Last week I was hit with this insane desire to get an old camera. I'm talking old school. I'm talking film. So instead of doing my homework I googled camera shops. Then I went on a frigid adventure to find this shop and get the deets on old cameras. Five minutes before I would've turned into a human popsicle I found it. I wandered inside and started asking questions. The woman working there started using terms and lingo that she assumed I knew. Well I didn't. I think she could tell I was the novice of all novices because she started to dumb it down for me. I left the shop to do some research but prepared to spend $100 on an old film camera. Like all responsible adults about to make a drastic financial decision, I called my mom first. She is a saint and told me she can give me
her old camera that she took on her mission to Hong Kong
30 years ago a number of years ago. At first I was skeptical. Did it have the right vintage look? Was it hipster enough? My dear mother reassured me with some pics of the beauty. It was a Canon AE-1. I was convinced. It was perfect. I wanted it. Bad.
Days after acquiring my new toy, some friends and I went to Vegas for a friend's mission homecoming. What a perfect maiden voyage for my new hipster camera right? So after giving the wonderfully illustrated Getting Started pamphlet a once over and arming myself with 4 rolls of cheap film that I picked up at CVS, I was ready.
So here are the photos from my first endeavor into film photography. Now you may see some shots that are blurry or mega dark. Don't go thinking that I had no idea what I was doing. All of these shots were meticulously composed and captured...Psych! Truth is I had no idea what I was doing.
I call these shots: Dark Knight Rising
These I call: The Transporter(s)
And these are titled: What the?!
Alternate title: Amateur Hour
Alright, some of them were actually decent. Here they are.
I call 'em: The Goods
So there you have it. My next adventure will be in B&W so stay tuned.
