Announcing my new Website named Shoshin Guitarist As I type this I am in my basement office surrounded by the things I have enjoyed in my lifetime: cameras, Lincoln books, fishing equipment, and guitars. I am retired and I have no shortage of hobbies and pastimes for my new retired life. Since many of you…
We sometimes read about film camera bloggers “thinning the herd”. Accidentally, I “drowned” my herd. The Chicago heavy rains of July 3, 2023 solved that problem for me. Perhaps 30 of my cameras (and lenses) drowned in the flood. Soggy cameras don’t work well. What was lost? Easily 20 point and shoot cameras from garage…
Probably not. But maybe you’ll get lucky and purchase a Russian camera that was made on a “good day” in Russia by a craftsmen who took pride in their work instead of a worker simply making his daily camera quota. Soviet Union camera quality can be scary and irregular. When I was studying Russian, our…
Although I write about my cameras on this blog I also have a growing Flickr account. In about 3 years of collecting and using film cameras I have shot about 1500 – 2000 photos. My best film photos, all 175 of them, are now arranged on Flickr at Richard’s Favorites. This is what my Flickr…
Yesterday, September 14, 2013, in Des Plaines, IL, I began my Walgreens boycott. Will Walgreens New Film Development Policy Kill U.S. Photography? I strolled into the Des Plaines, IL Walgreens on Northwest Highway hoping to get a 35mm roll of film developed in an hour. I really wanted to see how much Walgreens had jacked…
Once a year Park Ridge, IL has a city-wide garage sale of perhaps 100 homes (plus unlisted sales). 20 Garage Sales – 3 Cameras In visiting about 20 garage sales I found just 3 cameras: Dirty 90’s Minolta – The owner went inside and brought a mostly plastic Minolta from the late 80’s or early…
She’s 50 years old and as pretty as the day she was made. Here’s hoping she photographs as good as she looks. Love at First Sight for the Canon Demi EE 28 When did I first see a Canon Demi? I think it was in one of my camera collector books. Plus, I’ve been thinking…
I was driving from Chicago’s north side to Lombard for a PMP study group (I had just passed the PMP test, hurray). It was a June Saturday in 2013. Garage Sale in Old Irving I saw a garage sale sign for 3800 N. Tripp. I thought, “Why not?”. It would just take ten minutes or…
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. I recently purchased a camera lot in Elmhurst, IL, that included a Wardflex camera. It’s a twin lens reflex camera that seems to be well made. The Craigslist ad had a photo of a brown case in the shape of a twin lens reflex. It looked something like the photo below….
When my Canon Powershot A570 IS drowned in the bottom of a Florida canoe in 1/3 inch of water (even in its case) it pushed me forward on a journey of camera collecting. You can see the damaged Canon A570 below with corrosion in brown towards bottom right of the black display. Canon Powershot A570…