[pandoraou812]

I was ready for a stray bird or dog lol. Glad you found it & may you take many beautiful pics!

[dragnet2]

Have fun with it, then when you want to get serious, get a Canon digital camera.

[Erasmus]

My first cam was an Ansco Readyflash. Before long, I was using Dad's Argus C3. After his passing, we traded it in for a Minolta A5 rangefinder, which was stolen a couple years later.

Then my brother and I went in on the first of two Canon SLRs, which I later sold and switched to a pair of nice Oly OM2ns and a Mamiya TLR. They were stolen a couple years later.

Time passed. Finally bought my first Canon film EOS (I had met their manager of design). Now it's two film EOSes and two digital EOSes later. Fortunately, I was able to sell or give away all of these, except for the one I use today.

Now I'm getting 7D/60D fever. Of course, I need to get out more--to the Gulf or Atlantic coasts--on pixpeditions to try to justify the investment in what I already have. We'll see what happens.

≤}B^)

[1rudeboy]

Solid. Remind me to ask you about 35mm film sometime.

[FlyVet]

Film cameras can be picked up for a song now. I bought a Minolta Weathermatic Dual 35mm in the early 90's for $200. I still have it, works fine. Nice to have for inclement weather.

They're going on EBay for $20.

[Vendome]

How’d you get it sit still so long?

[Grammy]

((snicker))

riiiight. You sound like my husband.

8-)

Good find.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Camera porn !

[dixiechick2000]

What a beauty!

I hope you know how to feed and care for it properly. ;o)

[Bellflower]

I find that film retains mystery, mood and romance that I like to capture whereas digital just doesn’t cut it. It is good for clear pictures but more often than not leaves out the intangible.

[raybbr]

I still have my Nikon FM that I bought in '79. Still takes great pics but I can't afford the film let alone developing and printing.

Now I have two Kodak super zooms. They really are good cameras and a Nikon D40 and a D5000. Both of the take good pictures too.

[Condor51]

Dang did you ever get lucky. It reminds me of a guy I once worked with.

Back in the late 70's early 80's he picked up from an older neighbor lady a Nikon F and about 5 Nikkor Lens (fisheye to tele) for $25.00. I was green with envy.₍₁₎

But I'm afraid my wife will do that with my Nikon FE and my Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic (still clicking away), and my bag of lens & 'stuff' when I 'go'. To her it's all 'clutter'.

(1) He was pretty nice though. He let me use his lens for my Nikon. I had one of his, a 24mm(?) wide angle for over a month.

Ps: Thanks to yopur wonderful photos you got me seriously looking at Digitals now. In a couple months I will have a Nikon DSLR (two more checks paychecks). I'm finding good sales prices (B&H Photo for one) and I am now determined :-)

I was going to buy a gun first, but Mossbergs & .45 ACPs will always be there

[Kimmers]

You always manage to bring a smile to face and happy to my life.......excellent find....I trust you have a source for film and its development......

I hope you are feeling well

[r9etb]

Very nice! I have an old Minolta (early ‘70s vintage) — all manual — that I dearly loved.... Finally gave into digital so it doesn’t get used anymore, but what a great camera.

[ArrogantBustard]

Once upon a time, we carefully saved our money and paid hundreds of dollars for those things.

Back then, a gallon of gasoline sold at retail for much less than $1.00 ...

Mine was (and is; yes, it still works) a Canon AE1.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Excellent find. I still have my 1973 Nikon F to lug around when I’m feeling retro, though I don’t shoot much film anymore since I got my D300 a few years back. When I do, it’s with a beautiful 1955 Ricoflex TLR on Ilford 200, that I also found at a local recycle shop and talked the owner down to 10,000 yen.

Gonna pimp my shit and let y’all have a look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbone