Whilst at CP+ Lok caught up with Bellamy Hunt, better known as Japan Camera Hunter. Bellamy showed Lok round the I.C.S. vintage camera fair in Ginza and talked him through all the amazing camera and photo equipment that were on show.
I love old cameras and have a small collection of them. I never shot on film so I am completely unfamiliar with any of the cameras shown but the styling and design of these vintage cameras is fantastic. If you are a camera gear lover, this is a place you have to visit. Watching the video, I learned that, in Japan “Mint Condition” means they’ve never been used. So you could get some incredible cameras at this fair.
You should try shooting film and doing the processing yourself, just so you see what its about. I shot film for 10 years prior to digital, had various Nikon bodies and lenses as well as a few Olympus XA cameras for shooting rock climbing. All of my Kodachrome slides are still doing well, the 5247 movie reversal film is fading badly. I had most of my slides scanned years ago, thank god. I still have a collection of prints I made in my early days. Nice to have that memory but once digital came along I was quick to jump ship. I like a faster process and now, unless you’re shooting medium format the quality is incredible with even mid-range digital equipment.
Oh hell no. Too expensive and time consuming for no good enough reason. I can see what it’s all about watching Youtube videos. 🙂
It’s actually not all that expensive, just time consuming. But, the slowness of the process makes for different kinds of results and understanding, some of which translate into the digital world quite well.
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I was a film guy for many years in the last century. Film is magical. Film cameras are more magical.
FWIW, I’m glad I was given some opportunity to process film at my college newspaper, just to observe the chemistry in action, used for a specific purpose.
But I’ve never missed having to deal with the photochemicals involved.
Agreed. I’m not advocating going back to film and individual darkrooms, the speed and mistake tollerance of the digital process can’t be beat for learning. That said, the slowness and various steps in the film process make for a different kind of learning and while I envy folks who started with digital, I’m not so fast to toss out the learning that I experienced with film.
I did pinhole work, large format work, and 35mm work and all of it was interesting and useful for learning.
I took a great large format class from Ansel Adams in Yosemite and while Adams would have enjoyed the digital process, he made the large format process fun and relatively easy for folks who had a bit of experience with exposure beforehand.
Neat story about Adams; sounds like a great experience.
Similarly (IMO) I like to think I gained something important about design and print production by having learned it when the tools were tangible, physical objects.