36 Exposures

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One of the things I enjoyed about taking an old film camera out with me on yesterday’s walk is that I knew when I set off – and with every shot that I took – that I was going to take no more than 36 exposures (actually, I thought it was a 24-exposure film) and so I had to make every one count – but also that I wanted to use up the whole film (so I could develop it) and therefore had to find 36 things to photograph.

I don’t want to shoot a roll of film every day (would start getting expensive apart from anything else) – perhaps once a week – but it did get me thinking whether the constraints provided by the 36-shot limit/target would be worth replicating when shooting digitally. So today I dug out an old 2Gb SD card and put it in my R5 for today’s walk.

Didn’t quite work out as I hoped – the limit was fine but there was no real pressure to fill the card, and I didn’t. It was also hard to get out of the habit of taking a few shots at each ‘scene’ just to try to increase the odds of getting “the moment”. But I did come back with 19 shots…