I started a new adventure into the art of film photography last month with the purchase of a Kodak Ektar H35 point-and-shoot film camera. Click here to see what I posted about it in this blog. Being a half-frame camera, I had 72 frames in the Fomapan 200/36 that I wanted to use as my first roll of film. That was a lot of frames, and I shot it for the longest time ever. Last week I finally dropped it off to be developed, and today early in the morning I got the scans back.
Kodak Ektar H35 Harf-frame 35mm Film Camera
This little camera not only looks so cool, but also limits you in so many ways that it forces you to be creative about every photograph that you capture. It is an all-plastic toy like camera with a small plastic lens that does not allow you to control the shutter speed or the aperture. It comes with a 22mm lens that has a fixed f9.5 aperture, a fixed shutter speed of approximately 1/100 seconds, and it only requires a battery if you want to use the inbuilt flash to add more light to your scene. It also does not read the DXO code on your film rolls. So essentially, film loading, rewinding, and all other aspects of this camera are manual. Which means I had to pay so much attention to the light, the shadows, perspective, and lay my trust on composition to help me tell a compelling story.
So instead of rambling on about taking photographs with this very interesting camera that was equally freeing and challenging to work with, let me share a few of the images that I like from this first roll of film that I ever shot.
