The soft click of the camera, a flash of light and a moment in time captured forever. Maybe digitally, maybe on film, the medium is never as important as the memory or moment caught. A group of people, a sunset, or even a fish jumping out of the water, a photograph is a way to feel the emotion and context of that exact moment. Celebrate that, on this picturesque Photography Day. I still have a selection of cameras spread around the house. I don't know what happened to me Box Brownie but there are still a few 35mm cameras somewhere. I remember taking a film in to a 1hr processing lab for the first time and how strange it felt to see the pictures the same day as taking them.
One of my all time favourite photographs, see how the photographer has captured the moment and he has the light just right do you agree with me @Lazy Andy ? I think the man at the back (right) is from norf London
Love a photo op... saw this bizarre scene on the side of a fen road last week, so couldn’t resist a photo!
We are all photographers now that we have mobile phones....just think how much it would cost if we took the same number of photos but had to get them developed the old fashioned way.
It was different when every time you pressed the shutter it cost you between 35p and 50p to see the result. So I have a few thousand 35mm negatives collected over 15 years and over 100000 digital camera pictures since about 2001. The difference between an 8MP phone and an 18MP+ digital camera with a sensor 2/3 the size of 35mm film is still amazing. I just wish I had spent more on my early digital cameras as the 1.3MP pictures are.. fuzzy. It took until 2008 when I got a 7MP camera that the pictures stopped being fuzzy. Somewhere I read that 100ASA 35mm film was about equivalent to 26MP.
I missed this day! Love a good camera. And I’m quite fond of some old crap ones too My trusty old Nikon FM2 film camera lives in the camper, loaded with black & white film that I can develop myself. Should use my D700 more often too.
My teenager grandson wanted to learn photography and last year I got him and me a Canon DSLR each so we could do trips and projects together and recently his other grandad kindly gave him his mint condition Olympus OM10 35 mm film camera. Its turned into a big interest and grandson enjoys the school dark room facilities doing black and white processing. The film camera is a blessing as it encourages my grandson to slow down and think more about composition, in contrast to the dslr take loads of pictures and delete most of them. We have discovered some great teaching clips on YouTube, Mike Browne ones in particular which are excellent and dslr based. Shoot Film Like A Boss makes great films on YouTube on 35mm film and dark room processing.
Nice collection. As a kid, I was given a camera similar to the one on the right of your second pic. I promptly took it apart to see how it works, and lost most the bits...
I had a Kodak Brownie 127 as a present on my 9th birthday and used it to take photos of steam locos locally and around the London mainline stations and loco sheds. I still look at my old black and white photos which are part of social history, sadly the Brownie is no longer with me. It was expensive, buying the roll films and paying the processing and I saved pocket money and when I was 11 did a Saturday gardening job to earn some money to pay for steam trips with my mates. Good days.