My First Camera.
My first camera was a Minolta SRT, gifted to me by dad back in the '90's when I was in in Art College. Film photography was always my first love, in the photography sense of the word. Anyone who has ever smelt the inside of a darkroom knows the sort of nostalgia this can invoke, and the feeling that you get when you develop that perfect photograph. There is something about photographs that he have been developed in a darkroom by the person who took the photo while out on the street, it certainly gave me a buzz. My Minolta SRT101, with a Miranda lens. Sorry about the kitchen surface background. While I am no technophobe, I do believe that digital cameras are fantastic and they certainly have changed the photographic landscape, there is something that they cannot produce, and that is the handmade feel that darkroom photography has. Developing digital photographs is a completely different process. It is still a labour ...