Hi I wanted to start off by saying that I love your photography and I think you and Julie are an amazing couple! I had some photo questions to ask you though, I’ve only ever shot with a digital camera but I’m very interested in shooting with a film and/ or instant film camera, do you have any relatively inexpensive suggestions? Thanks!

Absolutely. One of the great things about shooting film is that getting started inst very expensive. Depending what you like to shoot Id have more specific suggestions.

Generally Id say start with something simple and fun. I got back into film with a LC-A, a lomography camera. Simple settings, and set distances for focus. You can get the older russian ones on ebay for like $100 or so. Then you can get super cheap film at Rite-Aid/CVS/Walgreens. Its pretty crappy film but not a bad way to experiment. Lomography has the LC-A, its newer and better internal parts but its about $300. While your at the lomography site, they have lots of inexpensive “toy” cameras. For both 35mm and 120mm (medium format). Another good one is the Olympus XA. It a small range finder camera you can find on ebay. They are usually pretty cheap but hard to find a good working one. Or if you have SLR lenses usually you can get a good old film SLR for cheap now a days. My EOS-3, which roughly like the film version of the 5D you can get for like $400 on ebay no a days and if you have lenses for a 5D, or full frame canon lenses, they will all fit. The same goes for Nikon if you shoot Nikon. Hope that all is helpful and not just too much info.

Derek