For my analog experience, I chose to work with a disposable film camera. Prior to this week, I had never used a disposable camera. 

I have some photography experience from a class in high school and my interest in photography but I only worked with digital cameras. The two digital cameras that I am familiar with are the iphone camera and the Nikon D3100. I believe the camera on the iPhone 14 Pro is great. The iPhone camera allows the photographer to zoom in up to 15x. Additionally, the iPhone camera takes clear crisp pictures with minimal effort done by the photographer. I have my iphone camera settings with the grid and level on. This allows me to make sure that I am positioned correctly to create a photo that does not solely have the object in the center of the photo but rather in one-third of the image and the level ensures that the photo is straight. The Nikon D3100 camera also has the ability for the grid lines to be displayed on the screen. With both digital cameras, the photo shot can be seen and edited within seconds after being taken. It is important to note that digital cameras essentially allow for infinite photos to be captured while the iPhone may say that more storage is needed and the Nikon camera may require a new memory card, the camera itself still has the ability to take photos. 

I purchased the disposable camera from Walgreens. The film camera is a Kodak power flash disposable 800. This camera is a single use with the ability to only capture 27 images. On the body of the camera, it is labeled with directions on how to use it. The first time I went to take a picture I followed all the directions but when pressing the shot button I did not hear it go off. However, the only way to confirm that no picture was actually taken is to see the amount of pictures remaining. The amount still stated 27 so I did not do something correctly. For a moment I thought that I had bought a damaged camera. However, I figured out that I was not winding the camera all the way which hindered its ability to capture the shot. While using the disposable camera I found myself not worrying about how the photo came out as I could not view it right away, I just did my best to obtain my desired shot by how I saw the shot through the viewfinder. With each photo I took this week using the disposable camera, I tried to make sure that each picture was different because I valued that I am limited to a certain amount of photographs. 

This experience made me realize the beauty of the unknown. My analog experience allowed me to not obsess over the way that the shot came out, rather I just took the shot and will see how the pictures came out after the film is developed. The process of having to wait to receive the photos is a process that is not experienced with digital cameras. I learned that I enjoy the more authentic photo that is created using the disposable film camera. In a sense that, for most of my shots using the disposable camera I had to physically move closer to the object because I did not have a lens that could zoom like digital cameras can. As I compare my analog experience with that of my digital world, I do not think one is better than the other, but the analog version brings me to keeping the photograph simple.