There are a few very excellent film photographers at POKE and I've felt a growing desire to try out film photography over the past few months. It's not that I think that I can start to suddenly take photos as good as those folks, but just that there's a lo-fi charm about the whole thing I really like. No chips, or beeping, or card readers or Photoshop.
So, I bought some film cameras. I was tempted by the very famous and popular Lomo LCA, but kept exploring other options. After doing a lot of research and Flickr-ing, the camera I arrived at was the magnificent Olympus XA:
(I also bought a couple of it's newer brothers, the Olympus XA2)
All in all, it's absolutely great fun. I'm getting my films processed at ASDA after some truly awful results from Spectrum Imaging (and some snotty customer service too) and I'm so impressed - giant supermarket doing awesome scans for £1.50 a roll, within the hour - who would've guessed?
Here are some photos off the first couple of rolls I got back from the XA and XA2:
Big thanks to Marc, Greg, Will and the rest of the filmnerds at Poke who opened my eyes to another side of photography :)
I'm also fully aware that I have done any food-blogging in bloody ages. I have loads of photos to blog, and now that I've got over blank-blog syndrome it should be easier to get them posted.
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Nice one! Willow bought the Olympus XA2 before we moved to Sweden. I really like it, too. It's cute.
Yeah, cute is exactly the word :)