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<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
I WANT TO BREAK FREE! I WANT TO SEE<br />
PLACES - WANT TO TAKE PHOTOS. I HAVE<br />
WRAPPED UP 6 CAMERAS AND <strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong>,<br />
I HAVE CHUCKED MY JOB! I DRIVE OFF. ONE<br />
MONTH ACROSS <strong>GERMANY</strong>. WHY <strong>GERMANY</strong>?<br />
BECAUSE YOU OFTEN WANT TO SEE THE<br />
WORLD AND ON THE OTHER HAND DONT<br />
EVEN KNOW YOUR OWN COUNTRY. 3500 KM,<br />
SPENDING THE NIGHTS IN YOUTH HOSTELS.<br />
From lomo to Schneider-Kreuznach. From 0 up to 3000 metres.<br />
From the fish market to the beer garden. All across germany.<br />
With 35mm, medium format and large format cameras.<br />
In the luggage well stowed away <strong>60</strong> films are waiting for the light<br />
of the world to see.<br />
TYRE PRESSURE CHECKED - OFF IT GOES!
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
WHY?<br />
Because the time has come. Because I was waiting for a long time to get out from<br />
that old nine to five and for to see my whole country. But first of all to take photos!<br />
And I am able to do this when travelling all alone. None must wait for me when climbing<br />
up a hill with a big and heavy camera comes to my mind. I cant and wont expect<br />
that from anybody.<br />
Germany - a photographers dream?<br />
Of course many dream about the wide and wild sceneries of New Zealand or Africa.<br />
However also Germany offers many unique motives you can find nowhere else in the<br />
world. UNESCO gave nearly 40 of them the title World cultural heritage for a reason.<br />
I am curious.<br />
And because right now, after 10 years in the advertisement industry I am going to<br />
break a new path - its now or never!
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
THE ROUTE:<br />
My route is oriented roughly to the UNESCO world cultural<br />
heritage sites in germany. Started with Bremen in the north it<br />
goes by the Teutoburger Wald to Cologne. Again out of the<br />
city along the Rhine to Koblenz. Over Trier, along the Saar - a<br />
short excursion to France then the Rhine Falls to see that river<br />
again...., however ... I dont want to reveal everything yet!<br />
To summarise the most important points:<br />
HAMBURG<br />
RÜGEN<br />
3500 km<br />
30 days<br />
6 cameras<br />
<strong>60</strong> films<br />
1 man<br />
KÖLN<br />
EISENACH<br />
Of course you can follow my location<br />
or read in the travelling diary:<br />
<strong>60</strong> films germany auf facebook<br />
SAARBRÜCKEN<br />
NÜRNBERG<br />
FÜSSEN
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
THE CAMERAS:<br />
„Have you bought another camera again?“ Certainly many have heard ings like this.<br />
And thus many photographic apparatuses gather with the time in my cupboards.<br />
However, I want to collect nothing what I do not use! And therefore these following<br />
darlings will come with me on my big journey:<br />
• Canon EOS 30V<br />
• Leicaflex SL<br />
• Hasselblad 500 c/m<br />
• Mamiya RB67<br />
• TOYO VIEW 45G<br />
... and simply because it was never more easy and cheaper<br />
to take funny panoramic pictures:<br />
• Lomo Spinner 3<strong>60</strong>
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
LAICAFLEX SL<br />
This camera reminds me of the SLR camera I started with taking<br />
photos, the Canon FTB. Except the Laicaflex is heavier and<br />
seems to be built at last forever.<br />
You wont find an automatic helpers on this camera.<br />
And that is fine. BACK TO THE ROOTS!<br />
year: 1970<br />
format: 135<br />
shutter speeds: 1 - 1/2000 seconds +B<br />
metering:<br />
full-aperture metering<br />
weight:<br />
750 g<br />
special feature: needs 625 PX battery<br />
lens:<br />
Summicron_R 50mm f2.0 Typ III
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
CANON EOS 30V<br />
My second 35mm SLR is the complete opposite to the<br />
Laicaflex SL. This camera is state of the art. At least in the<br />
range of the analogue EOS cameras. It was the last model<br />
that Canon produced. For me the 30 V with its many features<br />
like the ocular-controlled autofocus is the ideal companion if<br />
you want to take photos fast and spontaneously.<br />
year: 2006<br />
format: 135<br />
shutter speeds: 30 - 1/4000 seconds +B<br />
Belichtungsmessung:<br />
weight:<br />
frame rate:<br />
special features:<br />
lenses:<br />
TTL full-aperture metering:<br />
- 35-Zone-multi field<br />
- spot metering (± 10%)<br />
- center balanced metering<br />
585 g<br />
4 fps<br />
- eye controlled autofocus<br />
- last produced analogue<br />
Canon SLR-camera<br />
- Canon EF 50mm f1.8 II<br />
- Lensbaby Composer Pro
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
HASSELBLAD 500 C/M<br />
What do I have to say about this legend? Generations of<br />
photographers have worked with this camera.<br />
One evening i stood in the Hamburg Hafencity with a large<br />
format camera. I got into a conversation and an older photographer<br />
