I’m a fan of photography! I’ve largely had the hobby on hold for the past year and a half due to covid, but I’m looking forward to going back out and taking pictures of things!
I’m strictly amateur and I try to stay as analog as possible. My primary camera is a Nikon F3 35mm SLR, which suits my needs perfectly; it has lots of handy features as long as you aren’t looking for things like automatic focus, automatic aperture control, or automatic film advancing. I like to use a 50mm or 35mm lens for most things. I also have a 135mm lens and a 70-200mm zoom lens but I don’t use them as much. The zoom lens especially is a little too heavy for my liking.
I also have a Yashica-MAT EM medium format TLR that I love. It’s lacking in some features, but I appreciate its simplicity in a way. I’m usually not using a light meter with it but I also like using slide film (Fuji Velvia 50 can produce jaw dropping results from a purely technical perspective) so I tend to bracket my shots. I love the high fidelity from medium format; if I’m in a low-light situation the larger negative size can make up for grainy fast film.
I have a couple other cameras too all for simple fun pictures: a point & shoot Polaroid 600, a Holga, and a Diana. I haven’t tried the Diana yet but I used to love using my Holga to get the kind of aesthetic in pictures that later became popular through Instagram filters.
Yeah! Photography! It’s fun! One of these days I’d like to get a digital camera; I like that if I got a Nikon SLR I could use my old manual lenses with it. I’m generally a “shoot from the hip” type of photographer, so if nothing else I’m sure I’d save money on film. But in the past when I tried digital photography with a point and shoot, I was never satisfied with my results and it ended up bringing me out of the hobby for a while.
I’ll share some of my pics later!