Because I'm a masochist...

[Stephanie Brim]

What really bites is that it seems like it's going to be a hard camera to get ahold of again if I do somehow screw this one up. 😀

 

[yossarian]

Oh yeah, and about 'going in too many different directions'. That's what keeps me interested in photography. When I'm going out to do something serious, the Canon P and Fed both go out the door with me. They are my staple cameras and I treat them as such. The things I buy for fun (these cameras, the box-o-cameras I got a while back, the Lex35) are just for that...fun. Some of them end up going out the door later on to other people who like cameras...others stay with me to be used by me. They are just my own way of keeping myself from getting out of the frame of mind I need to be in to do my own photography: "Ooooh...I wonder how *this* shot would look if taken with *this* camera and *this* camera on *this* film and *this* film..." You get the idea. I do what I do because I love photography and I'm still finding my way...and I have to find my own way.

I call them "Cheeseycams" and I have extensive experience with all types. They can
be very liberating. There was a big ugly one I got from Porter's and I gaffer-taped a
cheap fisheye adapter to it and shot TMax CN. When I machine printed it I added a
sepia look, and with the vignetting the resulting images look like authentic century-
old pictures. Much fun.

Hey, don't forget to pm your address to me (I forgot it) so I can get the 127 film to
you.

Fred

 

[Byuphoto]

and PM it to me so I can send the canon and some 35mm film