Analog Photography

My Passion

I learned how to use a camera in the mid 90’s, at that time it was simply imposible to think in any other thing than film to document your life. I still use it today as an ongoing process of self discovery.

Most of the time I shoot color 120 and 135, with some experiments in Polaroid and Instax film.

I develop my black and white film at home and scan it using an Epson V750pro.

You can check some of my analog work at:

My Collection

While my collection keeps growing here is a list of cameras I use in a daily basis:

120 Film

  • Hasselblad SWC-M — 6×6
    • Zeiss Biogon CF 38mm f/4.5
  • Hasselblad 500C — 6×6
    • Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8
    • Zeiss Distagon 50mm f/4
  • Mamiya 7 — 6×7
    • Mamiya 80mm f/4
    • Mamiya 43mm f/4.5
  • Pentax 67 MLU — 6×7
    • SMC Takumar 105mm f/2.4
    • SMC Takumar 55mm f/3.5
  • Fuji GA645Zi — 6×4.5

135 Film

  • Leica M7
    • Leica 50mm f/2.0 Summicron V5
    • Leica 28mm f/2.8 Elmarit ASPH.
    • Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5 Super Wide Heliar aspherical III VM
  • Leica IIIg
    • Leitz Summarit 50mm f/1.5
    • Leitz Elmar 90mm f/4
  • Voigtlander Bessa L
    • Voigtlander 50mm f/1.5 Nokton LTM
    • Voigtlander 15mm f/4.5  Super-Wide Heliar LTM
  • Canon EOS 1v
    • Canon EOS 50mm f/1.2L
    • Canon EOS 40mm f/2.8
  • Olympus MJUII
  • Olympus XA (with A11 flash)
  • Contax TVS
  • Nikon L35 AF2
  • Canon Prima Sol
  • Yashica Electro 35G

Polaroid / Instax

  • Polaroid SX-70
  • Polaroid 600SE
    • Mamiya 127mm f/4.7
    • Instax Wide Back
    • Polaroid FP100 Back
    • 6×7 Back
    • 6×9 Back
    • 6×6 Back
  • Fuji Instax Sq6 – Square
  • Lomo Instant Sanremo – Mini
  • Impossible I-1

Hacking &
Reverse Engineering

Between the never ending learning process of taking photographs and using old cameras, the main problem I, and the community in general, encountered is the lack of proper documentation for the proper maintenance of equipments and cameras, it’s both an art and a science that felt into the abism of the modernization. To understand how to service and use some of the equipment I had to learn about chemistry, mechanics, optics, physics and if you want to understand photographs, aesthetics, art, philosophy and of course history.

I’ve teach myself how to services most of my cameras, to keep them running, we created an awesome community of people who share the same passion and want to learn and listen to others experiences and challenges.

With some friends we have a podcast where we talk about analog photography.