Finally got round to getting the pics developed from the last little session with that weird gizmo that folk tell me is a film camera. (Can’t see me putting up with this malarkey for too long. Just happen to have a nice dark little cupboard under the stairs. Hmm.)
Anyway, along with the camera came three lenses. All of which looked a bit iffy so obvious first thing to do is check they all sort of work like sort of ok.
Done the first two, and so finally it was the turn of the last, a Tokina f/4-5.6 70-210mm, about which I was least optimistic. Notwithstanding the fact that the second of the lenses was actually already broken. Well, the name plate ring thingie at the front of the lens was secured by a filter… remove the filter and the front fell off (hey Darren… if you’re reading this I hope you’re now cracking up! For everyone else… that’s a sort of private joke but click the link and you might just get it. Heh heh).
Anyway, secure the name thing again with the filter and the lens seemed to function fine. Spot of superglue called for methinks.
But this present lens, well, I wasn’t at all hopeful. Consequently the “testing” wasn’t anywhere near as rigorous as it could (or maybe should) have been.
Basically just fire off a few pics inside my favourite watering hole… crap lighting, hand-held, and wasn’t really bothering too much at all.
Surprise surprise the thing actually works. Which I truly didn’t expect given the state it was in when it dropped into my grubby little mitts.
Which I s’pose means its about time I started playing with this curious excuse for a camera for real. And started doing some proper tests.
Oh dear. It doesn’t bode well at all.
You must have loved useing film. Lol. Its so much hard once you become use to a digital camera, because you can take a picture and then adjust the exposure to get the lighting of your photograph correct.
I love the picture of the counter. I don’t know why, but I just do.
Hi Maggie (what the hell’s the smiley for a huge smile and wave?)
Using film’s all a bit of a learning curve for me (I say “bit”… I actually mean huge) but in a perverse sort of way I’m quite pleased I’m giving it a try.
There’s been a bit of a blogpost brewing in the back of my mind for the past few weeks about using it, but its not quite fully crystallised yet sorta thing.
And I suspect I need to have a few more sessions first as well.
Great.
He chucked the whole film camera thing years ago and is now interested in giving it all a whirl again.
Humph.
By the way, are you scanning the photographs yourself (after having them developed elsewhere) or receiving a CD-ROM of the pics from the developer?
Well, at the mo’ I’m outsourcing the developing and scanning… but a scanner’s suddenly shot right to the top of my wish list for some unfathomable reason.
And, um… well, best not say too much more just yet. Heh heh
As for chucking the film stuff years ago, you’re absolutely right of course.
Thing is, at that time, I never managed to get my head around film speed, apertures, and all the rest of the more techie type stuff. Didn’t have the patience or the time really (hell, I was running a business then that somehow consumed 18-hour days six days a week… at the very least!).
Didn’t stop me from investing oodles in pro camera kit mind… only to discover I really didn’t have a clue what I was doing and couldn’t therefore use the damn stuff “effectively” (for which read start earning with it straight away). So I gave it all away to a mate who, hopefully, got more pleasure from it than did I.
But you can betcha I really regret that now. Like really regret it!