Just seeing the “analogue” colour saturation on that brought back memories of my “old skool” photo days. Sadly all my 35mm kit is in storage in my old house in Reading (a Soviet SLR cameras and a couple of Olympus compacts) and many of my pics/negatives haven’t been catalogued or scanned..
I do like conventional film (I first became interested in photography way before digital cameras) but found cost of processing and security worries to be an issue (particularly when photographing squats/free parties). That said I did have a friend who worked in a processing lab so for more sensitive stuff he would always get my films developed there.
I have wanted to do my own darkroom work but it involves finding the time/space and using a fair few nasty chemicals, although its dawned on me that my current bathroom is easily converted as the window is a shape that is really easy to black out..(but can you still get all that stuff from Jessops in this day and age anyway?)
OTOH I do find with digital that not having to worry about the cost of film and processing means the photos I have taken keep improving as I am more prepared to take sufficient shots to get the best one – especially when photographing animals/nature.
Also in todays paranoid world a big SLR (film or conventional) spells out “press/cops forward intelligence team” whilst a smaller camera looks less obtrusive. I tend to go for the compacts with better lenses the kind a bit like the 35mm compact you used to get in the 1980s but digital.
This comment from Tom (on his flickr) after photographing some chavs did make me crease up though
Quote:
They didn’t quite understand that they couldn’t see the photo right away because it wasn’t digital… i made a swift retreat.
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