fidget
Lemon magnet
For years, perhaps many years, my wife has looked on at my slowly growing collection of cameras "that-sometimes-work" with a sort of all-knowing but jaded smile.
She isn't into old cams and is not into photography other than making sure that I use my cameras "that-sometimes-work" to record the growing up and then the leaving (yipee!) of the kids to set up for themselves.
She just don't get monochrome.
My wife says she is fond of her digi, partly because it will record short movies and partly because she likes to persue me in movie mode....maybe I'll just offer a few expletives in future
When we were on holiday recently for a week in the Canaries, I took several hundred pictures. I think that she took about 10, quite a lot for her.
A fellow member of my photographic club recently gave me a smelly old box camera. They do that now and then, they think I want and will get great joy out of any old tat. In the hope that one day they will offer me a seriously nice piece, I always accept graciously.
I took it home and wondered if I poked out the lens would it make yet another fun pinhole camera, or should I just circumvent the short term storage and bin it.
My wife saw it and was very taken by it. I was shocked. She asked me to put a film in it for her, which I did. We went to the park and she shot off 8 frames and I developed and scanned them for her.
The pictures are genuinely awful. Any of my pinhole cameras could be regarded as having Tessar sharpness compared to this.
She loved the pictures!
Spotting a chance to get her on-side, I casually left out a folder which I had bought in error (duped). It is a 50's Kershaw King Penguin in mint condition. This the very simple cheap single shutter speed P&S of it's day. Not one for here, you know?
She hadn't seen it before (well, it doesn't do to let them know about ALL your purchases does it?...) and, bless my soul, she loves it. It does a much better job than the box cam in a holga-ish way. Now on her second film, I am a bit reluctant to show off my favourite folders in her presence in case she confiscates them!
What is happening?
If I didn't know that you just couldn't do it, I'd say that someone here is having me on.....
Anyway, better look out for a new poster soon
She isn't into old cams and is not into photography other than making sure that I use my cameras "that-sometimes-work" to record the growing up and then the leaving (yipee!) of the kids to set up for themselves.
She just don't get monochrome.
My wife says she is fond of her digi, partly because it will record short movies and partly because she likes to persue me in movie mode....maybe I'll just offer a few expletives in future
When we were on holiday recently for a week in the Canaries, I took several hundred pictures. I think that she took about 10, quite a lot for her. A fellow member of my photographic club recently gave me a smelly old box camera. They do that now and then, they think I want and will get great joy out of any old tat. In the hope that one day they will offer me a seriously nice piece, I always accept graciously.
I took it home and wondered if I poked out the lens would it make yet another fun pinhole camera, or should I just circumvent the short term storage and bin it.
My wife saw it and was very taken by it. I was shocked. She asked me to put a film in it for her, which I did. We went to the park and she shot off 8 frames and I developed and scanned them for her.
The pictures are genuinely awful. Any of my pinhole cameras could be regarded as having Tessar sharpness compared to this.
She loved the pictures!
Spotting a chance to get her on-side, I casually left out a folder which I had bought in error (duped). It is a 50's Kershaw King Penguin in mint condition. This the very simple cheap single shutter speed P&S of it's day. Not one for here, you know?
She hadn't seen it before (well, it doesn't do to let them know about ALL your purchases does it?...) and, bless my soul, she loves it. It does a much better job than the box cam in a holga-ish way. Now on her second film, I am a bit reluctant to show off my favourite folders in her presence in case she confiscates them!
What is happening?
If I didn't know that you just couldn't do it, I'd say that someone here is having me on.....
Anyway, better look out for a new poster soon
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Paddy C
Unused film collector
If it was my wife I would also think she was up to something or someone was in on a practical joke.
Whatever the case, you should use this golden window of opportunity to purchase more gear!!!
Whatever the case, you should use this golden window of opportunity to purchase more gear!!!
FallisPhoto
Veteran
Next step, an old Voigtlander Bessa; one of the older zone focusing ones, with actual zones: "portrait," "gruppe" and "landschaft" (portrait, group and landscape). Like this:
Wouldn't take a whole lot to make something like this look like a million bucks, and it gets her one step further away from point and shoot snapshot photography.
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