I've just bought myself a Mamiya RZ67 Pro II medium format film camera. My reason for this was to get back into shooting film. It's all too easy nowadays with digital to fire off countless frames without really thinking too much about it, kind of on autopilot almost. So I decided to get myself a film camera again for my personal work, slow things down a bit and see where it all takes me. I think it's great to experiment as a photographer, I used to shoot film but somewhere along the way I sold my film cameras and went fully digital. Don't get me wrong, digital is great, I love it, and for my commercial work it works well, but I just felt something missing, a need for something different. Let's hope that this camera, this process, can fill that gap. It'll be great fun finding out if it does. You never know, I might end up using it on some commercial jobs.
I bought the camera second hand so I ran a quick roll through it the other night while cooking dinner to see if it all works. I'd forgotten the difference between f2.8 on medium format vs. 35mm, that's some shallow depth of field. Here are a few shots. I'll post more of me getting used to shooting film again here as and when I do. It'll be good to see where it all ends up.
©2010 Jerry Balloch
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