fish1991222
Established
In Australia here Netflix doesn't have it...
Guth
Appreciative User
I had never heard of this movie but my wife just happened upon it earlier this week. After watching it for a while she flagged me down as she thought I might find it entertaining. (While I'm not a big movie guy, my wife knows that I used to be into photography and we both like Harris' acting). I'll admit that I found it entertaining enough to watch the rest of the way through.
I grew up with a fascination for cameras and photography starting very early on. I received my first camera as a birthday gift when I was in the fourth grade — that was 1971 and the camera was a Kodak Instamatic X15 (which I still have). Within a few years I worked my way up to a SLR and owned a few of them over time. But I decided that I wanted to go about things differently not long after my son was born. So in 2000 I ended up returning to black & white photography and I bought a Leica M6. I have some truly wonderful images from his childhood forever captured on film as a result. That alone was probably worth the investment I made. Later on after moving to Oregon I purchased a small Canon digital camera that I could stash in my pocket. While I truly appreciated the convenience that camera provided along with the ability to easily send the digital images to family and friends that we had become separated from, I eventually started to lose my interest in photography. My iPhone is the about the only camera I carry with me these days.
Still I hung on to the M6. I would get the camera out to exercise the shutter mechanism once or twice a year and ponder whether I should start using it again or get rid of it before finally tucking it back into storage once more. Yesterday I finally pulled the M6 out of storage to actually shoot some photos for the first time in a long, long while. Before my wife and I headed over to the coast for the day I stopped at the local camera store and bought some film and a battery. (The film that was in my camera bag expired ten years ago.) While the M6 still felt quite familiar, I'm guessing that it's going to take quite a bit of time and patience until I start to feel comfortable with it. But I am planning to stick with it and see if it helps to kickstart my enthusiasm for photography once again.
My apologies as this has been rather long winded of saying that in my case Kodachrome did provide that mental push that I was in need of. Not so much to pick up a camera (although it did exactly that), but more importantly to try revisiting photography as a creative pursuit. A bit cheesy? Perhaps. But I'm okay with that.
jarski
Veteran
guess one measure these days of how good a movie is, is that do you feel like taking a phone and check something else while watching it. think I checked my phone once while watching the Kodachrome, so not a bad movie at all :angel: