St Ives from appearance was the perfect location to break out the Rollei Retro 100 – a black and white film with a distinctive old school touch. While I have been experimenting with film for about 2-years this is only my second monochrome investigation. The first one, on my now defunct Canon Canonet rangefinder (1961) was a mess promptly sending me back to colour, but my trusty old 1974 Pentax Spotmatic didn’t let me down.
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Love the top photograph. So so cool. Have fun with the camera.
I have only used digital. Some day I would like to take pictures on film and learn to develop them myself.
My motivation with film was similar: to learn the basics, and not rely on ‘auto’ before I moved onto a digital SLR. After spending time on Flickr and learning my vintage rangefinder and SLR’s functions (and I’m still learning!), I’m almost loath to go to a digital SLR. The grain, and texture of film is something unique, and the process of deciding a shot, and waiting for the development goes against our current ‘instant’ culture. I’m in love with the slow process, as well as the results!