#FilmPhotographyDay - April 12th
To celebrate film photography day, I thought I’d post some examples of the work I used to shoot regularly on film before I switched to digital early in the early 2000’s.
My main analogue cameras for all of my industrial and commercial photography were the medium format Mamiya RZ6x7 and the Sinar P2 monorail camera.
The Mamiya used 120 roll film and gave you 10 shots of 6cm x 7cm per roll. The Sinar used both 5'“x4” and 10”x8” sheet film, self loaded in double dark slides which gave you two sheets of film per slide.
I only ever used the 35mm format when the client needed a slide show using projectors or if the assignment needed more flexibility as the shot above on The Prince of Wales Bridge illustrates.
Shooting film gave me a great education and grounding in professional photography, especially in key areas of lighting and understanding dynamic range. Some films were considered good and others not so good, all part of being a pro photographer to have a knowledge of the different types of film to use.
The films I mostly used were made by Kodak and Fuji, and nearly all of the time they were transparency or slide films as opposed to negatives. It was critical to get the exposure accurate to within 1/3 of a stop in exposure for the scene or else you would lose detail in shadows or highlights.
If you’d like some mentoring on shooting film, by all means get in touch via my contact page.
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