Analogue Photography: The New Passion for the Old

How Did We Get Here?

If you read my introduction to this site you will understand my passion for saving antique cameras and giving them a new life. I search charity shops, antique shops, markets and car boot sales for forgotten cameras, carefully choosing the one’s I can save. My mission is to put each and every one to good use, ideally by putting it back into use as the designers intended by running at least one roll of film through it.

Is it harder than Digital? Undeniably. Is it more rewarding? Incomparably.

Below are the cameras used to create this gallery. Lightroom adjustments are never more than could have been done pre-AI…at most brightness, levels, saturation and retouching the odd speck of just on the negative.

Are they award winning “professional” photos? not by a long way. Do they mean more to me than the best digital photos? Absolutely. Analogue photography is about the process, more than the result.

Expect reviews of these cameras and many more to start appearing very soon…