Film Friday – Neighborhood

FILM! Why?

I just got a super cool vintage medium format camera. For all you photo nerds out there it is a Mamiya C330 TLR (Twin Lens Reflex) with a 135mm lens. I have been toying around with the idea of owning this camera for several years now. I first played with a TLR my freshman year at Pratt when my photography professer lent me his camera over Christmas break. Looking through the flipped viewfinder for the first time challenged my thinking. I saw things differently, literally, by the flipped viewfinder and the square format. Composing each shot takes time and effort, you don’t want to mess up.  Each roll of 120 film comes with 12 frames. Each of those 12 frames must count.

After coming home from Kiwi Camera I felt like a kid on Christmas morning. I couldn’t wait to get out and photograph. I took my recently aquired medium format camera around the neighborhood, and this is what I got:

I took my roll of film to a lab here in Orlando that process and scans film. I got back a cd with 12 images perfectly ready to put online. The only thing I did in photoshop was resize and add my logo to the image. It was that easy!

Dave got a motorcycle this week. It is super pretty.

So what is the deal with the title – Film Friday?

Exactly that! Each friday post will consist of photos shot on film. No digital here! I find that shooting with film occasionally helps me to slow down and to really focus on what I am taking a photo of.

Please join me for Film Fridays! Post your link below with your own film friday blog entry. Each week I will post a link to other Film Friday participants.

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