Analogue Magazine

22
analogue
FILM HAS ALW
FILM WAS
NEVER
DEAD
When I was a kid I used to like making my own toys
to play with, because my parents weren’t the type to
always buy me the latest toy that was around. Not that
I’m complaining, in fact, I’m grateful to them because it
made me more creative as an individual. Imaginations
were limitless and anything could be a toy to play with.
So I guess a few years back when I saw a shop selling
what seemed like a DIY camera kit, I immediately
wanted to have that sense of nostalgia again. Hence,
the first analogue camera I got was the Lomography
Konstruktor. Clipping the parts out of the plastic frame
and actually building my own camera, took me back to
the time where I built a Tamiya car in my late primary
WRITTEN &
SHOT BY
KHAIRUL ARSYAD
EDITED BY
DYLAN TAN
school years. And playing with the Konstruktor - that
got me into collecting analogue cameras.
I’m no professional photographer by any
means but what made me love film photography was
that, no matter how well you plan your shots or how
meticulous you checked the settings, the film won’t
always turn out one hundred percent the way you took
your picture. In the end, the film itself is the variable, or
rather the process in between you pressing that shutter
button and when you roll the film to the next frame,
that’s when the magic happens. Even processing of
the film might affect the photos in some way.
In the interest of finding out different kinds