Building Triangles
I am reluctant to post images I've shot on film on Flickr because frankly they are for the most part very poorly received. That is far more to do with the quality of what I produce shooting on film than with the fickle tastes of the Flickr membership in general. But the truth is I probably shoot more on my film cameras these days than I do with my digital cameras. I just enjoy the slow and methodical process it requires and even if I come home with no more than half a roll of images, to me at least, it is always worthwhile. It feels like a different category of photography altogether, where the process of taking the image provides me with more pleasure than the image itself. I often disappear into London for a few hours with one camera, one roll of film, and one lens and then just walk and look for compositions until I jump on a train and come home again.
Anyway, this is shot on B&W film which expired 10 years ago and was taken on my newest analogue gear, a Mamiya 645 medium format camera. The lens is also a Mamiya, a 110/2.8 prime, that equates to something like 70mm in full frame equivalent terms. The camera is definitely old school, fully manual with a waist level viewfinder, no meter (you must use an external meter), and to advance the film and recock the shutter you have to crank a handle on the side of the camera. This model was produced in the mid to late 70s so it's getting on for 50 years old. It's a brute of a camera that you could drop out of an airplane and it would probably survive the fall. It was built to last and it's one of those old cameras that if you are anything like me you just look at it and admire the craftsmanship and the utter quality of the thing.
Mamiya 645 1000s
Mamiya Sekor C 110mm f/2.8
Ilford HP4 Plus 125
Building Triangles
I am reluctant to post images I've shot on film on Flickr because frankly they are for the most part very poorly received. That is far more to do with the quality of what I produce shooting on film than with the fickle tastes of the Flickr membership in general. But the truth is I probably shoot more on my film cameras these days than I do with my digital cameras. I just enjoy the slow and methodical process it requires and even if I come home with no more than half a roll of images, to me at least, it is always worthwhile. It feels like a different category of photography altogether, where the process of taking the image provides me with more pleasure than the image itself. I often disappear into London for a few hours with one camera, one roll of film, and one lens and then just walk and look for compositions until I jump on a train and come home again.
Anyway, this is shot on B&W film which expired 10 years ago and was taken on my newest analogue gear, a Mamiya 645 medium format camera. The lens is also a Mamiya, a 110/2.8 prime, that equates to something like 70mm in full frame equivalent terms. The camera is definitely old school, fully manual with a waist level viewfinder, no meter (you must use an external meter), and to advance the film and recock the shutter you have to crank a handle on the side of the camera. This model was produced in the mid to late 70s so it's getting on for 50 years old. It's a brute of a camera that you could drop out of an airplane and it would probably survive the fall. It was built to last and it's one of those old cameras that if you are anything like me you just look at it and admire the craftsmanship and the utter quality of the thing.
Mamiya 645 1000s
Mamiya Sekor C 110mm f/2.8
Ilford HP4 Plus 125