told me about his cameras from the „good old times“.<br />
To cut a long story short ... one week later it was mine!<br />
year: 1972<br />
format: 120<br />
filmbacks: A12, 6x6 + Polaroid 100<br />
weight:<br />
1700 g<br />
lens:<br />
Distagon 50mm f4 silver<br />
1 - 1/500 s
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
MAMIYA RB 67<br />
This camera monster is neither extraordinary beautyful nor<br />
especially practical. But thats exactly what i love about this big<br />
big toy. I always got the feeling a good photo with this camera<br />
has to be work. And this makes the picture, at least for me,<br />
even more valuable.<br />
year: 1974-1990<br />
format: 120<br />
filmbacks: 6x7 + 4,5x6 + Polaroid 100<br />
weight:<br />
2700 g<br />
lenses:<br />
Mamiya Sekor-C, 1 - 1/400s + T<br />
- 50mm f4.5<br />
- 90mm f3.8<br />
- 127mm f3.8<br />
- 250mm f4.5
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
TOYO VIEW 45G<br />
Why would anybody take something that heavy and big camera<br />
on a trip? Because he is crazy and want to take a camera especially<br />
for architecture with boundless adjusting possibilities!<br />
Because the prices for colour sheet film are quite high I will also<br />
use a roll film back in the format 6x9. I‘m looking forward to<br />
disappear under the black cloth again!<br />
year: 1977?<br />
format: 4x5“<br />
filmbacks: 4x5“ + 4,5x6 + Polaroid 100<br />
weight:<br />
5500 g<br />
Objektive: coming soon ...
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
LOMO SPINNER 3<strong>60</strong><br />
Absolute toy! But the best camera to take 3<strong>60</strong> panoramic<br />
photos except stitching single frames or a very expensive<br />
special camera.<br />
You can choose between two pinhole apertures, f8 and f16.<br />
The camera is thought for ISO 400 films. Simply hold the<br />
spinner up in the air, drag the ring, let it go and the photo is<br />
finished.<br />
- 8 pictures on a standart 35mm film<br />
- Manual long time exposure<br />
- Sun/clouds Apertures‚<br />
„sun“ (f/16) und „clouds‘‘ (f/8)
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
THE <strong>FILMS</strong>:<br />
I will pack everything in the colour film segment what i can find new in stores: Kodak<br />
portra and ektar, Fuji reala, 400H and velvia. They still join to it, unfortunately they did<br />
not produce it anymore, 64 t slide films of Kodak and Fuji as well as tungsten print<br />
film Fuji NPL 1<strong>60</strong>. As special „exotics“ are also allowed to come along lomofilme lomochrome<br />
purple and torquise. It is well rounded with the extremely high-resolution<br />
bw film cms20 from adox and bw-infraredfilm rollei ir400.<br />
• KODAK PORTRA 400<br />
• KODAK EKTAR 100<br />
• KODAK EKTACHROME 64T<br />
• FUJI REALA 100<br />
• FUJI PRO 400H<br />
• FUJI PRO NPL 1<strong>60</strong><br />
• FUJI FUJICHROME 64T<br />
• FUJI VELVIA 100<br />
• ROLLEI IR 400<br />
• ADOX CMS 20<br />
• LOMO LOMOCHROME PURPLE<br />
• LOMO LOMOCHROME TURQUOISE<br />
• FUJI INSTANT-FILM FP-100C
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
DIE ÜBERNACHTUNGEN:<br />
Who has already made a 30-day vacation? This could become expensive!<br />
Therefore, I have resolved in addition to choose a kind of the accommodation which<br />
are convincing with more than 500 locations in whole Germany, fair prices and a very<br />
high-class standard: Youth hostels!<br />
I have performed, as an old pacifist, my alternative service in a youth hostel. So I know<br />
to not missunderstand the word youth in youthhostel. Travellers at every age can find<br />
a nice place for the night.<br />
Who is once a member (approx. 30€. in the year) an overnight stay with breakfast<br />
costs about 25€.<br />
I had no problem to find the suitable hostels because all along my route really everywhere<br />
a hostel is in the immediate surroundings. And of course I will call in on my<br />
tour also in „my“ old youth-hostel... already determines 11 years .... I become old!
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY<br />
ME:<br />
I am Matthias Bittner. I live in my hometown Hamburg and I am 30 years old. The<br />
last ten years I worked as a graphic designer and art-director in the advertisement<br />
industry. There is always something to photograph when working on ads that I came<br />
in touch with photography. I was on fire when i get my handy on daddys old SLR<br />
camera. Working with it means to think and adjust all the time. And in a magic kind<br />
of way a picture landed on film - fascinating! I love it to experiment with different<br />
cameras and films enjoy the slow working process in the contrast to the fast and busy<br />
digital world.<br />
Since that I used every camera i can get my hands on and I was able to use those<br />
experiences for a lot of shooting in my former job.<br />
Now it is time to take all of that knowledge and bring it to the mother of all photo tours.
<strong>60</strong> <strong>FILMS</strong><br />
<strong>GERMANY</strong><br />
AN ANALOGUE JOURNEY
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