Tag: analog
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New camera: Canon EOS 620
Because apparently I don’t have enough film cameras in the house, I got another one recently: the Canon EOS 620. Film isn’t cheap right now, and some cameras are getting ridiculous. The Canonet QL17 rangefinder I bought in 2014, probably one of my best film cameras, costs roughly three times as much on the open…
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More Film, and digiFilm
I got my first batch of film back from the shop the other day. I sent in six rolls, 36 exposures each, for a total of $76 for developing and a quick scan to CD. The shots from this Vivitar I bought are tremendously weird. I mean, they look like they were all shot in…
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New/Old Camera
So, in the “buying old crap I had twenty-five years ago and threw out at some point,” I found another Vivitar camera that is (almost) the same as the one I had from 1993 to about 2000. I talked a bit about my history with analog film a few years ago, when I last fell…
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Instant Obsession
I’ve had this sudden obsession with analog film. It started when we saw the movie Super 8, which made me google super 8mm film, and then start pricing the stuff. It’s insanely expensive – something like $20 a roll, which is roughly $10 a minute. The cameras are cheap, practically free on eBay, with some…