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Pennsylvania Avenue Subway, Reading Railroad, Philadelphia, 2004.
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The GX680 was a fun but very unusual camera that couldn't quite decide what it wanted to be. It's a truly gigantic beast of a medium format SLR camera providing (limited) view camera movements. It shot 120-format roll film with a 6x8cm frame (so a 3:4 aspect ratio), with a built-in autowinder. It's sort of what you'd get if you merged a Nikon F4, a Hasselblad, and a Crown Graphic. Definitely not a point & shoot camera.
I went all digital about a year after this photo.
I love that so many creative people are going back to film today and keeping a lot of that technique from being lost (not to mention maintaining film and developer industries), but I doubt I'll join them. I don't buy the argument that film photography is somehow more "pure" (whatever that means), or that digital photography is "cheating" because it doesn't require certain skills. I'm glad I have film experience, but also glad to leave it behind.
In the early 2000's, there was a lot of outright hostility toward digital photography from people who felt heavily invested in film technique. It's a relief that that silliness has by now pretty much disappeared, and now film is simply another photographic medium that you can choose to adopt (or not).
@mattblaze@federate.social my spouse was a film person until they got their first digital camera!