Instant Reborn of My Inner Creativity

I love Fujifilm cameras. I love photography. Especially a candid street photography. The idea of chasing decisive moment. The unknown.

I always have X100 in my backpack. It’s digital but don’t look and don’t operates as such. It’s so close to the analog days. I never looked at the LCD screen (after taking the photo) and mostly use optical viewfinder. As I get home first thing was always to review the newly photos. I love that moment.

The ability to look at new photos right away is important for me. I can wait whole day. But in the end of that day I want to just sit back, relax and review the photos – one by one. And I think because of this I never wanted to go back to the analog days. In my city developing a film may take even a week.

On the other hand I get lost by too many possibilities with RAW developing. There’s just so much styles and combinations. I couldn’t decide which one is best and become drifted away form the core of photography. I was lost in perusing for the perfection.

Few years ago I used Fuji Instax camera for a short time. It was o.k. but the price of film, no manual controls (flash!) and the fact that it was designed for portraits didn’t hooked me. But when I saw Lomo’Instant camera it was love from the first sight. Perhaps I just grew up to try lomography and the whole analog movement.

I calculated my budget. And by calculating I mean moving anything to next month just to have a buffer for the purchase of camera and a several dozens packs of films. Then I selected the prettiest one, the San Sebastián and bought it. The film and batteries was available at my local shop nearby but the camera itself didn’t arrive till few days later.

While waiting for it I dusted my old Instax Mini 7s and inserted one of the films. To get into the analog mood I did some photos documenting our apartment.

I would never did them if not the lomo philosophy. I just take a camera, looked around and feel that this is the time and place to push the button. Some of theme were too dark or have not so perfect composition. But they all have the most important thing – the emotions.

I saved the last frame for portraying myself with the new camera. To make this symbolic transition to the next level. And to start my true Lomography chapter in life.

This time I was already hooked.