Hello filmwasters,
finally I found my way to this place and it's nice to see some guys I knew before and I'm looking forward to make friends also with the others. I like the spirit here, it's a friendly place for the young and the old. I especially like the essays and articles.
I learned the basic darkroom techniques in school long time ago, but I "only" made pictures on parties and vacation, and started videotaping since the 90s. About 5 years ago I bought a digital still camera. After 3000 pics in 3 months it was more than boring. All pictures were quite OK, but I had no real idea why and what I should photograph and what I should do with these masses of more or less useless pics. And the digital pictures were lacking something I couldn't describe. Then I remembered how it was, once upon a time...... After recognising how cheap even some of the best used analogue cameras were sold, I decided to give the "old school" another chance. And of course the films had to be home developed.
My first "new" analogue camera was a Pentacon Six with a 2.8/80 Biometar. I was infected. A Minolta X-300 and some nice lenses came. My first real model shooting was a great experiance for me, but this will be discussed in a later essay. SLRs, viewfinders, rangefinders, folding cameras came, and like many of us I suffered from GAS.
Then I discovered the magic world of developing film with coffee. Yes, I am the "enfant terrible" who refuses to use teaspoons for measuring and my Caffenol blog "developed" nicely. So, enough for today, maybe you enjoy some of my pictures.
Best - Reinhold aka imagesfrugales
