The last few days I had plenty of time to think about things and in particular about my blogging and photography. How was it years ago before DSLR and the digital evolution? Do you remember loading a camera with film, take a proper light meter reading and expose the film, take the exposed film to the nearest professional lab and days later pick it up and go through the material on the light bank and scan the selected image into your computer? I am sure if this would be the process today, a lot less blogs would be around, a lot less of images I would say! A lot less cameras would have been sold I would say. I see similarities to LP’s and CD’s; try to find a shop where one can buy much better sounding Vinyl! Almost impossible. So it is with film stock, more precisely with medium format film, 120mm. After visiting a number of stores here in Dubai I finally got some old stock from a photographer friend of mine. (Thank you Nigel !)

My Mamiya RZ67 Pro, perhaps would not win a beauty contest but is one of the best cameras I have. The lenses are the best out there and using a good film would produce a much better image than any digital camera. Fuji Provia 100 ISO is just the best film there is next to Velvia of the same producer. Using a Mamiya is such a joy and I wonder if I really should start to save some fund for a digital back or just use film and go though the entire procedure of developing, scanning and publish.

If there is anybody out there shooting on film and loves to work with medium format to let me know!!

Once I have the images scanned I will publish them in a separate posting.