![]() ![]() I'm not ditching my digital cameras, though. It will force me to take my time composing a picture (money, and there are only 12 shots per roll), and I'm hoping this will make them better. This might not be a good approach for other genres (like street photography) but I think it's perfect for landscape photography. I'm trying to take fewer pictures, but hopefully be able to get a better keep / throw away ratio. I do believe I took 40,000+ photos last year. And it's not my only camera, I also have the a6000, plus my phone, plus my smaller camera (RX100). I've had the A7II for a little bit over a year and I've already shot 25,000 photos with it. You see, we went on a road trip through Washington recently (I'll have the photos ready soon), and I came back with ~1,000 shots from that trip. Not only do I want to shoot film, but also develop it and scan it myself. Not only for aesthetic reasons, but also because I believe this will make me "engage" or "connect" more with my photos. And by serious I mean this will be my main camera for my landscape work. I really wanted to give film a serious try. I know there are other cameras (like Fuji) that let you do that, but I didn't want to get into a whole new multi-thousand dollar system. This makes composing your shot pretty hard, since you can't tell for sure what is going to be in the frame and what is not going to be in there. That wouldn't be a big problem, but the cameras I own (Sony A7II and Sony a6000) don't even let you preview your shot at that aspect ratio. It is really hard to find a modern camera with a square sensor (I only know cameras like Hasselblad or Phase One, completely out of my reach), so if you want to shoot 1:1 you have to crop. I happen to like this format and in fact, I've been cropping all my photos to a square aspect ratio for months now. Why did I get it, though? Well, there are many reasons but two stand out. After weeks of researching, and visiting used gear sites a few times a day, I was finally able to get what is now my new camera: a Bronica SQ-Ai. ![]()
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