Week 348 was posted by Charanjit Chana on 2024-06-29.
I of course have my DSLR that I must certainly make more use of but I also have a bunch of film cameras at home too. I dug them all out and found that two had film in them.
The first is a Canon A-1 35mm camera with a slew of lenses, it had some film in which is now finished and removed. The battery was dead, but now replaced so it's ready to use.
There's Lomography Fisheye Baby that I've had for almost 20 years, but not used for 15. It didn't have any film in it and the lack of a view port makes it tough to use, but an interesting camera to have. I also have a soviet-era camera, the XXX. Also not one I've used and it has a pretty ludicrous shutter system but it's compact.
Lastly is the Lomography Konstruktor that you have to build yourself. It came with a roll of black and white film but the counter is sketchy and I couldn't tell you if I used the entire roll of film or not. I assumed I had as it couldn't be wound any more and I've since removed it from the camera.
Obtaining film
This is tough, rolls of film easily cost £10 a pop. That's hard to stomach when I remember being able to buy a roll for £1 and then paying to develop them, or buying pre-paid rolls that included the development in the cost.
I'm on the hunt for a roll or two and I'll go back to the Canon for casual and occasional photos that I'll develop when the time is right. That could be years away and I'm happy to wait.
Developing
Developing film is ludicrously expensive if you perform a quick search. I was pretty shocked at the costs but the last rolls of film I developed were at Asda in the 2000s and they still have a mail based service that is reasonably priced.
I have fond memories of shooting on film only to be disappointed with the results because only a handful of photos were usable. That's part of the charm too though.
Hopefully there's a blog post in my future where I share some new analogue photos, you can see my existing lot over on Flickr in my Captured on Film album.
Update
The year has been a blur, I didn't realise I was basically re-posting something from earlier in the year for Week 336.
Tags: photography