Call me old fashioned, but it’s taken me a long time to understand the appeal of digital cameras. My clunky old SLR has been a trusty friend for years now. When I pull out rolls of 35m film I get the strangest looks; small children watch in fascination as though I’m a living museum exhibit. Taking pictures in to chemists for developing prompts sympathetic sighs from well-meaning counter assistants and, often leaves me feeling like I’m from another planet.
I know where I am with my camera. More than this, there’s such anticipation when I go to collect prints that I always feel like a small child at Christmas. Some pictures are so much better than I ever could have hoped for. Admittedly, a few magic moments have been lost due to camera shake or using the wrong shutter speed, but that’s something that you get used to.
I swore, faithfully, that I would never give up my ‘real’ camera. There’s no delay when I click the button to take a picture, I point and shoot at a person in a moment 0 not a tenth of a second behind them. More than this, each photo is preserved, I can’t delete at […]

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