Good: I attended an amazing classical guitar recital earlier
(the brother of my bandmate/ex-housemate, on a whirwhind US
tour of grad schools he's applying to (so we're talking
masters-degree level guitarist here).
Bad: My Program Plus didn't work. *pout* Everything seemed
fine in the viewfinder -- no low-battery indication -- but
the shutter won't fire, and I can advance the film indefinitely,
not just once.
Slight reduction of baddity: I just moved that roll of TMZ
to a K1000 and put the Program Plus back in the camera bag.
(The K2 was already loaded with colour film.) So the equipment
failure didn't slow me down. But I'm still upset that the
Program Plus isn't working.
Evidence of non-Luddism: Yes, I had the *istD there. While
I'd been specifically asked to shoot film, I wanted some
instant-gratification photos for my own pleasure as well ...
and I really like being able to check the lighting with the
digital camera -- it made it trivial to figure out that the
guitarist's face was going to be underexposed if I metered
for the scene as a whole. (Yes, I could've figured that out
old-school, but setting the *istD to the same ISO/shutter/aperture
as the K2 and snapping a test shot is just so ... lazy^H^H^H
er, _easy_and_quick_.
This adapting to digital did happen more quickly (and more
thoroughly) than I expected. Here it is my birthday already,
and I've only shot a roll and a half of film this year so
far. (Though if I had the finances to get more film developed,
I think I'd shoot a _little_ bit more of it. And I still
find the K2 pleasant to use.)
-- Glenn
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