For Belgian photographer Romuald photography is:
“just a mechanical toy that makes images, all the rest is nonsense”.
I quite like his harsh straight-forward attitude. What I like more however is his collection of analogue cameras!

“it’s nearly impossible for me to try all my camera’s, I have more then 300, I collect since 3 years visiting Belgian flea markets to create a huge collection, I’m still building up!”

What’s more is he has a good selection of images shot on the great Horizon camera

With Sweedish/French roots, Herman Düne are the kind of band you either have never heard of or love!
I read somewhere that their music is “Indie Antifolk”, i have no idea what that means but maybe you can decide for yourself here.

They’ve been praised by big-name publications from NME to the Independent and even the late John Peel was a fan inviting them to play at his Christmas party back in 2000.
My main concern however is their analogue obsession as they still record triple A and press records!
It was also a natural choice for them to get Ringo, head of Lomography France and girlie music lover to shoot all their press images on film.

Check them out

Photos By Ringo

Corrado’s shots scream grit, sex, film and therefore analogue! Having floated from Parma in Italy through Milan, Berlin, Barcelona before finally landing in London Mr Dalco doesn’t seem to be afraid of taking risks. I’m not too sure if I like him; his shots are good, he is a really friendly guy and he gets extremely beautiful women to reveal themselves in a very personal and non-contrived way.

favorite analogue cameras? polaroid SX-70, yashica T4, mamiya RB67
favorite films to shoot on? polaroid SX-70, kodak tri-x, fuji RHPIII
plans for the future? An exhibition at the battersea power station!

www.urto.com
His flickr

Made in 1970, the Yashica Mat 124G is largely seen as a entry level medium format 6X6 camera. This Rolleiflex clone is a beauty to use, quick, light and with an inbuilt light meter. There’s something very special about shooting on a twin lens reflex, it’s less intrusive than a slr and people act differently in front of one. Hunt around for one and after a quick service you will not notice the difference in quality between this and a more expensive Rolleiflex.

I got mine precisely so I could explore medium format photography. Quite soon after I bought it I was given a Mamiya RB67 and that was then my camera of choice for 120 photography. In recent weeks however I have taken the Yashica out and fell in love with it! It’s lighter, prettier and the photos are great quality. If you can get your hands on one don’t hesitate to hand over the cash!

You can’t really have a blog about all things analogue without mentioning Lomography! Especially as in the future there will be lots of photographers on analoguemasters who will either be inspired by or active Lomographers.

To cut a long story short Lomography is a photographic society based in Vienna but with “Embassies” worldwide. Started in the early Nineties with the discovery of the Russian Lomo LC-A Lomography has grown into a large worldwide community. They now produce their own Lomographic cameras and accessories and they were one of the first websites were people could upload photos, and create their own lomohomes and interact with other people.

Much more can be discovered at their newly updated website: www.lomography.com

Part of Lomography’s visual identity is the explosion of analogue snap-shots displayed as Lomowalls. All their gallery stores have meters of lomowalls on the walls and at any given time there is an exhibition somewhere of 1000s of fantastic lomographs discplayed on huge Lomowalls!

Recently I took a friend to www.sendeancameras.co.uk – The days previously I’d been flirting with the idea of getting into 110 film so I was left pretty astounded when my eyes magnetically connected to the Pentax Auto 110!
I think this must be the smallest SLR camera in the world! I immediately negotiated a (too expensive) price and bought it. A little surf online then made me realize what a fantastic camera this is. Fully automatic with interchangeable lenses; the negative of 110 film is less than half the size of 35mm so if you’re a lover of grain you need one of these!

Check out some images below: