My life on flickr started digital but is now 100% analog, using different vintage cameras. Mainly black-and-white because it keeps life simple and I can develop it myself. My current camera's are (in no particular order):

 

Praktica B200 (SLR, DDR, bought new by me in ca. 1985)

Agfa Click II (medium format viewfinder, BRD, 1958-1970, heirloom)

Sony A300 (dslr-deceased) with some old minolta lenses

Fed-2b (35 mm rangefinder, USSR, ca. 1958)

Welta Belmira (35 mm rangefinder, DDR, 1958-1960)

Welta Weltaflex (medium format TLR, DDR, ca. 1954)

Werra 2nd series (35 mm viewfinder, DDR, 1954-1955)

Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa (model 3.3 - 35 mm SLR, DDR, 1960-1963)

Kiev 4a (35mm rangefinder, USSR, 1973)

Salyut-S (medium format SLR, USSR, 1977)

Chaika 3 (half-frame viewfinder, USSR, 1973)

Minox 35 GT (35mm viewfinder, BRD, 1981)

Venaret Junior (120 viewfinder, Netherlands, 1949)

Zenit EM (SLR, USSR, 1977)

Yashica Electro 35 GX (35mm rangefinder, Japan, 1975-1980)

Seagull 203 (medium format folder rangefinder, PRC, 1965-1977)

Minolta Maxxum 9000AF (35mm autofocus SLR, Japan, 1985-1987)

Minolta AL-F (35mm rangefinder, Japan, 1967-?)

Minolta XD 11 model D (35mm SLR, Japan, 1980)

Zorki 11 (35mm zonefocus, USSR, 1966)

 

For good measure I threw in a Leningrad-4 light meter.

 

The observant reader might notice I've got a weak spot for gear from the former communist states of eastern Europe. Their origin adds an historical note to the fun of handling these old camera's. Photographing with this camera's combines two interests I have: photographing and the former communist states of Eastern Europe.

 

I'm doing my own B&W developing using Ilford ID-11/Kodak D76/Rodinal and started printing using a Meopta Opemus III i got for free.

 

I don't know if film is in any way better than digital, and I'm sure you can get the same result using a digital camera and some post-processing, but film is so much more fun. And in the end, if you don't have fun photographing, why bother at all?

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