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One year - way to go!

It’s been exactly one year now since went back to analog photography and I bought my big medium format SLR, and I say, WOW, what a year. I was a bit worried when I made that step, because I knew that I had to re-adjust my whole way of photography (I come from 35mm analog SLR, with a 10 year analog hiatus mingling with the digital side). Now I feel that my old 35mm experience laid a good foundation of basics that helped starting with the medium format at once and I’m in a very steep learning curve ever since, which is very gratifying and fullfiling. In that year, with the help of some literature (AA’s “The Negative” is a mainstay) and watching as well as enjoying the work of fellow analog photogs, I went through most of the shooting regimes like highkey, lowkey, DOF control, working with the zone system etc and have a pretty good control over what I’m doing and this buildup of self confidence and habitual usage of that knowledge is pure joy, fueling all my doing and curiosity about new ways of exploiting the subject. So here’s a big Cheers! to all the fellow analog shooters, and a thanks to the many kind advices I received and inspirations I had by your work!
Mark Schimmer

analog–digital–analog Way to Go indeed!

Exactly my own experience! Well I do not dabble with the Zone System, though that might change a bit… but rediscovering (analog) skill which are just ingrained in my shooting is bliss indeed!

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