The Konica has some film in it; that's the 'glove-box' camera, you know just in case I haven't taken one with me. lol. Gawd knows what may be on it.. that will be half the serendipitous surprise when get it souped!
The OM4 has a film in it.. its sat o the shelf in disgrace! I chucked a roll and some fresh batteries into it, for my daughter's school leaver's party oooh... two years ago now! Batteries went flat before the film ran out..... oh-no-not-a-effin-GAIN!.. switch to manual, remembered basic exposure, went to finish film, counter clicked ff the end.... Oh bugga.... either the film counter didn't reset when I put the film in, OR its not spooling.. could be the film has slipped, or that the film hasn't even been advancing, I REALLY am at my wits with that bludy camera and don't even want to look! ot much interested what might be on the film anyway.. so meh! I'll probably sort t one day!
OM10.. I actually like more than the four... and more, every time I use the ruddy four and modern mercury free batteries leave it a ruddy do-do! Its EMPTY! A roll of Kentmere B&W has been sat next to it for the last year waiting to go 'in' for me to have aother crack at the tri-chrome experiment... next to the Konika actually, retrieved fro the car glove box, about a year ago, before the car went to scrap, for the unobtanium of a 20p seal for the aster cylinder!
This actually has meant that I haven't gone 'done feux-tog-raffy' for a year or more... I am loath to try lugging the tripod about n the bike, and that's essential to finish the Trichrome experiment.. and I haven't bought aother car.... I have a classic Range-Rover, I had decided to FINSH and use rather than buy something else to stop me finishing it.... bludy Land-Rovers.. HINT dont fix'em! Fix something they just find three even more vexing problems to keep you scratching your head! After replaing a pair f rotten dampers, it resfused to start developing a bizare electrical gremlin that defies logic... I thik its been talking to the OM4!!!!
Both XA2's have film in them! The one the daughter nicked, appears to be 'full'.. and I just noticed it. Other I had just loaded at the end of a trip about two years ago, for photo-ops on the way home; but O/H's bludy guzzi popped its head gasket, AA man was unhelpful, so I had to tear home and try and sort out a half painted bike trailer to go get her..... NOT take snaps!
The Russian Brick AKA the Zenit, is empty; last used by daughter to dabble in film; subsequently used to show her things like 'shutter' and 'aperture' .. and besides, ruddy thing likes to give me paper cuts off its strap brakets! I would stick it n the tool box and use it as a hammer... b-u-t I have a peculiar affliction... sorry AFFECTION for the ruddy thing!
Sigma MK1.. my 'go-to' film camera, is empty! Was loaded with B&W, I finished off about a year ago; and left, as I had been expecting to go do a DoF exercise with the Daughter with it.
Pops Retinette? Empty.. mantle-piece piece! That one!
Minox C.. another mantelpiece piece... thnik it does actually have a cartridge i it though! As I recall I had loaded it, then every-one that spotted it, picked it up, opened it, closed it and wond it on without taking a pickture! So I just gave up on it, especially as the battery died!
Voiglander; my grandad's first camera. Another mantelpiece piece; put a film through it circa 1993, corrosion on the rollers scored it to bludgery, so ts sat as a display only ever since.
There's a christmas cracker/catalog gift 'plastic' panorama camera some-where; I put a rill through for the fun crca 2001... been empty ever since.
Ziess Ikonta.... is LOADED.. gawd knows what with; shows 3 in the window! I KEEP meaning to dig that roll of 120 out the fridge ad go use it.... b-u-t... never get round to it! Closest I got was five years ago when they had a "40's" event on over at the Battle line, and I thought it would be appropriate, but was vito'd by daughter!
Cant think of any more knocking about OTMH....
FILM: there's half a dozen rolls of ood greek olympic kodak knocking about, I bought about 5 years ago, for daughter to dabble with; but most sat the fridge! Comes out rather green. Not a nice emulsion. There's three or four rolls of Kentmere B&W knocking about, that I got again, for Daughter to try Home dev, and inspired the Tri-Chrome experiment as a good way to 'waste' frames shootng three frames of the same subject at each shot, to get something to soup for her! There's a roll of Poudland vista waiting for something deservant of it; and a few 'dregs' that have been left in the fridge from where I bought more than I needed for an event.
Using them? Yeah, well, somewhat lazour fair; I Dont feel the need to go take photo's just for the sake of any-more!! I have enough photo's I took for that reason, and most of them really dot interest me very much any more; The Trichrome experiment is a bit of a skew; its feux-tog-raffy for its own sake, but 'fun' trying to do something different; the DoF exercise I'd planed to do with daughter similar; the rest? More a case of am I going to do 'something'.. then, does that 'something' warrant taking a camera, then does that something warrant taking a camera AND is a film camera the more appropriate for that event.. like the 40's event I was vito' fro takng the Ikonta to, lol! XA in my pocket or the Konica in the glove box are there for the "oooh! I wish I'd brought a camera!" moments, like when I spotted a 1950's BW motorbike taking O./H to work one day, after discussing a similar old BMW shot on film on here the day before! A-N-D I have twenty years worth of film photo's to work through the scanner to get H/Q digital copies of them.... do I REALLY need to go take more, right at this moment in time, JUST to play with cameras?... trying to kill that elektrikal gremlin in the range-rover is probably more of a imperative.. but I am lacking the mpetus to even go try that... well, after six attempts and a dent i the drive from jumping up and down in frustration! Lol!
XA2 will go in my pocket, when I go anywhere; I will probably get round to tackling the Trichrome exp again; I will probably take one of the film cameras, likely the Sigma n preference to the Electrc-Picture-Maker, unless there's good reason for the EPM... b-u-t.. really don't feel much compulsion to go out and FIND things purely to take photo's of; cameras are my companion in travails, not my reason....
