Analog film photography and cameras

@MrSmyth: I keep going back to that Vivian Maier link - thank you so much for posting it. As well as the evident quality of the photos, there's a wonderful human feel to them, quiet engagement, the opposite of the detached/voyeuristic thing you sometimes get in street photography.

+1. I'd only caught up on this thread the other day, and I've also kept going back to her work since then. The pictures make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.

As well as what hoefla said, which I'd completely agree with, her use of contrast is amazing, often as a compositional tool, very inspiring for anyone who likes shooting black and white.

Her pictures of street kids remind me a bit of Helen Levitt.