{"id":16,"date":"2026-03-23T10:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattagucci.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:24:10","slug":"the-very-first-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattagucci.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"The Very First Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I kinda got obsessed with the idea of medium format film. It started with wanting an anamorphic lens for my mirrorless camera. I wanted to jam more compression into my videos while retaining a wider field of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somewhere along the way I was sucked into the magic and retro of analog film photography and found out that you could buy cameras with gigantic “sensors” much larger than full-frame. Initially my heart was set on a Mamiya RB67<\/strong>. Fully mechanical, big 6×7 negative, all the retro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a lot of consideration I started looking around for it’s smaller sibling, the Mamiya 645<\/strong>. Handily there was an absolute mint one for sale in Hobart.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Very soon after I loaded up my first roll of 120 film, Kodak Gold 200<\/strong>, and went for a drive. Here is my first roll of analog film ever:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I got my scans back it was a rollercoaster of emotions. I almost nailed every exposure! I have light leaks! I have a lazy film counter that caused 2 photos to be taken off the roll! I really, really like the compression and sense of scale that medium format gives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had this roll developed and scanned with my local camera store. They did a great job. But I wanted to do it myself…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I kinda got obsessed with the idea of medium format film. It started with wanting an anamorphic lens for my mirrorless camera. I wanted to jam more compression into my videos while retaining a wider field of view. Somewhere along the way I was sucked into the magic and retro of analog film photography and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattagucci.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattagucci.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattagucci.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattagucci.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattagucci.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattagucci.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/mattagucci.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattagucci.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattagucci.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattagucci.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}