Medium Format Venturings

I remember shooting my first roll of 35mm film at the age of 14.  It was exciting to put the Minolta XD7 through its paces at Bristol Zoo.  Although the Minolta XD7 was the first camera ever to feature aperture priority, I still felt very connected to the process.

On return of the prints from this roll came a very fast lesson in shutter speeds.  It turns out 1/60 of a second, handheld, with a longish lens is not a good idea.

20ish years later and, after being spoiled by modern digital features like image stabilisation, digital viewfinders and, well, everything that digital has to offer in the modern age, I began my medium format venturings and felt I was going through the same connected and manual process again with my first medium format roll of Ilford FP4 PLUS on a Mamiya C330.

 

There’s something magical about getting your head around all the little quirks and workarounds that shooting and processing film involves.  Such as parallax and inverted images whilst shooting, right through to processing your own film and fumbling in the dark, praying you haven’t just loaded the backing paper instead of the film. 

Anyway, enough rambling, these are the results of my first venture into medium format.  Minimal editing, dusty scans, slightly spoiled film and all

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