Film and Analogue Camera Madness!

So… What’s so attractive about taking pictures with film and analogue cameras older than myself? nothing much except it’s a LEGENDARY, AWESOME, and FUN-FILLED EXPERIENCE! Imagine yourself living 3 decades ago… hippies! haha! :D oops! post-tree-loving era na pala yun!. well anyway, imagine that you were holding an analogue camera with a 12-shot roll of film (of course, you got to be precise on the ASA)… first things comes to mind is what? how am I going to adjust aperture? shutter speed? focusing? all that is manually adjusted! thinking about it is already time consuming…

How about: are my pictures gonna turn out okay???? will it be under/over exposed? Light metering is another story… most 20/30-year old cameras don’t have light meters yet. it was sold separately. How would you check your photos on a camera without a preview LCD?—come to think of it, it is probably one of the reasons why cameras wasn’t a staple for everyone before (compared to now, where even my 4-year old swimmers knows how to take photographs with the pocket size ixuses).

It just amazes me that some photographers before have very limited or non-existent post processing resources but still takes very good if not excellent photographs. IT’S A LOT OF HARD WORK AND PRACTICE! AND A LOT OF FILM AND MOOLA. How can someone be soo good? (ingredients: a working camera (ANY!), a fun-loving-spirited photographer, and a super fun-filled environment he/she lives in and travels to).

few years ago my dad handed me his old Mamiya 645 medium format camera (34-years old analogue madness!), with its mamiya sekor lens (80mm f/2.8). I had no idea how to use, better yet use it with some expensive films. It was so darn heavy! might mistake it for a weapon to throw during the war. haha! I wasn’t able to use it for more than a year because I had to order special batteries that was almost phased-out due to ancientness. haha! :)) Luckily my cousins from New Jersey is ever available for accepting my online deliveries, Thanks Kuy and Ate Jan!

Another few years ago my dad also handed me his Nikon F2 (another 38-year old ANALOGUE MADNESS!), with its Nikor 50mm f/1.2 lens. Same story! everything was manually adjusted that I had no idea what to expect of the photos suppose to come out. no LCD preview, no light meter… thinking about it is just mind troubling. But of course I had to give it a try!

Holga by Lomography is of course just: point + Shoot = FUN!

Here are some of the photos taken from the Analogue madness! enjoy!