“B” on cameras & film

“…how do the tactile aspects of a camera affect the pictures you make with it? For me that is the big hump with digital. I hate the chintzy plastic feel of new cameras. They don’t engage me. I’d rather look through a viewfinder than at an LCD screen. I enjoy dealing with film, unwrapping it like a present, spooling it, and winding the advance with my thumb. Like records and bicycles, film cameras may be old fashioned yet they feel real and unmediated and good. The result of all this, for me at least, is that I make different photos with a film camera than I do with a digital one.”

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