Agfa AG603001 Photo Analogue 35 mm Photo Camera Red Set (Film + Battery)

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It also outputs clean and consistent photos, and with a wide f/1.9 aperture lens and built-in flash, it makes it great to take out at night as well. This isn't a camera for capturing great artistry, but for capturing memories with ease, this is certainly a fantastic option. It all began with a fateful encounter in the early 1990s, when a group of students in Vienna, Austria, stumbled upon the Lomo Kompakt Automat - a small, enigmatic Russian camera. Mindlessly taking shots from the hip, and sometimes looking through the viewfinder, they were astounded by the mind-blowing photos it produced - the colors were vibrant, with deep saturation and vignettes that framed the shot - it was nothing like they had seen before! Upon returning home, friends wanted their own Lomo LC-A, igniting a new style of artistic analogue photography that we now know as Lomography.

If you asked any professional photographer in the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s which was the best film camera, they would have said a medium format camera. This might have been a twin-lens camera like a Mamiya C330 or a medium format SLR like a Hasselblad 500 C/M. It used a vertical metal shutter rather than the horizontal rubberized cloth shutters in most rival DLRs but it was fully mechanical so the FM2 could work without a battery – this was only needed for the internal light meter. Its 1/4000sec top shutter speed and tough copper-aluminum-silicon alloy body made it sought after amongst pros, not just enthusiasts. Emulsion - The matte side of a film or paper which is light sensitive. When film or photographic paper is exposed and processed, the emulsion reveals an image.Aperture - The hole in which light passes through to expose the film – the lens opening. Aperture is measured in F numbers, the lower the number the bigger the aperture. A high aperture number means a smaller zone of sharpness within the shot. And if the medium format is too small for you, then you of course have large format, which is referred to when a negative is anything over 6x9, but you usually find these cameras in a 4x5 or 8x10 configuration. They offer the most micro adjustments possible when taking an image, however, due to their sheer size and the weight you expose your image onto a sheet of film, rather than a roll. Due to this and their impractical portability, you will only be able to take one image at a time, or two images per film holder. Electronic Flash - A camera accessory which can add a burst of light to a dark subject for proper film exposure.

Medium format is the next size up from 35mm. Spooled onto rolls, 120 (or increasingly rarely 220) film is used in professional studio cameras such as those from Hasselblad, Rolleiflex or Mamiya, along with some more quirky cameras such as the Holga 120N. Cross Process - There are two types of color film chemistry: C-41 (for color negatives) and E-6 (for color slides). Cross processing is, essentially, dunking unprocessed film in the “wrong” chemistry for its film type. When color slide film is cross-processed in C-41 chemistry, the resulting images have deeply saturated colors and high contrast. The same applies to all medium format cameras, which are the next step in your analog journey. Thanks to their bigger negative than 35mm, it opens up possibilities to enhance your images, as the bigger negative means higher resolution images with greater detail and sharpness. You are also treated to different format cameras that can shoot different dimensions on a roll of 120 film.

Which usually means it had not been used that much, another tip is to always ask to see sample images taken with the cameras in question, if you can see they take images and you're happy with the results, then congratulations you've found a film camera to add to your collection. Gold by name, golden in nature, this film leans towards warmer tones and oozes nostalgic 90s and early 2000s vibes – think turn of the century sun-soaked holiday snaps. It has a rich look that works well for travel, landscape and moody portraiture. Its lowish ISO 200 rating means that it works best when there’s a decent amount of light around, but indoor work is possible with flash. For more low-light versatility, the aforementioned Ultramax 400 is always a good alternative. Fisheye Lens - An extremely wide-angle lens which yields hemispherical images on film, the Fisheye lens is named for the field of vision which fish are believed to have. Its ISO 400 rating makes it a versatile option, allowing it to cover most types of photography. Portra 160 and Portra 800 films, both with similar although not identical colour and contrast characteristics, are also available should you need more or less light sensitivity. Darkroom - Literally, a dark room in which you can chemically process film or print from negatives without exposing the photo-sensitive film and paper to light.