I brought my Argus C3 to burning man on a lark. I thought that it would be fun nostalgia to run a roll or two of film through. I grabbed my probably expired unshot rolls of film to shoot with. I wasn't too worried about image quality, it was more a case of just playing with an old toy that I hadn't shot with in about 37 years.
By the time I'd get out of camp in the afternoon the weather was generally windy and dusty enough that I didn't want to risk the DSLRs so I ended up spending more time (at least during the day) shooting with the Argus than with my Pentaxen. Arguably, I should have put my 50/1.4 on the K1000 body that I brought along but I was having too much fun shooting with the Argus. I also like to think that I was learning a lot, being forced to shoot at a much slower pace where every step had to be done sequentially, and manually, to the point that winding the film and cocking the shutter were different actions. For your amusement: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157624809385751/ I'm not going to claim that any of these met my goal of only taking excellent shots, but if you cut some slack on technical details like sharpness, I think I got a few good ones, but even more important I had a lot of fun taking them. Shooting film again is also giving me a renewed appreciation of shooting digital, where ISO 200 is considered slow, rather than moderately fast. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
