{"id":12,"date":"2026-06-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.romanfink.com\/makani\/why-i-still-carry-a-film-camera\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:00:00","slug":"why-i-still-carry-a-film-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.romanfink.com\/makani\/why-i-still-carry-a-film-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I still carry a film camera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On every assignment there is an old twin-lens reflex in my bag next to the digital cameras. It shoots twelve frames per roll, and that is exactly why it is there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twelve frames make me slower. I look longer, wait for the gesture to finish, and often decide not to press the shutter at all. Many of my favourite digital pictures were taken right after I had put the film camera down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The waist-level finder makes people forget the camera. They look at me, not at the lens.<\/p>\n\n\n<cite>From a workshop Q&amp;A<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On every assignment there is an old twin-lens reflex in my bag next to the digital cameras. It shoots twelve frames per roll, and that is exactly why it is there. Twelve frames make me slower. I look longer, wait for the gesture to finish, and often decide not to press the shutter at all. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-film","tag-medium-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.romanfink.com\/makani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.romanfink.com\/makani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.romanfink.com\/makani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.romanfink.com\/makani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.romanfink.com\/makani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.romanfink.com\/makani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.romanfink.com\/makani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.romanfink.com\/makani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.romanfink.com\/makani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.romanfink.com\/makani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}