Back to analog?

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Back to analogue – Part 3: Vienna views on Kodak Ultramax 400

My heart starts beating faster these days when the download link with scans of my latest analogue photos arrives from the photo lab. Will it

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Back to analogue – Part 1: Venice, lomified

I grew up with analogue photography, but after I started using a digital camera some 20 years ago I never looked back. Until now, that is. T

For more of my Venice lomography, you could check out my blog.

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Well, I just thought, let me see what comes up if I search for the term "analog" in the music selection - and this was one thing that popped up. Pleasingly simple and somewhat weird too, a bit like that lomo film.

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It´s grainy, it has weird distortions, weird pink and teal colours - that lomo film that came with a cheapy camera I got for my birthday just for fun. I took it to Venice, and somehow I loved it, the snapping away, without being able to set any aperture, without being able to focus ("works best at a distance of about 2 meters from the subject"), and without knowing how over-exposed or under-exposed a picture would be. It is a different way of photographing from my usual digital cam, where I can quickly check, delete, redo...

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So quintessentially Italian summer vibes - not the colours, the scene. But perhaps the colours of this weird lomo film too.

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“To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see" - Dorothea Lange, photographer.

That is perhaps what it is like with analog photography. Even if you have a concept in mind, you do not see what your camera has seen until you get that film processed. But she was more likely talking about being spontaneous and not being able to plan every shot.

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I got this birthday present of a cheapy little plastic camera that my DH acquired at a museum, loaded with lomo film. Although I grew up with analog photography it was the first time I picked up an analog camera in about 20 years, and since this was basically point and shoot, that is what I did. The results were - quirky, and fun. It is not a film I want to use a lot, but it was worth the try.