durability, and well... pinhole rocks!

Welcome back! I was also gone for a few years, not trying to learn the craft again. Good luck!

Perry Way · Feb 23, 2023

Andrew O'Neill said:
Welcome back! John still pokes around here, and over at the LFPF.

Oh thank you very much. His account is no longer active here. Maybe I still have an account there? What is the site url again? LargeFormat...? If you see him before me can you tell him Perry wanted to say hello again.

Perry Way · Feb 23, 2023

Sirius Glass said:
Welcome back to ~~APUG~~ Photrio!!

Thanks. heheh, yeah I can't quite get APUG out of my mind. I hope that doesn't annoy anyone but .. I guess I'm old school.

Perry Way · Feb 23, 2023

aparat said:
Welcome back! I was also gone for a few years, not trying to learn the craft again. Good luck!

I don't think I'll be doing any darkroom work from here on out unless I strike it rich and have abundant time to explore my heart's content which is a deep chasm. But I'm in an apartment and it's difficult to make any room for any kind of processing here. I've got a food production setup taking up most of my kitchen and living room and need every square inch. And rent is expensive around here (coastal California). But if I were rich tell you what, I'd have a huge studio that could be used as one giant darkroom if need be, and I'd have the right equipment to produce wall size gum bichromates. That I think is the last thing for me to explore that was on my bucket list back in the day. But I have limited time now and limited money due to my goal for 2024 trek.

That said, I don't need to learn the craft again if I'm only shooting. So a shooter I'll be. Send exposed film to lab. Get scans. Share them on my trip as the trip progresses. I plan to be documenting the trip with pinhole stills, and GoPro video. My employer back home here might be partnering with me and be my support behind the scenes, processing my footage and making daily videos for YouTube. That's my general plan on this analog trip again.

Funny thing is it's the whole wanting to revive my Dad's old camera for one photo scene with my brother in memorial of my first trekking trip. Once I cracked open that door, the place just flooded quickly and now I'm here swimming around with all this analog desire again. I tell you it's a love that I forced myself to extinguish. It was for a good reason and I'd do it all over again. But boy, I sure missed this. I never get excited about digital...... never.

aparat · Feb 23, 2023

Perry Way said:
I don't think I'll be doing any darkroom work from here on out unless I strike it rich and have abundant time to explore my heart's content which is a deep chasm. But I'm in an apartment and it's difficult to make any room for any kind of processing here. I've got a food production setup taking up most of my kitchen and living room and need every square inch. And rent is expensive around here (coastal California). But if I were rich tell you what, I'd have a huge studio that could be used as one giant darkroom if need be, and I'd have the right equipment to produce wall size gum bichromates. That I think is the last thing for me to explore that was on my bucket list back in the day. But I have limited time now and limited money due to my goal for 2024 trek.

That said, I don't need to learn the craft again if I'm only shooting. So a shooter I'll be. Send exposed film to lab. Get scans. Share them on my trip as the trip progresses. I plan to be documenting the trip with pinhole stills, and GoPro video. My employer back home here might be partnering with me and be my support behind the scenes, processing my footage and making daily videos for YouTube. That's my general plan on this analog trip again.

Funny thing is it's the whole wanting to revive my Dad's old camera for one photo scene with my brother in memorial of my first trekking trip. Once I cracked open that door, the place just flooded quickly and now I'm here swimming around with all this analog desire again. I tell you it's a love that I forced myself to extinguish. It was for a good reason and I'd do it all over again. But boy, I sure missed this. I never get excited about digital...... never.

I can tell you're excited! That's gotta feel great. I know it does for me. You never know, maybe you'll find a way to do some darkroom stuff. My space is very small, too, but I kind of made it work for me. There might be public or college darkrooms in your area. Another thing that might be possible for you is alternative printing techniques, which do not require a complex darkroom setup. It might be something worth exploring. Pinhole photography might be ideal for making such prints, and having a series on YouTube documenting it would be fascinating to watch.

Having said that, one of the biggest changes I've noticed since I got back, is the hybrid workflow. These days, people are using their digital cameras more and more often to digitize film, and digital processing seems a lot more accepted here at Photrio than I remember from the Apug days. I am digitizing film with my phone, and I am quite happy with the results. I treat them as rough proofs that I can then use to pick the pictures I want to print.

Alex Benjamin · Feb 23, 2023

Perry Way said:
One in particular: John Nanian. Anyone remember him? Curious what's going on with him.

John posts some great stuff on his Instagram page.

Perry Way · Feb 23, 2023

Alex Benjamin said:
John posts some great stuff on his Instagram page.

Excellent, what is his username? Do you know?

Perry Way · Feb 23, 2023

Perry Way said:
Excellent, what is his username? Do you know?

I found it. jnanian just like it was here on APUG

Eric Rose · Feb 23, 2023

Welcome back. I too was gone for quite some time.

I'm back!

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