Growing up, it felt like my every move was recorded by an Argus C3 camera. My mom used “the Brick,” as it’s known in vintage camera circles, to record all of our family events, but the camera is long gone. I recently sought out my own copy of an Argus C3 to see if what I recorded with it would have a vintage look and bring back some fond memories. It did, and I began collecting other vintage film cameras and a vintage camera “wannabe,” the plastic Holga.

The limited number of exposures available on a roll of film makes me slow down and concentrate on composition, because the vintage cameras I use don’t have many settings to be concerned with. I enjoy this more mindful shooting, and I wait in anticipation for my film to be developed. There are no instantaneous results as there are when shooting digitally.

I call my style of film work a “film and digital hybrid,” because I enjoy sharing it, and it must be digitized in order to do that. I enjoy the film look, with the imperfections often visible in images taken with these cameras as they are a departure from the perfectionism of digital. Shooting with vintage and plastic film cameras makes me feel like a Time Traveler.

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