This has been one of the craziest summers for me in a long time. With a family vacation, family reunion, church activity and a few other events my June and July have been pretty busy.
In this time however I've acquired a film camera. I have several oldies but I wanted one that I could use with my current Canon lenses. After doing a little research I settled with a Canon Elan 7N. I've shot one roll of Fuji film from the clearance aisle at Walmart and I have to say I'm pretty impressed with the results.
The biggest reason for this purchase was to spend less time in front of the computer and more time shooting. I work on a computer all day for my day job, the last thing I want to do is to spend my evenings on it doing post processing work on my images shot with my digital cameras. I've even resorted to taking JPG's only with my Fuji X100. It does such a great job with jpg's that I don't have a need to do any post processing. The second reason for the change is to force me to slow down. Digital seems to be getting easier and frankly boring sometimes. I love how shooting film forces you to slow down and consider every shot before pressing the shutter button. Will I ever ditch digital? No, I love my Canon 5D MarkII and Fuji X100 and will probably upgrade to the Mark III soon. But I'm going to continue to shoot film more and more. I've heard a lot of good things about the Leica M cameras. I'd love to get my hands on a M6 or M7 to try out for a few days.
I've included few images taken at my dad's place in Rexburg Idaho. Shot in the harsh middle of the afternoon sun on the cheap fuji film.
I've got a small project that I will be starting next week. I have to give credit to a good friend for the idea that I will be talking more about next week.
