Oh this? This is me taking a photo with my 600mm #Sigma lens on the #Nikon #FM2 😂

Some note on this setup:
- Digital lenses on film cameras have no control over aperture blades
- this was a long exposure, but it was so windy that a tripod wasn't sturdy enough. Logo blocks and window sill got the job done.
- while shooting I had to keep my finger pressed on that shutter button.

🤞 that this wasn't a waste of film

This was my first camera. It was 2005. I was 24, just dropped out of college for the third time, and I was working at the local newspaper on their printing press. I was about to drop a forklift of garbage in the dumpster when I saw a big pile of darkroom equipment. I parked the forklift, and jumped in the dumpster, and salvaged everything i could. There were film prints from the 60s and 70s, half an enlarger, a bunch of filters and a pair of Nikon FM2 cameras. One was pretty much trashed, but the other needed a new battery and a solid cleaning.

After I got home from work that morning, I sorted everything out. I had a working camera with a pair of decent lenses. The label ring had fallen off this lens a long time ago, but it was still a crisp telephoto that didn't grind or stutter when I focused it. On the bottom, someone engraved the newspaper's name and phone number. Give 'em a call. Tell them I said so long, and thanks for all the fish.

I had never really done much photography. I took a cool photo of an amusement park once on a rangefinder, but that was really it. But this camera? It opened up something inside of me. I had no idea what I was doing, but within a few months, I was back in school and enrolled in every photography class the college had to offer.

#nikon #fm2 #slr #vintagecameras #dumpsterdiving

Nie trzeba będzie długo czekać na kolejne Front Mission. Remake dwójki nadchodzi i już nie mogę się doczekać! 😍

Autor: @podryban

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sometimes you lose focus…and that's okay

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film has a way of capturing things not as you envision them but as they should be

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