3 December, 2024
New Horizons and Moving Back in Time
Having shot purely digital for well over a decade, I find myself more and more drawn to the analog process and aesthetic of the film medium. This hankering for a more organic an...
27 August, 2024
A Collector’s Journey From Microscopes to Cancer to Cameras
My passion for film photography began with a different sort of vintage lens, the kind you mount to an aged brass microscope. I’m a biologist and have always been fascinat...
19 June, 2024
My First Five Rolls of Film (Ever)
I didn’t mean to get into shooting film. It was never my plan, never something I set out to do. I certainly had no idea that the format was becoming popular again, or mor...
18 May, 2024
Looking Back at my First Roll of Film
It was June 2015, the first month of Melbourne’s winter, and I had tired of digital photography. I had bought an entry level Nikon DSLR in January of 2015 as a move up fr...
27 April, 2024
Going Analog on Okinawa – Part IV – DSLR Scanning
Part four of four – the previous post can be found here I think this is the final part. I believe having crossed the point in which I have a functional film shooting/produ...
18 April, 2024
Going Analog on Okinawa – Part III – Scanning Misadventures
This is part three in a series, you can find part two here I had a work trip to the Tokyo area recently – which meant I brought along my Nikon F2S with 50mm mounted and a...
11 April, 2024
Going Analog on Okinawa – Part II – The First Roll
This is the second part of this story, you can find part one here I had been on the island about a year – but had rarely shot my DSLR; digital burnout and a lack of inspir...
4 April, 2024
Going Analog on Okinawa – Part I – The Decision
Up until about nine months ago, I was exclusively a DSLR shooter – my photographic journey started with a consumer Nikon APS-C (D5100 in 2010) and topped out at a D750, w...