I never got to grips with exposing and capturing photos back when I did have my Pentax but now I have a better understanding I am itching to delve into some film capturing, as I could put it.
In a conversation with my cross atlantic photography friend Ryan Conners, we came up with a photo challenge that would accompany my newly (actually, lets say freshly) found excitement to use and feel the emotion of shooting with a camera like....
...this, a 1975 Nikkormat FT2.
So I just have to acquire one now.
A fair few are around on eBay, so on to my watch list they go and I'll keep you informed as to which I end up winning (if any, although I hope it doesn't come to a week later and I've not won a single auction). There is even a Nikon F on for a 'reasonable' value, the first Nikon SLR that was released at the same time as the equivalent Canonflex: Genesis in the world of Single Lens Reflex cameras.
The cool factor involved in owning one of these (ok, just the Nikon one hehe) will be fabulous! Owning genesis would be great so please cross your fingers that the eBay auction doesn't go through the roof in the next two days please or I may end up having to be content with owning a Genesis CD instead.
... and that would be a disaster!
As for the Photo Challenge between myself and Ryan? Well you'll have to wait and see but it should be a lot of fun and will no doubt turn out to be very competitive ;)
Check out the next post about the challenge here.
See you anon!
Chris
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