I have to start this article with a confession… I had never planned for film photography to be a part of my life. I was never interested in film and wanted a digital camera so I could take as many shots as I wanted, while also being able to instantly judge what I was doing. […]
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My First Roll… Kodak Gold 200 in a Pentax ME Super and SMC Pentax-M SMC 50mm f/1.7
I got into photography sometime around the beginning of the pandemic, I still don’t know what it was that made me stick with Pentax as my go-to brand but I saw a used Pentax ME Super being sold and I quite liked the profile and control layout but I was also going in blind. With […]
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My first roll of film… Buenos Aires on Fuji Color 200 (Meikai EL)
I used to live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This huge city has a crazy nightlife and a young vibrant community of self-made, self-taught ‘anything’. In spite of the economical constraints and political clashes, people try hard to find not just profit, but also purpose. Art as all art, photography provides a sense of relief, exploration […]
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My first roll… Kodak Gold 200 in an Olympus OM20 (35mm format, EI 200, Olympus Zuiko 50mm f/1.4)
After around 12 years of digital photography, I stumbled across film. I found myself coming away from the high contrast triggering photos everyone seems to be creating on digital these days (including myself). I had moved from DSLRs to micro four thirds and still found myself striving for something more creative and challenging. For that, […]
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My First Roll… Of ILFORD Delta 3200 Professional, 35mm, EI 3200 with a Canon Elan II + Canon 50mm f/1.8
My first roll of film was an exciting one. I had an old 1990s Canon film camera, the Elan II, for years and I had done absolutely nothing with it. I found myself bored with digital photography. It had become uninspiring to me, however, I still wanted to practice my photography. So I had to […]
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My first roll… Kodak T-MAX 400 with a Nikon FE + Nikon Series E 50mm f/1.8 lens
I started taking photos in 2020 as a hobby, the idea of photography excited me as it was a way to see the city and my Vancouver neighbourhood through a different lens. Growing up my mom loved photography and had always had a Nikon FE around. As a child, I loved holding the camera, turning […]
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My first roll… Kodak Gold 200, Praktica LTL + Sikor-XL 80-200mm f/4.5 & Clubman 28mm f/2.8
My first roll was quite recent, in February of 2020, which feels like years ago now. At the time, I spent a lot of my time wandering in London – I’d regularly pick a spot I want to go see, but without any real activity or goal in mind, I’d wander while listening to a […]
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My first roll… of 35mm film (aged eight years old)
The title is a lie. Judging by my mother’s careful organisation of our family photographic archive, the photos I’m about to share are from my third roll of 35mm. The first two were taken during summer camp holidays and mostly feature portraits of other children. They are all grown up now but I do not […]
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My First Roll… Of self-developed black and white film (Kodak T-Max 100, Nikon F2)
I’m going to push the definition of this series but bear with me. First, I’d like to say that this was a disaster but also a learning experience. Like all good stories, this one has a bit of a background to it so let’s start with the question, why get into self-developing film at all? […]
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My First Roll… Of 35mm film (aged five years old), Kodak Plus-X Pan and an Agfa ISO-RAPID 1
The details are hazy, but the best I can figure is that my grandfather gave me this camera in 1967 for my fifth birthday. I still have it. It’s an Agfa ISO-RAPID 1. Very basic, and a bit like a Kodak Instamatic, only, can I say… worse? It too shot square frames on AGFA Rapid […]
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My first roll… Of 35mm film – Fuji Superia X-TRA 400
Regular readers might remember a conversation between Hamish Gill and me about the false narrative that is the “constant stream of success” on social media. You know what I’m talking about: perfect photos of perfect scenes with perfect cameras. It doesn’t exist outside of perfectly curated personas but is persuasive enough that it frustrates the […]
