Nikon F3 – Page 2 – Front Porch Coffee

Graduation gift-money + selling math textbooks –> new old-camera owner and thank-you notes aplenty, and sad feelings of having betrayed my old standby math book.

I’ll miss you, oh antiquated 3rd edition Taylor and Mann calculus text.

Six important things she does:
1. accept 35mm film
2. aperture priority mode
3. meter light
4. time things (12 seconds, namely)
5. battle-mace duty in case somebody thinks they’d like have her, or other things
6. exposure lock

Six important things she doesn’t do:
1. shutter speed priority mode
2. automatic mode
3. auto focus
4. kill batteries (battery life measured in years of use…let’s see a dSLR do that)
5. exposure bracketing
6. tempt me to ruin moments by snapping off eighteen frames when one is perfect.

“Bess,” maybe?

(shot with my digital camera. odd)

It turns out that if you let color film sit around for 5 or 6 years, it makes for real neat vintage colors. Old film makes old-esque pictures, cool eh?

Coincidentally, pops gave me a handful of old film the other day, leftover from when he shot a friend’s wedding.

Nikon F3, Nikkor 50mm f1.4, and Fujicolor Super HQ 100.

I burned up the first roll just goofing around in the front and back yard; the second was the progress-keeper of project lets-paint-alicia-and-jon’s-house-while-jon’s-out-of-town (Alicia and Jon being my older siblings, one an “in-law”). I like shooting color, but it seems easier to say things with black and white shots. Different strokes for different days and lighting and things, I guess.

Beyond the nice ones here, most all of the shots on these two rolls were horizontal and I have no clue why.