{"id":3241,"date":"2022-07-15T23:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T22:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=3241"},"modified":"2025-10-12T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:55:10","slug":"trying-film-photography-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/15\/trying-film-photography-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying film photography again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I finally visited the park that opened near my house in 2020 amidst COVID lockdown. It is a former golf course that has been rehabilitated as a green area. I carried a Nikon FG-20 camera with an unfinished roll of film on my walk and took pictures of the trees and wild grass that have grown all over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back at home, I pulled out old negatives that I had never bothered to scan until now. Going through the photos, I feel my interest in film photography being rekindled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t have pictures of the park because I am still waiting for delivery of new chemicals to develop the film. In the meantime, here are photos from over a decade ago that I scanned just today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"DIY<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\"Weston<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Farnborough<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I finally visited the park that opened near my house in 2020 amidst COVID lockdown. It is a former golf course that has been rehabilitated as a green area. I carried a Nikon FG-20 camera with an unfinished roll of film on my walk and took pictures of the trees and wild grass that have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-Qh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3826,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/27\/a-brief-appearance-of-the-nikon-fg-20\/","url_meta":{"origin":3241,"position":0},"title":"A brief appearance of the Nikon FG-20","author":"Eddy Young","date":"27 September 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Previously I wrote that the Nikon FG-20 is not a suitable camera for practising photography. 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