This post will be updated regularly, as photos taken by participants have different development and scanning time 😉

Sunday, May 23rd, 2021.

Photowalk [RE-] Connect

Here’s a little recap for those that couldn’t attend our ACA analog event: [Re-] connect an analog photo walk held on Sunday 23 of May. With all the Covid regulations I had to postpone analog event #5 in late January. Instead, in January I held a little zoom meeting with a short Kahoot quiz about analog photography and showed a nice video to inspire the people in the zoom meeting.

Fast forward to last weekend, the Dutch government finally loosen the restrictions a bit and we were allowed to get together with a maximum of 30 persons. I made the decision to not promote this photo walk on my Instagram too much. The reason being, I already have a WhatsApp group with a cool bunch of analog shooters and gambled there would be enough interest. I did however sent some DM’s to persons who missed out on the previous photo walks.

But, it’s going to rain

When you organize a photo walk you are always insecure about the weather, ergo which iso-film to bring with you and to shoot with. In the temporary app group for this photo walk, we had some pre-fun (concerns) about the weather, which camera to bring along etc. In my communication I stated I had the theme [Re-]Connect in mind, you know 80% chitchat and 20% shooting. And hopefully, inspire each other and see how others see a situation/subject.

False Start

At 10:45-11:00 everyone was at the meeting point I communicated and as always I started with a short introduction. Only this time a random guy had another plan and kept interrupting me and I was a bit off track. Luckily, Dick was so kind to get the guy separate from the group and walk with him for a personal tete-a-tete.

So with approximately 39 (from 49) people showing up, I divided the group in 2 by luck of the draw. For this purpose, I made a bunch of keychains with different quotes from different photographers. And everyone picked a keychain out of a bag. The persons who picked a keychain with a quote of one of my favorite photographer: Daido Moriyama, went with Jeroen (aka Amsterdamanalog). Jeroen, a fellow Mokum guy, was kind enough to act as a guide for the first 45 minutes. After which we meet up again in the next park (Frankendael park).

Take a digital to an analog party and you get issues

So yes I brought a digital gadget as well. I like to watch POV videos from around the world so I thought why not make one during the photo walk. Well, my GoPro had another thought, only recording sound and stopped recording video after 1.5 hours just a freezing image for the remaining 2 hours. (I will update this page with the edited video footage)

No more text, just a bunch of photos taken by participants

Camera Porn


One of the most important things for a proper analog photo walk is of course the camera overview photo. Everyone has to show his or her latest acquisition. So here’s just a quick list of analog cameras I spotted

  • Leica M2, M3, M7
  • Mamiya
  • Hasselblad
  • Nikon
  • Canon
    • including the Canon dream lens 50mm f/0.95
  • Minolta
  • Rolleicord / Rolleilflex
  • KMZ
  • Olympus pen
  • Exakta
  • Pentax 67 (3x)
  • and more (if you see yours and I forgot please put it in the comments or contact me)

And after photo walk, photo talk photos

Social Media Alert: Get those followers

Just a list of Instagram and flicker accounts of those who attend the photo walk:

ANALOG CLUB AMSTERDAM
ALESSIO JELLE MICHAEL
ANKAN JEROEN MICHAEL
ANNA JORN MIKE
ANNEMARIJE JOUKE NIALL
ASHWIN JULIA NUNO
DANIEL KENNY PATRICK
DICK LEVI RAUL
DMITRI MAARTEN REMI
GIGI MAARTEN TIM
JEAN CARLO MARTIN WESLEY