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So, Ive decided to make the set into medium format film photography. To tell you the truth, Im a little sick of digital photography as it lacks a certain something that one can only achieve when using an analogue medium.

For all the benefits of technology, and there are a lot, there is so much it fails to deliver on (and always will). The first, in my humble opinion, is that the image from a digital camera is the representation of what you saw when you took it. Those little photons that travelled through your lens and into your camera are then translated into what the camera thinks they looked like. Its an approximation, your cameras opinion. Yes, it does it incredibly well, but there is a gap there where the living, breathing image gets lost and is replaced by a copy, a digitised version. This is not the original image, its a reproduction. When shooting film, you are burning those little photons onto an actual piece of film, its a physical process. The comparison between digital and film is like comparing the difference between listening to a Beatles song on the radio, or walking past Abbey Road as they were playing their rooftop gig. There is something lost in translation with digital photography, something never recovered. Of course, it simplifies the process, making it easier to take more images and work on them as you see fit. But you never truly reproduce the actual moment you were pointing the camera at when you hit the shutter button.