aking old film cameras on vacation, deciding to take images only with those can be a little risky. Specially when you never shot with a camera before. A great friend of mine, came all the way from New York, and brought me a Minolta X570,
We all need a break
Fading Light: The Film Adventures
Chasing Bison with an old Russian
It's funny, how I almost cured myself of digital GAS, and how quickly I fell for the analogue GAS. It's really easy to forget about actual photography, when scouring eBay for old cameras. The amount of old film cameras is just staggering. The prices are decent for the most part, although so old cameras fall into the "collectible" or "famous" category, which drives their prices through the roof. I try to keep to the cheap side.
Lonely Alberta Prairies
Looking for spring with Kodak Ektar
y decision to shoot everything with old film cameras this year, still makes my wife shake her head. I've been asked by friends, why do I want to create images strictly on film. The interesting thing is, I don't know. Is it because I'm tired of perfect images coming out of digital cameras? Or maybe it's the need to slow down, learn patience and enjoy the whole manual process of creating an image.
Alberta Country on Celuloid
Winter adventures on film
Adventures of Film Photography
Winter on film
When things don't go as planned and Fuji comes to the rescue.
On the onset of this little write up, just want to warn that the images attached to this post are not really safe for work :)
Had a great opportunity to shoot with Kate again. She's an amazing model to work with. Her understanding of poses, and light is second to none. We planned an outside setting for the shoot, but it being autumn in Alberta, the weather did not cooperate. That's one thing that went wrong.
Beauty on celluloid
I was invited the other day for a quick, impromptu photo session. Didn't have much time to think what I should take, so I took most of my gear. Better be safe (and tired) than sorry, I guess. For the fun of it, I packed my Pentax film camera with me as well. We didn't have a lot of time to shoot, since the sun was going down, but we made the most of it. The digital shots need to be processed still, but I managed to develop the film yesterday. Enjoy!
Looking for spring in analogue color.
Continuing our little Spring finding trip, I finished a roll of b&w film, and decided to try things in color. Enjoy.
Looking for spring in analogue b&w.
We are finally enjoying nice warm weather. A couple weeks back, I took the kids, and my little film camera to look for spring. It was a wonderful sunny warm day, and we had a blast. Here are some analogue signs of spring in black and white. Enjoy.
Landscape in Film
I just had to try out the 40 year old film camera, on a little drive I took over the weekend. A good friend of mine, a specialist in photographing pets, agreed to go for a little drive in the country, just exploring. We took the backroads, and after a while, because I was paying more attention to the scenery, then to where I was going... I got lost. I mean lost, completely utterly lost. To make matters worse, it was a grey, overcast day, and no sun peeking through at all. Didn't have a clue if I was driving north, south, west or east. Luckily my iPhone found the way home. Here are some shots taken with the film camera. Again almost no editing, just a little crop here and there. Enjoy.
New year and old gear
So just in time for new year resolutions, that no one ever keeps, I decided to go back in time. A long way back in time. I'm talking about 15 years at least. This is how long I had this Russian relic, this wonder of Russian technology and optics, this marvel of weight and noise. I'm talking about the Kiev 60.
I have received this camera as a gift, and to my shame never really used it. At that time I was using a normal 35mm Minolta SLR, and found I had little use for the big Kiev. It's completely manual. It has a TTL light meter, but I can't find replacement batteries for it, so right now it's just a view finder. It is horribly heavy, at least twice as heavy as my Canon 5D. The shutter makes this horrific, yet strangely satisfying "clunk", that would wake the dead. It has a 80mm f2.8 lens on it, and other little bits and pieces that came with it in a box.
It's been sitting on a shelf, sad and neglected. So I gave it a bit of cleaning, hunted down some film for it, and actually shot a few frames with it already. So one might say that the first pictures of the new year were done on an old Russian tank. I do realize that coming from an instant gratification of digital camera, waiting for the film to be developed will be a form of masochism, but I think I can handle it for a few rolls of film I bought. I just have to remember to write notes while taking pictures (exposure, shutter, aperture etc.).... what did I get myself into???