I just found a cd of photos i had developed. I took these with the Pentax I bought in Australia. The pictures aren’t all wonderful, the quality isn’t perfect (some of the film I bought was expired…) but the element of surprise is worth all of the negative aspects of film cameras! I like that looking at my strip of film is like putting a puzzle together, trying to remember how each event follow one another…Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate digital cameras and the way they let me take photos everyday so easily, but there’s something so special about film cameras!
Here are some photos from one single 27-exposure film I used last year, in chronological order:
A camel and the cappadocce in Turkey
Some kids playing in front of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul Turkey,
Pregnant Gitane, Nomade’s mom, taking a rest
The Wombat safely parked in Luxembourg
Jonathan, his father and his brother chopping wood in Ste-Émilie-de-l’Énergie in Québec
Jonathan fitting in with the locals beside the Seine in Paris.
I was so happy to see how many things one strip of film can capture! The digital version of these events includes 10,000 pictures of nearly the same thing, captured at slightly different angles or with different camera settings, just in case, for some reason, I would happen to need dozens of different versions of the same picture. The luxury of digital cameras has turned me a little bit ridiculous.
I love the suspense of film cameras. If someone blinked, if the lighting wasn’t right, if you didn’t load your film properly, if you look like a wank or if your shot turns out blurry, it’s just something you have to live with and accept. No re-shoots, no thousands of pictures to look through, no worries.
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