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posted by tim caynes » Wednesday May 21, 2008 » Permalink
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oh dear. I just acquired all my dad's old camera gear. this is not a bad thing. I've hankered after some of it for the last 30 years. it is all well-travelled, well-used and well-cared-for and it all has levers and shutters and switches and ratchets and winders and release buttons and k-mounts and some of it has the option for 8mm or super8 and some of it even has svhs. in other words, its all old. and takes film. its not that I don't care for film, its just that I know its going to get to be very expensive. I already have an teeny old nikon em and a new lomo supersampler, but now I also have a chinon ce4, a minolta x-370, various scary-looking lenses, a chinon 872 autozoom super8 and a panasonic ms90, all of which are in perfect working order. which means there is absolutely no reason why I shouldn't take them out and take hundreds of picture of car parks and people's feet, as I am wont to do.
except I can't afford it. notwithstanding the fact that I just bought a new 2GB memory card duo pro stick thing and another new kodak easyshare for our eldest and that even as I write this I'm supposed to be revising a product finding specification, I just don't have the time or the money to pursue a meaningful foray into film. if previous history is anything to go by, I'll have to get prints plus digital scans for every roll I take which taking my current hit rate of 1 decent picture from about 50 taken (the digital scattergun effect) means I'll probably pay abut 20 quid for each shot I actually use for something, which will probably mean pinned to a corkboard or published in a blurb book for another 25 quid which only I will ever look at.
but I'm on holiday in scotland next week and the sun might shine. there's really no way I'm not going to at least try out them all at least once, meaning a couple of rolls of film, each, or a couple of super8 reels (don't get me started on the cost there), or some numerous hours of video, although I've never really been a fan of moving pictures of the family. I will, of course still be taking about 768 photos with the sony w1 when, during all of this, I should just be enjoying a holiday rather than documenting it somehow. and I've not yet mentioned that I might for the very first time take a laptop on holiday as its the only way to recharge walkmans and ipods without spending even more money on cigarette lighter chargers from ebay which I will leave in a youth hostel on the first night in newcastle.
oh, and I also got myself a gorillapod, so there'll undoubtedly be some time spent hanging from trees.
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