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For both neither was quite right, the a6000 didn’t feel good in my hand, and the a7 series, a bit too large.

Iridient developer and vsco full#

I first looked at Sony with their popular a6000, and of course the more expensive a7 series that would give me full frame and a true display of the lenses. The result was trying to find a mirrorless camera that could satisfy both. I was wanting to shoot these lenses more, and I was also tired of lugging around big Nikon DSLRs. Today I still have my old faithful Canon AE-1 with a series of about five lenses, an Olympus OM-1, and several Minoltas with a dozen plus lenses. You see around 2017 my desire to return to film took off again especially when I realized how cheap the cost was for most of them. Now fast forward to the beginning of 2020 - I had a total of three Nikon DSLRs and a host of great vintage film cameras and lenses I had begun collecting around 2017. So for a good ten years after, my film days were dormant. Target was wrapping up it’s in-store photo processing around then. In 2007 I briefly pulled out the AE-1 again to take photos of my newborn son with some expired film that I developed at Target. I had basically stopped shooting all film in 2004 with a Kodak Advantix C700 APS film camera. At that time a six megapixel photo was plenty for printing and the quality was excellent in good lighting. Chunky DSLRs with a wide range of lens options despite the D70 being only six megapixels.

A 2004 Nikon APS-C DSLR looked very close to its film predecessors immediately before. The Nikon D70 was a game changer despite the fact that the D70 was going on six years.

Iridient developer and vsco upgrade#

As the years went on I would upgrade point and shoot digitals here and there until a friend of mine offered to sell me her Nikon D70 in 2010. Add to that, people were starting to look at photos on websites or via email attachments, so even printing was less of an issue. While the photos didn’t have the quality of film, I also didn’t have to pay for processing or wait time. This love of that SLR continued on for years until 2001 when I purchased my first digital camera, the Toshiba PDR-M61. The AE-1 was given to me by my dad for high school photography classes. I took it everywhere, including multiple travels to Europe. You might say the perfect way to start film photography as a young boy is with a Canon AE-1.