Hi Miller and welcome to Filmwasters. Shame you didn't 'un-lurk' before the MPG on Saturday as a few of us attended and we could have met up and said hi...maybe next time?
It was indeed a fun day out and I definitely came away with a bounce in my step. There's something life-affirming about a few thousand photographers in one place all snapping away at nothing with smiles on their faces. We were quietly impressed by the number of film cameras in use too, but it was still a small percentage of the overall figure.
What took us all by surprise though (and I see you experienced it too) was how quickly we became the centre of attention when we took out our cameras and started shooting. As an example here's a photo of myself and Salvo after we got into conversation with a student,
James Gardiner, who was proudly wielding a vintage TLR (Leon disappeared behind me as soon as the DFS
* descended). James and his mates all seemed to be doing a photo degree course and all seemed to be using film cameras. In fact it seemed to us that a greater proportion of the younger people there (e.g. in their 20's and downwards) were using film cameras than there were in the other age groups. Maybe there's a future for this film stuff after all?
L-R: James Gardiner, me, Salvo Toscano.
Photo courtesy of
McTumshie on Flickr. Click on the photo to go to the original.
* DFS = Digital Firing Squad. I liked Miller's use of the phrase
