Cesar Romero
México City a film friendly place
Mexico city is a place where as a film photographer you can find anything almost anywhere: lots of films, urban landscapes, rural landscapes, historic places , secure locations, and people that doesn't care what you are doing in the street.. There are a lot of downsides using film as your main medium when traveling, from insecurity to film scarcity, how easily you overcome this issues depends a lot on the resources the city can give you. *Olympus PEN EE-2 / Konica Centuria expired 2004*
Penning The City Down: A Half Frame Tale.
I might have already said, here and there. I might have as I have a well proven history f repeating myself. Anyway. I did try to like digital. And that's a fact. I mean, I was faking it so well I was actually beginning to believe it myself. But that was a long time ago; nowadays I got back to my own feet, and I am usually referred to as 'that freak who shoots film.' So, how did things turn out this way? What did really happen? I believe this camera did. Olympus Pen EES-2 Ilford XP2 400
A brief (yet helpful) guide to buy expired film
When buying expired film we must consider one thing, we are buying a lottery ticket... There was a time when anyone could go to any store and buy a roll of color film, also there were a lot of photography stores if some specific roll was needed, where a variety of brands, styles and ISO numbers was offered. As the digital revolution took place, the big manufacturers decreased their film catalog, offering just the most commercial types. Nowadays, the hunt season for those lost gems is almost
Guest post: 7 Reasons you should get a 2 ½ x 3 ½ Graflex right away
This post was written by Cesar Romero. As a film photographer, I was always tempted to try large format but it looked so difficult and unreachable, so for some time I just admired young virtuous people like Mat Marrash on flickr but nothing more. One day in a GAS rush I found what seemed a large format camera in good shape, but a sentence in the advert caught my attention “includes a 120 film back” so I thought “I already know how to shoot and develop 120 film and this could be a good start
Analog gadgets, from César Romero
"When i got it in my hands it hit me, the weight, the sturdiness, it felt real, not like any of my gadgets" Tell us about yourself. I'm an 33 years old computational engineer with an MBA in finance, i develop innovative solutions (software+hardware+human resources) for the supply chain of transnational corporations, i'm a techy guy in love with innovative gadgets... When and how did the film journey begin for you? As most 80's kids i grew up taking photos with the family 110 kodak came