Old Tech

I like collecting old cameras. I've got a few at the moment and am constantly on the lookout for anything that looks antique and different.

The one on the left is actually an old film camera. The middle one is an old school Kodak and then the Pentax is what I used for my dark room photography class. Whether the two on the left work or not, I love having them, even if all they do is sit on a shelf and occasionally I take them off and play with them. Of course by "play with" I mean fiddle with, open a few times, take a couple pictures of, and then ultimately put them back on the shelf.

Though, if I had the ability to develop the film myself, "play with" would mean "run amuck and take lots of random pictures just to see how they turn out". Ever since my dad opened the film camera I've wanted to find the film and record something. I think it'd be awesome!

Anything antique immediately grabs my attention. I couldn't say why, I just get fascinated by how things used to look and operate before now. Especially with things like cameras. Computers have just gotten less clunky and cars have just gotten strange (look at the Kia Soul for crying out loud. It's a box. An ugly box that needs hamsters to advertise). Cameras though have gone through a plethora of changes over the years. With their accordion folding lenses to SLRs to point-and-shoot...the designs have been extraordinarily different as time has gone on.

Which is why I like collecting them. The other day I found a bunch of cameras (including an old Polaroid to boot!), in a silent auction. I probably won't win, but it was awesome to just stand there and look at them all. When I put in the bid, my brother asked me what I would pay and I said to him, "Well, you gotta remember, all I'm gonna do is have them sit on a shelf."

This hobby may wind up being nothing more than an expensive way of decorating.

Happy adventures everyone! In PA we're gonna be in the fifties for the rest of the week. You know what that means - archery time. My arms are gonna kill after this week!

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