So after a year and a half of procrastination have finally gone to pick up my camera from the shop. Seriously it's been over a year and a half that my camera has been with the repair guy. I love this camera, I "inherited' it from my mother. It's an old Pentax that has seen much of the world. It has traveled through some of the deepest regions in Africa, has made it way through Europe and parts of North America. It has been left on a roof of a car once, while my mother sped off and yet has still survived the passage of time. One of the things that I love about this camera is that it makes a wonderful rich clicking sound each time you snap a picture. I also love the fact that it is fully manual, as I have never enjoyed into taking pictures with the new automatic cameras [though do I love my old flatmates' digital one]. Perhaps it is because the newer cameras lack the noise or perhaps it is because I need to feel the cameras mechanism react as I depress the button, feel the grinding of the gears when I wind the film, and feel the vibrations as it slides the film over, ready for the next shot
Posted by munin at November 5, 2002 11:09 PM