adam-m
I had a Diana camera when I was five years old. It must have been an original. Of course, I didn't know it at the time. It was black plastic, with grey plastic at the top and bottom. It was given to me by my parents so I could have a camera. Back then, the film was hard to come by, so I only used it maybe three or four times in total. Years later, I lost it. But I still remember it: the little lever on the side of the lens, the semi-transparent red plastic on the back through which you saw what exposure you were on, the click-clicking sound of the winding-on wheel. Flash forward twenty-five years: I'm all growed up (mostly), earning a crust as a lawyer (never saw that one coming aged five) and browsing a shop in Oxford Street when there it is: on the shelf, the same type of camera from all those years ago. And suddenly, there's a wave of nostalgia, the years peel away and I feel like I've found an old friend, an old childhood friend, and I know, standing there, that that camera will be mine. And I know that I have found the camera I will keep for the rest of my life. Good, bad, ugly or indifferent though the photographic/lomographic results may be, this is my camera, my piece of childhood refound, my friend for life. This is my journey. You're more than welcome to join me for the ride, as I hope I am invited to join yours. A bientot, mes amis.
Brighton/United Kingdom
My Photos My Albums My Walls My Likes
My Albums
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Album: Choice Picks (or should that be 'pics'...?)
shared by adam-m on 2013-08-19 · 19 Photos -
Album: By the Seaside - in slide film - Autumn 2012
shared by adam-m on 2013-07-27 · 25 Photos -
Album: Shoreham-by-Sea 35mm Slide Film - Autumn 2012
shared by adam-m on 2013-07-27 · 10 Photos -
Album: Seaside Stroll - January 2013 - 110 - B&W
shared by adam-m on 2013-07-27 · 10 Photos -
Album: Homemade Redscale - Brighton and London 2012-2013
shared by adam-m on 2013-07-20 · 20 Photos -
Album: Brighton/Hove Summer 2012 35mm
shared by adam-m on 2013-02-14 · 26 Photos
My Metas
- Tags:
- 125x
- bag
- beach
- beach;
- bridge
- brighton
- brussels
- canal
- church
- colour
- estate
- film
- flower
- fujifilm
- hove
- hove;
- industrial
- iron
- kitesurfers
- laines;
- lca
- london
- louvre
- market
- markets
- mouffetard
- north
- paris
- pavillion
- pier;
- quoitidienne
- rails
- redscale
- rue
- sea
- seaside
- shoreham;
- sidings
- siena
- slide
- spring
- summer
- sunset
- sunset;
- the
- trains
- vie
- waves
- west
- zoomdate;
- Cameras:
- Fujifilm Zoomdate 125s
- Holga 120 N
- Kodak Ektra 200
- Lomo LC-A
- Lomography Diana F+
- Olympus Trip 35
- Yashica 35-ME
- fujifilm 125x zoomdate
- Films:
- 400 Colour (flipped to make it homemade redscale)
- Black and White 100 ISO
- Black and white ISO 800
- Boots Colour Slide Film 200
- Fuji Provia 400X (35mm)
- Fuji Superia 200 (35mm)
- Ilford DeltaPro 3200
- Kodak Ektachrome E100G
- Kodak Elitechrome 100
- Lomography B&W 400 and 100
- Lomography Color Negative 800 ISO 35mm
- Lomography Orca 100 B&W (110)
- Lomography Redscale 100 35mm
- Lomography Redscale XR 50-200 35mm
- Lomography X-Pro Slide 200 (120)
- Lomography XPro 200 ISO 35mm
- fuji provia 400f x-pro