It was 1998 when I shot my last roll of film before getting my first professional digital camera. I am very proud to have had an education in photography the old school way. Where you actually had to “think” before you snap away, where frames per second or 25600 ISO did not mean anything and where shooting film was “cool”. I don’t want to say “film is dead” b/c I have a great respect for that medium and for all shooters that use film in an all digital world. There are only few people that embrace that and one of them is my friend and fellow wedding shooter Riccis Valladares who is 100% film and 95% black and while. Now THAT is where I take off my hat and say “respect”. About 2 weeks ago, I went to see him speak at a seminar at Foto Fusion and got inspired to shoot some film again. I leased a Leica M7 and a 50mm/ F1.4 lens and fired a few frames during an engagement shoot. Strangely, it was easier for me to lease the camera than to find professional film. I ordered 20 rolls of my preferred film from New York and I will be shooting more soon.
Below are a few images I selected from one roll of T-MAX 3200 rated at 1600 ISO. Everything is “as shot” no cropping no altering in any way. Shot 100% manual, focus, exposure and film advance (I can’t believe that I am actually bragging about that, but in today’s world shooting all manual is rare). All these images are straight from the camera and scanned on a Fuji Frontier 3600 scanner. All I did to them was bump the contrast by 10% as it got lost in the scanning process. I have a few more rolls of film coming soon and I will post more as soon as I get them from the lab. I truly love the look & feel of film images. Film is not dead, only smells funny.
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