The answer my fellow fans is yes.
... and that's all for now.. Peace!
I kid i kid!..
OK now that its been so long and I've lost my entire fan base ( 3 people.. my mom being one of them) I don't have to censor my shit!
Actually I never really went crazy on here with curse words or blabbing about politics i knew nothing about.. It mainly just focused on things that interested me. A way I look at the world through words, photos, and the occasional video.
So anyways a while ago I posted up a photo of a camera I was searching for called a Polaroid sx-70. I wrote about how I didn't want to just buy one off eBay for a ridiculous price, but how i hoped to stumble upon one at a thrift store or possibly garage sale. Anyways within a month or 2 of posting, I finally found one At a goodwill store nearby.
WEll since then I have found 4:
Now I really have no need for all of those cameras.. but I dunno. I guess the collector in me hasn't left yet. Even tho Polaroid no longer makes the film .. which I'm not gonna get into. I hate when i type in "Polaroid" in Google and there are 40000 blogs complaining about how they don't make film for there old cameras. Look people times have changed. We used to be able to walk into mostly any store and find shelves stocked with a wide variety of at least 35mm sometimes 120 film. That no longer happens. Now all we see are hanging memory cards that can fit 6-trillion images. If its a true hobby of yours then you know you simply just have to adapt.
More recently I have become semi picky on the cameras I look for. I used to buy just about anything that looked cool to stock my case. Here I am.. 3 years later.. prolly close to ehhh 50 cameras maybe more? No room to store em..and about ready to give the ones i DGAF about away.
That's not to say I dont spend most of my Mondays rummaging thru people's old shit in the ghetto-ist of areas ( aka the best).
Lately ive been pretty interested in 35mm "point and shoot" or " rangefinder" cameras.. Or really any camera I see used on on of the many blogs i frequent.
Mijonju talks about a Fujica M1 that showed some interesting photos in it. So I began looking for one... but gave up on it after about 3 months.
This last sunday I was in ventura with my dad and his friend and we wandered into some local Thrift stores. To my surprise I found a Fujica MF:
.. for a wopping $1.95.. pretty jazzed. The MF i believe is the same model as the M1 or MA-1 just with a flash built in. So I went to the 99cent store and got a test roll of film which is in it as we speak. Check back for the fotos at a later date.
Oh shit.. also i dropped off a roll of film from my new Holga 135bc which was an x-mas gift from a co-worker.. so im excited to see the images from that....as well as the expired ektachrome images from my favorite and newly painted Ansco Sprite:
Ok ok ok.. Anyways Since i was able to find a SX-70 ( or 4) after writing that i wanted one on this blog.. i figure i might as well do it again.
I will call this the " i want" portion.... for things we "want" are rarely what we need.
Kyocera T Proof:
or Yashica T4 :
Olympus MJU:
Contax t2 and t3 ( basically anything contax with a Zeiss lens)
theres prolly some new camera I'll want tomorrow as well..
P.s. I hope to find those ( fat chance.. i know) at a thrift store or something cheap.. I guess im anti paying retail ( poor).. bahah.. till next time..
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