This is the website of Werner Marx, presenting information on film photography using vintage cameras, in particular folding cameras of the fifties. I’m amateur photographer and photo enthusiast since my younger days. After having used various 35mm film cameras, I shifted to digital photography when DSLRs had become affordable. In 2017 I came across a medium format folding camera (Foinix) which had been produced in the fifties in my hometown Trier.

This camera was the starting point for examining the potential of vintage medium format film cameras (Agfa and Zeiss Ikon folders) in combination with modern 120 format roll film emulsions and the possibilities of current digital editing tools. The results of this kind of hybrid photography convinced me that film photography still is a most interesting alternative to digital photography. I like film grain, enjoy the haptics of great craftsmanship and the procedure of carefully adjusting and controlling the decisive photographic parameters.

Occasionally, I still use compact cameras: the Sony RX100, the Sigma DP2 Merrill, and also my Galaxy 7 smartphone. I like to discover and capture interesting compositions in my direct surroundings (particularly around the Hunsrück nature reserve and in my hometown Trier). I enjoy photography “as one might enjoy great music, a fine wine or a good book: reflectively, uncompetitively, as a fulfilment of something not easy to define” (Ivor Matanle: Collecting and Using Classic Cameras, Thames & Hudson, 2000).