Why I Shoot Film in 2018 📷
Photography is one of my (numerous and disparate) hobbies, and you may be perplexed to learn that I shoot quite a lot of 35mm film. Can you even do that any more? Isn’t that really inconvenient? As it turns out, yes on both counts, but I quite enjoy it! I have always been interested in documenting the world around me, and I was given a Nikon F-301 (35mm film SLR) camera as a teenager to learn with. Almost from the start, I was what might be termed an “aspiring” photographer – more serious than your average “holiday snapper”, and not a professional, but always wanting to improve my skills and images. I was rarely happy with taking the odd snapshot here and there and was always looking out for opportunities to record how I saw the world. So this is how it came to be… ...