I really miss using film cameras and the deliberate way that they force you to work. Of course you can still buy professional film cameras (only a handful) but my latest purchase below is well over 30 years old and is an engineering work of art. It was beautifully built with levers, springs, dials and gears back in the day when machines were built to last. It’s practically mint as I was lucky enough to come across a buyer selling from a collection so it never saw much use. It’s all mechanical except the meter but I have a handheld meter anyway, so it doesn’t even need batteries. So much has changed in the way modern digital kit that I normally use works but amazingly despite all the advances, the basic concept and controls are still the same.

I started out using something of a similar vintage, so I can’t wait to run a few rolls through it. Film has a certain quality that is hard to describe or replicate using digital and skin tones have always been superior on film. I’ve a few projects to get stuck in to over the Winter which lend themselves to working on something like this so I can’t wait to get out and start using it.