His Mind Is Not For Rent

I am looking to start a photography-centric blog, so I, naturally, went out and bought as much film as Meijer had in stock last night.


Today, I took off work for a bit and went for a walk in Central Park, and along a couple of nice places in Carmel, IN.  I had 3 cameras and 3 36 exposure rolls of Fuji 200 speed film.


I did a roll in my Nikon Nikkormat FS, Minolta SRT-101 and SRT-102.  I DID NOT, however, have my Nikon D40x digital camera with me so that I could set up the lenses correctly to account for the dreary, foggy day so I was literally eyeballing it with 3 cameras operating in completely mechanical mode. The Nikon doesn't have anything electrical in it at all, and the Minoltas use a battery exclusively for the light meter.  But said battery is mercury-based, so no longer available and I don't have anything else in the slot to sort of work with.


So, with that in mind, these pictures may or may not come out super great at all.  I haven't bought film for a very long time, and the last time I sent any off to be developed was August of 2017.  I have maybe 10 rolls of who knows what sitting around the house that I shot mostly in October of 2017. Also, the SRT-101 may have had a light leak...The back was not fully closed.  I'll find out next week, I guess.


Anyway, I realized something about my style today. With the digital camera I'm basically all over the place. Most of what I take comes out looking pretty good, with the occasional bit of junk.  I feel like I experience the adventure almost exclusively through the viewfinder.  Today with the 35mm cameras I was actually more engaged in my adventure even though it was for the sole purpose of using a roll of film in each camera.  Yes, I was taking pictures left, right, up and down (literally!), but I was focusing on my surroundings (pun was unintentional for once) and trying to get a feel for the world that I was trying to take photos of.  Those +/- 108 exposures took me longer to get through than any 108 exposures I have taken in any of the years since I got my D40x.  That is no bad thing!  I've gotten too swept up in the digital photography mindset.


In some ways my skills have improved, in some ways I have gotten lazy.  I've known that for years, but today was the first time I actually took note of it in any sort of meaningful way.


Anyway, I sent off the film today for processing.  I will patiently wait for the day it returns in it's developed form so I can scan it and start my series of "A roll with..." posts on both here and wherever my next blog ends up!

Finally It's Christmas

Several years ago I bought a Minolta SRT-101 35mm camera on craigslist for a very small number of dollars (probably not more than $25, but I cannot find the email to confirm).

It was my first "real" camera.  "Real" translates to SLR camera with interchangeable lenses and etc.  Honestly, I love this camera. It is criminal that I only took a handful of pictures of the actual camera and that I used a terrible cell phone camera to do it!  I will rectify that here though.

The Minolta SR-T 101 is a 35mm manual focus SLR camera with Through-The-Lens exposure metering - TTL for short, that was launched in 1966 by Minolta Camera Co. It stayed in production for ten years with only minor changes.

Based on what I can tell, my camera is a second generation model that came with the awesome MC Rokkor-PF 1:1.4 f=58mm lens.  There is not a whole I can write about it that would make an awful lot of sense to anyone, but I can say that the thing is durable!

I tripped while walking one day and the lens took the brunt of the fall.  The damage was cosmetic, and it will no longer accept any screw on filters (boo!) but it still takes great images!

Anyway, here is the camera now (dented lens and all)...Eight years after I bought it!  I haven't used it very much for the last several years, I'm thinking I'll go get a couple of packs of film and rectify that soon though!

This Old Cocaine, It Makes, Makes Me Sick

*Disclaimer*

*If the following makes any kind of coherent sense to you, I feel very sorry for you. Very sorry indeed*

There has been much in the way of weirdness as of late.

Far too much.

el President`e is my new hero.

Goodnight, Moon!

On an unrelated note. I am listening to a song that is forty-two minutes and fifty-nine seconds long. It is thus so far amazing!

I met a DJ who lived in seclusion. Reality and sobriety were her only delusions.

Anyway. People I never planned on hearing from again popping up out of the woodwork like nothing is the matter.

Also, I bought a camera!

A real camera!

An old camera!

It runs on film. And mercury batteries. That last part is sort of a problem, what with those things being illegal 'round these parts these days.

Robert Plant singing "For What It's Worth" is quite amusing, as well.

And now for random survey things:

The 20 First Things That Come To Mind Survey:

pirates!!!
Arby's

mouth
Coffee

joke
Cuthbert Allgood

cheese
Pepperjack

aunt fanny
Got nothing

song
Cocaine

allie revelino!!!
¿Que pasa?

black
Cheese

potato
Dan Quayle

tomato
Attack of the Killer

cookies
Subway

clumsy
Chicken

buzz cuts
Apples

jonas brothers
I've been to the year 3000

score!!!!
Forty-Two

brocer docer brocer docer brocer dac! :)
Broken record

spanish
el President`e

:)
c:\

d<_>b
How do you get that backwards "b"?

this survey :)
Amusing

Do not know what some of this says about me.

• Current Location:The Place of Residence
• Current Mood: exhausted
• Current Music:Naked & Famous ~ The Presidents Of The United States Of America