Here are the 8 of the 10 photos that came back when I sent the camera in:
Although I am disappointed with the quantity of blanks that I must have shot (I recall taking a lot of photos in and outside of a dark club), I love the quality of those that worked. I find something really aesthetically pleasing about the low resolution, aged effect that these photos offer when compared to photos produced using digital cameras.
After hunting down the cheapest film camera I could find, I now have an Olympus Trip 35 (the coolest-looking camera I've ever seen) which I purchased from a car boot sale for £10. Although the camera was cheap, the film to fill it came in at £3 a roll, and to get the photos developed - both printed and on a CD - is another £7.
While this may be more expensive, and more hassle, than using a compact digital camera, there are a couple of things that I have always admired about film. I enjoy the mystery of not instantly being able to see the moments captured, coupled with the excitement of going to get them developed. More importantly for me, however is the time-travelling feel I get with every click. As a sentimental person I thoroughly enjoy flicking through old photo albums of me, my parents, and my grandparents as children. Our children won't have this pleasure with digital technology filling computers, rather than photo albums, with innumerable 'selfies' rather than fewer printed pictures taken at more significant moments.
The digital technology that most use today destroys the need for a skilled photographer, as most would agree that anyone can take a decent picture if you have countless frames and editing tools available. Film sets you and your photographs aside from other photographers as the skills needed, and the impracticality of shooting on film has left it unpopular.
I love the imperfection of the few photos I have from my last roll of film, and hope to have a better set of photographs to show you next time.
Keep posted.
S.B.
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