I’ve spent a lot of time during the last few days reading several very interesting blog articles concerning the ancient art of using film. Although still waiting for my recently exposed film to be developed, I couldn’t resist trying to recreate that “film feeling” using a digital camera. So, this afternoon I took my little Panasonic for a short walk, set it to B&W f2.8, ISO 200, pointed and shot.
To achieve the element of surprise I didn’t look at the display whilst taking the pictures (the camera doesn’t have a viewfinder) neither did I check what I’d taken after pressing the shutter – silly really, but when I first looked at what I had taken when I got back home it really was a sort of film feeling.
Particularly surprising was that the pictures seem to be nice and horizontally straight, something I rarely achieved when looking at the display!
