Past The City Limit Sign

[location | home, home on the range]

[have you had a violent moodswing today | tired]

[the sounds of | The gentle whirring of machine fans]

Back in November I said I would take some pictures with both my Nikon F and Minolta SRT-102. Today’s weather was very nice, so I did just that. I’ll develop and scan them (hopefully) later this week.

In the meantime, I have something like a 4 year backlog of entries written up in various documents. I’m working through said backlog now.

Ten Years Have Got Behind You

Recently, I’ve been trying to reconnect with the person I was twenty years ago. The me I liked, as it were.

I need to get back into the habit of regular blogging (I say for the nth time). With that, I may go back to the beginning of my blogging days. Yes. I mean DiaryLand. Obviously, I’ll cross-post, but there will be much lost in translation

I’ve got both of my LiveJournal accounts back under my control, and then there’s blogger. I know I started trying to move my Twitter musings over here too, but I don’t recall how that went.

I know I have a Tumblr and Instagram, and am considering using Tumblr again for my photos.  Although I hear Tumbr sucks because of AI something something.

Biggest drawback to Tumblr is that I cannot backdate posts and fill in the holes like I can on a typical blog platform.

Anyway, I decided to reach out to an old friend, and have been, much to their presumed annoyance, been keeping up via email. I’ve been reading actual books rather than ebooks or doomscrolling on the phone.

Idunno. I guess I should go clean some crap out of my car and get it reorganized.

I Can’t Decide

[location | home, home on the range]

[have you had a violent moodswing today | blah, bordering on depressed]

[the sounds of | The washing machine]

The title says it all, really.

I did a thing at work this week, and if it ends up where my boss thinks it is going to end up, he said I would have some serious freedom to advance quickly in ways that I wouldn’t normally think possible.

Is it bad that I just want my previous position with my previous people back?

Ambition? Screw that.

Although, I did finally figure out a decent way to get my old Location/Mood/Music lines from LJ to look here.

Trying To Remember Where I Left My Shoes

[the sounds of |Train True ~ Blue Oyster Cult]

Here we go again.

Does this begin the cycle where I claim to begin writing again, hold up my end of the bargain for a day or two or a week or two and then watch it die, or do I just do my thing and let it be what will be?

That, really is the question.

I look at life and find myself deeply unsatisfied.

Something I thought I’d never say…Work is fine. Home is miserable. I’ve thought about doing the things to change it, but at the same time, I now have other obligations, and doing what I think needs to be done does bad things to said obligations, which is not okay. I guess go back to the old die young plan is probably going to be the way it goes over because why not. Feelings, feelings are somewhat symptomatic of societal abrasions that conform electric static or something. And General Y. Carville. That one complicates things even more. Some days I think I’d rather go down that path, but at the same time, I don’t know that the gamble there would pay off.

All That You See

The 4th of the functional eBay cameras: A Nikon N6006 with a broken latch.

It works just fine with the addition of some tape.

 Again, with the good old 50mm lens from the FT.

 It does just fine. Probably won't use this one too much though. The tape is just too much to deal with when swapping film.

Everything Under The Sun Is In Tune, But The Sun Is Eclipsed By The Moon

 Managed to take some pictures of the eclipse today and not ruin my camera.

Winning!

Give The Past A Slip

Not really sure how to feel about the fact that everyone is acting like nothing happened. Despite everything she has had to say, it looks like we're potentially going back to the status quo?

Imperial March

[location | home]

[have you had a violent moodswing today | accomplished]

[the sounds of | Walk This Way ~ Aerosmith]

Today I went to the Children’s Museum to, among other things, take some photos.

Of the several cameras I took, my chrome (?) and black Nikon Nikkormat FTn was the most fun to use.

Given that the lighting inside the museum is hot garbage, I stuck with the Nikkor-H 28mm lens. The max aperture of f 3.5 doesn’t make it anywhere close to the fastest lens that I have for a Nikon, but for what I needed it for, it worked.

I also slapped a cheap Targus flash unit on the thing, but since the camera does not have a hot shoe, I snagged a cheap adapter from Amazon that mounts to the cold shoe and has a plug-in for the built-in sync ports.

Anyway, the camera:

I absolutely love the way the camera looks. I don’t think I’ve seen a bad looking Nikon SLR from the late ’60s, but given this one or the near-identical black one that I have, I’ll take this one any day.

Anyway, here are three photos from the Children’s Museum that I took with this camera:

It has a built in light meter. It doesn’t work well with an external flash unit, so I had to sort of wing it with the Indiana Jones picture, but I feel like the lighting managed to capture the mood of the exhibit perfectly.

This setup has been my go-to for manual 35mm for a few months now, and I expect this trend to continue.

All Along The Watchtower

Today I have taken out yet another camera from my "as is" eBay box.

A Nikon N2020. It was introduced in 1986 and is very much a product of it's time.

It's big. It's heavy. It's loud. It RUnS oN AAA BAtteRIeS! Which, for an SLR camera, is kind of a big deal for me. It is, I'm pretty sure, my only battery operated SLR camera.

Anyway, here is the camera:

 

 Here are the pictures from today:

 Note, there will be more pictures in a future post, this roll of film spans a few days.

Overall, I'm happy with the camera. I used my manual 50mm that came with the FT, and I think it was, overall, a good combination.  This is another camera that I'm looking forward to using.

Sweet Home Indiana

I started working through the box of the "as is" Nikon 35mms that I snagged last month.

I found that I really enjoyed using the N80, and I hope that it will go into semi-regular rotation in the future.  Admittedly, I'm more of a fan of semi-manual camera usage, but if I need to get some pictures taken the right way on film, I suspect that will become one of my go-to cameras for that.

Next up...The Nikon N70

 Much like theN80, it looks an awful lot like the D40x from the front.  The menu display on the top is a little wonky and took some getting used to.  I only used it in one of the auto modes, with the slightly broken 18-55 AI lens that I snagged for the D40x a while back, so that made my results fairly predictable.  After I use it a little more, I may throw a completely manual lens on it and see what it can do.

As for now, I went to a church and used a roll of film on a dreary December morning:

 Anyway, I will be using this one again as well.