Kevin Hayden Paris

“Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound.
Are you coming?”
Rumi

Thursday, December 29, 2016

Hasselblad Analogue/argentique fun

I was going to say if you're over 30 years old you will remember the joy of turning the F-stop ring on the lens of your 36mm film camera or on a 645 medium format camera like the Hasselblad or Bronica. I never tested the 6X6 but always meant too. In the "old days" I used a tripod quite a lot and always had several backs for my MF cameras so that I could switch between colour & black & white or a higher ISO or ASA as it was once known. But now it seems fashionable or cool to use a rustic film camera. It turns heads and starts conversations... Today we can instantly switch from colour to black & white with the press of a button and the turning of a knob. And it's just as simple to change the ISO for shooting in near night time conditions. In the past 10 years the quality of digital cameras has gone beyond what many skeptics said it could or would. I was one of them! That is why today I have pulled out from under my bed boxes of old cameras I no longer use and believe will never use again. It makes me kinda sad but I'm also being pushed by my darlin wife to unclutter before we move homes. I've got 2 Bronica medium format cameras with backs and a polaroid back, also great lenses 75mm F2.8 and the 150mm Zenza F4 Kodak Land polaroid camera, Kodak A-116 camera in great condition and all working. Sekonic light meter, Zeiss light meters, Canon FD 40mm cable releases and to much more to bore you with here. I'm selling the lot and moving on. I may get up early tomorrow and go to the fridge where my Ilford film has been in storage for years now and stroll around frozen Paris streets. Paris without Parisians is always a pleasure. early morning light also always inspires me. So if you're in Paris and want to buy any rustic conversation starters email me alternatively call me in the morning for the walk along the seine.