Clutching the Mamiya. 21st June.

After many months of having to borrow a Mamiya RZ67 I have finally been able to acquire my very own one which I can keep forever and use constantly! I have been using a Mamiya for the past two years, but my love affair with this camera started when I decided to shoot a whole project on it, this project was "Our British Lives". From the beautiful colours that 120 film contains, to the high quality of medium format shooting and the 6x7 size of the negatives, I can not recommend this camera enough. I haven't put it down since I first got it, it is such a beautiful piece of equipment.

Our British Lives can be viewed on: http://www.ruthjones.org

Mamyia. 25th March.

So recently I've been shooting with a beautiful beast of a camera, the Mamyia RZ67, it produces slightly larger than medium format negatives (6x7), so pretty great for landscape and portrait photography! I've been using this for my current project about the English and how we live, the negatives are amazing quality when scanned in and it is an exciting piece of kit to use. 

I can't lie, it is a very hefty piece of kit, especially when you have a tripod, lenses and a digital SLR to cart round... but it does make me feel like a legitimate photographer rather than someone who just sees a photo and takes a snapshot of it on their phone. Cameras like the Mamyia take time to use, they make you focus on creating the perfect shot, that's one of the reasons why I love these cameras so much.

The Brownie. 16th February.

Holga. 6th January.

This is a camera which I am constantly falling in and out of love with. It can produce the most amazing photographs, but it can also produce the worst exposed and the most out of focus photographs. I am currently experimenting with the Holga and long exposures, I am yet to develop any film from this experiment, but when I have I know it will either be incredibly successful or look terrible. It is an exciting camera to own and it challenges you to look through the technical abilities of cameras but to just use your own creativity to invent a photograph.