Godfrey
Well-known member
I'm way too busy to see in photographic terms at the moment, and will be for another week and some. All the nattery conversations about doing the math, pixels this, Leica T that, ad nauseam... is beginning to drag on me. I spend most of what little time I have available to skim the internet right now looking at photos and dreaming about what I'll do with the cameras as soon as our annual conference is over.
I ponder equipment. Things shift...
My Sargasso Sea of Polaroids has expanded again. Two people sent me their long unused SX-70 Sonars ... One is broken, I don't know that it's worth sending it out for repair, the other seems to work well. The electronic flash for SX-70 (bought from Impossible, marketed by MINT) really expands the capabilities of the camera. I also obtained an SX-70 filter set from MINT—it includes a semi-fisheye attachment, close up lens, and ND/Yellow/Blue/Green filters. My discovery that with some care I can use the Impossible 600 film in the SX-70 also expands the camera's usefulness. A dozen and a half packs of fresh film await. These cameras are inspiring me for some reason. Along with the A7 and the E-M1.
I haven't touched the M9, the GXR, or even the X2 in a while. Even though I pulled the X2 out to use it, I'm not finding it inspiring me. I have the CL loaded and haven't clicked the shutter on the roll yet ... it's been three weeks. I still haven't run a roll of film through the 1964 Nikon F I had refurbished to as new. It's time for a big closet clean out, I think. Too much gear floating in the closet for comfort, I think.
Such it is, on it goes. Keep posting your photos: they keep me from being in the too much work doldrums.
Thanks!
G
I ponder equipment. Things shift...
My Sargasso Sea of Polaroids has expanded again. Two people sent me their long unused SX-70 Sonars ... One is broken, I don't know that it's worth sending it out for repair, the other seems to work well. The electronic flash for SX-70 (bought from Impossible, marketed by MINT) really expands the capabilities of the camera. I also obtained an SX-70 filter set from MINT—it includes a semi-fisheye attachment, close up lens, and ND/Yellow/Blue/Green filters. My discovery that with some care I can use the Impossible 600 film in the SX-70 also expands the camera's usefulness. A dozen and a half packs of fresh film await. These cameras are inspiring me for some reason. Along with the A7 and the E-M1.
I haven't touched the M9, the GXR, or even the X2 in a while. Even though I pulled the X2 out to use it, I'm not finding it inspiring me. I have the CL loaded and haven't clicked the shutter on the roll yet ... it's been three weeks. I still haven't run a roll of film through the 1964 Nikon F I had refurbished to as new. It's time for a big closet clean out, I think. Too much gear floating in the closet for comfort, I think.
Such it is, on it goes. Keep posting your photos: they keep me from being in the too much work doldrums.
Thanks!
G