> On Nov 10, 2019, at 11:14 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought this might be of interest to some. > > — > > I signed up to obtain a first issue of the new Analog Forever magazine > (https://www.analogforevermagazine.com) a few months ago. A week or three > ago, I received an invite to a San Francisco photo walk in honor of their > launch. Yesterday was the day... > > Getting ready to go, I thought about what camera to take along. The > Hasselblad 500CM came to mind, but I recently had my Minox C and EC cameras > out and I thought, "Hmm. I wonder if folks would like to see some Minox > cameras. I'm sure there'll be other Hasselblads..." So I loaded a roll of > Minopan (Agfa APX) 25 into the Minox C and a roll of Minopan 100 into the > Minox EC. Carrying two Minox cameras with their flash unit as well as the > Minox tripod (just in case) leaves my bag delightfully light and empty, to > the point where I then thought, "Oh stuff it: I'll carry the Polaroid SLR670x > by MiNT and two packs of 600 Color as well." That way we could share some > photos at the end-walk meetup point at SF Camerawork > (https://sfcamerawork.org). :D > > I took CalTrain up from San Jose to avoid having to deal with parking and > traffic, and bussed up to the start point. Meet up was at Glass Key Photo > (http://www.glasskeyphoto.com) on Sutter near Van Ness Avenue. I arrived as > folks were beginning to show up and walked in. Oh my! I haven't seen a photo > shop with a wall of printing papers and a set of refrigerators full of film > behind the counter in quite a long time! > > People arrived with a delightful array of interesting cameras. Lots of > instant film, new and old, 35mm RFs, 35mm SLRs, and MF SLRs/TLRs/RFs. A > couple folks with 8mm and Super 8 movie cameras. Everyone was in a festive > mood and happy to chat about their gear, their photography, etc, and there > was a good mix of men and women as well. A few folks I knew from other events > and places were there, notably my friends from Modern Book Gallery days > Niniane and Danny. (Danny still works for Modern Book in their latest efforts > and Niniane now works for Analog Forever.) > > The walk commenced with the usual hubbub of getting a group shot. About a > hundred people had assembled... quite a daunting group to photograph in the > narrow confines of the sidewalk outside the shop. After that we loosely > meandered along in a spread out bunch of groups, first up to Bush Street and > then down Bush to the Leica Store near the top of Grant Avenue and the Dragon > Gate, people snapping photos as we went. Then the walk headed down to Market > Street, and back towards Van Ness until we arrived at SF Camerawork. > > The conversation along the way was fun and engaging. People photographed each > other, other people, sights along the way, etc etc. I shot one pack of my > Polaroid Originals film, finished the roll in the Minox EC, and did about > half the roll in the Minox C. Another guy with a 100 series Polaroid made a > portrait of me, which he handed to me to hold until it was dry ... I lost > track of him and still have it! > > https://flic.kr/p/2hHQ1CX > > I took one of him too: > > https://flic.kr/p/2hHLksp > > At SF Camerawork, a number of the instant film users (myself included) laid > their photos out on the table for everyone to see. This was my set: > > https://flic.kr/p/2hHNW4N
Heh, two Polaroid posts in rapid succession. A short while ago, I ran across a Polaroid 340 with what seems to be a full pack of film, or maybe nearly empty, the exposed tab says 01, but it looks like there are more behind it. I expect that there is someone on this list that would get more enjoyment of of it than I would. -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- 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.
