About a month ago I went to a garage sale and bought a nice stack of books (the hardcover kind, ones I'm not able to afford new 
), when I stumbled across a set of photo equipment. It consisted of a 30-year-old Fujica manual focus camera, a 50mm lens, a 135mm lens, and a 200mm lens..as well as one of those big flash thingies that attach to the top of the camera--all for a grand total of...$10!! :Q I'd never been into photography really, except for this $30 point and shoot camera, which only works well if you're in a sunfilled desert like location and when everything is completely, and I mean COMPLETELY at a still stance.
So I took the camera home, and realized I needed a battery and some film for it. D'oh, so I went over to WalMart, and bought a 6 volt battery as well as some film. With those two puchases I was up to the price that I paid for the camera already! I then went back home, loaded the battery in, and proceeded to attempt to load the film. Now this camera was made about a decade before I was born, and required a bit more expertise to get it up and running than the disposable ones I usually take on trips and such
Anyway, to make a long story short, I ended up going out and taking 24 shots at a local regional park and various other places on what I thought was correctly loaded roll of film :disgust: I then proceeded to do what the guy who sold me the camera told me to, which was to push the botttom gray button thingie opposite the tripod holder stand thingie, and unwind the film. It wouldn't unwind though, for some reason, I could tell since it just wound freely, as if no film was in there That was when I decided to open up and see what happened. Apparently I had wound the film too much or something after snapping, causing the film to rip from the cartridge. Bah I thought, there goes $5 and an hours wasted time. I had some nice shots of little duckies too
Tomorrow then I'll go get another roll, and hopefully I'll have better luck next time. Maybe the kind people of WalMart can help me get started. Or else, I'll keep loading more film until it works--of course by then cameras will be replaced by new super capture devices..or something. Oh well, at least I loaded the battery correctly
So does anyone do photography? If so, what sorts of stuff do you shoot? And where can I find good deals on smaller lenses..I'm looking for something below 20mm or so for closeups of my doggie
I love these smileys here by the way!
), when I stumbled across a set of photo equipment. It consisted of a 30-year-old Fujica manual focus camera, a 50mm lens, a 135mm lens, and a 200mm lens..as well as one of those big flash thingies that attach to the top of the camera--all for a grand total of...$10!! :Q I'd never been into photography really, except for this $30 point and shoot camera, which only works well if you're in a sunfilled desert like location and when everything is completely, and I mean COMPLETELY at a still stance. So I took the camera home, and realized I needed a battery and some film for it. D'oh, so I went over to WalMart, and bought a 6 volt battery as well as some film. With those two puchases I was up to the price that I paid for the camera already!
I then went back home, loaded the battery in, and proceeded to attempt to load the film. Now this camera was made about a decade before I was born, and required a bit more expertise to get it up and running than the disposable ones I usually take on trips and such Anyway, to make a long story short, I ended up going out and taking 24 shots at a local regional park and various other places on what I thought was correctly loaded roll of film :disgust: I then proceeded to do what the guy who sold me the camera told me to, which was to push the botttom gray button thingie opposite the tripod holder stand thingie, and unwind the film. It wouldn't unwind though, for some reason, I could tell since it just wound freely, as if no film was in there
That was when I decided to open up and see what happened. Apparently I had wound the film too much or something after snapping, causing the film to rip from the cartridge. Bah I thought, there goes $5 and an hours wasted time. I had some nice shots of little duckies too Tomorrow then I'll go get another roll, and hopefully I'll have better luck next time. Maybe the kind people of WalMart can help me get started. Or else, I'll keep loading more film until it works--of course by then cameras will be replaced by new super capture devices..or something. Oh well, at least I loaded the battery correctly
So does anyone do photography? If so, what sorts of stuff do you shoot? And where can I find good deals on smaller lenses..I'm looking for something below 20mm or so for closeups of my doggie
I love these smileys here by the way!
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