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Day 27 – Film

Deb — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:38:33 +0000

This past Christmas I had asked for a Holga camera. Although we have a few other film cameras in our collection I wanted to try something a bit different. So I put it on my list and hoped that Santa would ask his elves to check out eBay for me. Well, Santa didn’t but I did receive a fantastic gift from my Dad: one of his old cameras I remember learning on them and then spending hours in our basement darkroom developing the prints. It is really one of my favourite childhood memories. So when he nonchalantly produced his Pentax Asahi MX and said that I could have it if I wanted it, I was really touched by his gift.

I started out with some colour film (Kodak 400 ISO) just to practice and to figure out the nuances of the camera. At first I found it a bit tricky to feel the f-stops on the old lens, but I quickly taught myself to just slow down and relax. After I did that everything just, ummm.. clicked I know that you have probably seen enough cat photos in the past 30 days or so, but here are a few more to add to that collection I promise it will be more interesting the next time I post some film shots as there are photos of people on the next roll to be developed.

Other than a less-than-stellar scanning job, the colours are close to what the prints show and I have not adjusted any exposures or done any sharpening. These are 99.9% SOOC (straight out of the camera).

I love this one because of the dust in the lens and the flare

I look forward to finishing off the current roll of film in my camera, and if there is something really special in there I will be more than happy to share

Is Film Still King?

Deb — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:13:07 +0000

Back when I got married, 5 and a half years ago, film was still king of the photography world. All our photos were done with film. I still have the rather large proof sheets. Back then, digital photography was still quite young. In fact, to this day compared to film, digital is still young. Since then, however, a LOT has changed. Megapixel count has gone really high, image sensors have become a lot more sensitive and accurate, and the cameras are getting fancier and fancier.

A few months ago, Channel 5 (UK I believe) ran a segment comparing today’s digital camera technology to film cameras on their show “The Gadget Show”. It’s pretty cool what they did, actually.

Check it out

As you can see, no longer is film wearing the crown.

One of my favourites…

Deb — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:37:03 +0000

Now this photo is by no means recent (MANY years old, my Dad would know for sure), and it’s certainly not a digital image (taken with my Dad’s old film camera and then scanned it) but it is one of my favourites.Â This is a photo of my Great Uncle Will on one of his visits from England.Â What I like most about this image is what I learned from it: how to relax and be patient, and how to become invisible to the subject.