You may have noticed that the last few blog posts have been
all about new (to me) vintage cameras. I didn’t suddenly run out and buy a
bunch of cameras to play with. The truth is I had gotten burned out on
constantly trying out new cameras a year or so ago and just recently got over
it.
I have actually had a couple of these cameras since last
year but was not inspired to “play” with them until now. When I am “testing” a new camera I am
understandably more concerned with the camera than the photograph so the
results of these shoots are interesting but not always inspiring. I tend to
shoot the same subjects or images over and over again so I can compare the
cameras capabilities to others I have shot with. If you have looked through my
blog posts you will see that I have done a fair amount of that kind of thing
but about a year ago I just got bored with shooting the same images all the
time and decided to make the photograph, rather than the camera my focus. At
that point I focused on just a couple cameras, mainly pinhole, and started trying
to make photographs that made me feel like I had accomplished something of
value.
I said all that to explain that after taking nearly a year
to pursue my interest in photographs rather than cameras I can now enjoy
playing with cameras again too and look forward to getting the film from these
latest ones back so I can see the results and share them with you.
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