Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidTrap
Chris,
I'm curious as to why you're giving film a go again, especially when you've just got your new Sony?
DT
|
Thanks fellas.
David - my passion is black and white. It comes from working with my father for years in our home darkroom during the 70's. He taught me all the techniques available at the time to get the best out of what you had. I've always loved the subtlety of mono, and the fact that colour simply gets in the way. It is both questioned and questionable, whilst pure luminance and tone rarely are. Colour landscapes are fine if they're your thing, but for people and street scenes the old black and white film look, to me, is king.
Why do I want to get back to it? Mainly because I find the look of film so utterly appealing, and I now have the equipment again to work with it. Really, really decent film cameras are pitifully cheap nowadays, so I see myself landing a Hasselblad 500C soon, as I have the means to develop its film stock. Great camera
I also have a couple of old classics coming this week - an Olympus OM-2 and OM-4Ti. These are added to my Nikon F, Nikon EL2 and Pentax SP500. Film is cheap, so why not?