This Week: Pentax at the Farm

Before we begin, I have to say yay Saints!

I've talked a little bit here about my desire to make film photography a larger part of my workflow.  I have dabbled with toy cameras for a few years, but it was only dabbling.  In the fall of last year I began feeling like I was taking the same kinds of photos over and over again.  Retreading the same paths and seeing things the same way.  I wanted a way to breathe some new life into my photography and I decided that focusing on film would be a good way to reenergize myself.  I tend to take two, three, four shots that are similar on my digital camera and just sort it out later.  With film I take one so I really have to think about it before I take it.

I wanted an SLR so I bought a Pentax MX in December.  The Pentax MX is a fully manual film camera. It has a built in light meter, but that's it.  There will be lots of learning going on as I finally learn how aperture and shutter speed work, as I get the hang of choosing film and as I deal with what I think is going to be the biggest challenge, scanning.  You will certainly still see digital pictures as I have Chicago and Panama photos and I will still use my 50D for events, but I'm excited to introduce the Pentax MX era here at Photine.