When someone is asking me this question - why do I use film for my photography and not just some digital camera or the most accessible smartphone camera, I always find myself in some kind of stopper. I'm not good at agitation, and my explanation is supposed to be some kind of justification for my unwillingness or inability to move forward with the galloping like horse technology.
I have no problems with the technology and use it every single day, but only when and where I need it, without pushing it to any corner of my daily doing. If to be serious, my phone's camera is broken for about 2 years, and honestly, I'm very happy that I lost this ability to photograph everything around me and to forget immediately about the ton of taken frames, to lost them inside the phone's memory forever, without any attention. I was a part of this massive bandwagon and know exactly where all these images are going - to nowhere, at least most of them.
Anyway - for me, analog photography is something touchable, like a picture painted by a traditional Art artist. It slows down my process and the clicking experience - sometimes due to the specific manual film camera abilities, sometimes due to the expensive film, and often both of these.
Here are a few images photographed in 2016-17 and never processed or published, and I have some amount developed and
still not scanned rolls. As said before - the process is slow and the scanning is another brick in this wonderful wall of film photography.
Some words about the technical part. I used my point-and-shoot camera Ricoh GR1s and Ilford HP5 400 black and white film for all images. For the chemical process I used Rodinal R09 developer 1:100 and the semi-stand developing process.
The CAMERA :
And the tiny lens :
and finally - the film (not one of the frames posted here, but the ending part of the roll that is not a part of doing photography process:
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