mikeShriver » kodak gold 200 http://www.mikeshriver.com I have an opinion, and the internet needs to hear about it. Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:42:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Eyes: On Not Trusting the Computer http://www.mikeshriver.com/archive/2009/08/15/eyes-on-not-trusting-the-computer/ http://www.mikeshriver.com/archive/2009/08/15/eyes-on-not-trusting-the-computer/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:50:50 +0000 Mike Shriver http://www.mikeshriver.com/?p=216 The second camera I acquired recently, a fully-manual Fujica ST801, got it’s first roll back yesterday. I’m a little more impressed with the results of this roll. The Fujica is fully-manual so I have to spend a few moments with it before I can take any photos. It’s very intimate, and requires more patience than I have had to use in the past. The results were overall better than the AE-1, which reinforces a general distrust of things unnecessarily computerized.

Family Drinks

Cash

Family Craft

Pass the Salad

Janna and Cash

Travel Planning

The Canon also has a Macro feature that I probably won’t make as much use of as I could:

Drops

Flowers or Shit

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I ran a roll through the old Canon AE-1 that my dad brought up from Salt Lake. I’ve got a batch of expired (2002) Kodak Gold 200 that I intended to run through my ill-fated Smena2 (RIP), so I shot a test roll to get a feel for my new toy:

My Folly

Friends in the Park

Friends in the Park

Awkward Moments in Front of a Lens

Vintage

View of iFive

Aside from a lot of fingers in the frame, and a few under-exposed shots, there are a few keepers. It’s all too apparent that 3 years of shooting with shitty russian cameras has destroyed my ability to frame a shot, or set the exposure correctly. These cameras require a lot more attention than I’m used to.

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