Auto Telephoto Mr. Roboto
This weekend was spent at the pool, just hangin’ out, pretty much. Now it feels like summer..
(photo – Leica, unfocused while experimenting w/ manual shutter and light settings. reminds me of this and this. very “bokeh”)
Oh! My mom found the other cameras! They’re so cool.. One of them, an old Canon, has crusty battery juice all over the back, but hopefully when we take them all in to be looked over/fixed it will still work. She also found a bunch of lenses, including this one really weird zoom one that looks like a missile-turbine-ish thing. Speaking of missiles, I had a dream the other night where Russia was firing missiles at us (us: some of my classmates and a teacher)… We were just standing there, and Ray looks up and goes “HOLY S–T IT’S THE K-9!” (K-9? Stereotypical Russian nuclear weapon code? My brain iz weird. [what's weird is that, in my dream, I subconsciously thought of that being weird/a stereotypical Russian weapon-name.. do I smell some lucid dreaming?!]) Then this huge rocket-thing flies down and hits right by us, followed by machine gun fire, then we go find shelter. It was scarrrry. Tavi and Keara also had strange dreams, I hear. Well, if you call meeting Zach Quinto/shooting zombies a strange dream, yes.
The old Canon.
The missile lens and another old camera, a Mamiya. The lens is super dirty, I doubt it would take any good pictures.
But doesn’t it totally look like some drill weapon-ish thingy?! No, it totally looks like something in Transformers, like one of their gun-arms or something. We just watched that in the car and it was very much higher than my expectations, actually.. I kinda liked it. Not as soul-worthy as Star Trek, but still pretty damn cool. I <3 Autobots.
And finally, the Olympus. My mom says this was her main camera (back when she was majoring in photography), and that she’s taken thousands of pictures with it/can remember using it so well. It was the first one we found.
There are some lenses for this one, too. I don’t know how to work them [yet] – just look at all those meters and stuff! – but, if I even get the cameras working, and choose to use them, for that matter, I’ll figure it out. Experimentation, right? You know, that’s not entirely true. Technical stuff (i.e. learning how to use those lenses) could use some additional advising, maybe some “usage of the Google machine,” but.. you get it.
A zoom lens we found. I think it’s the biggest (and newest/nicest looking) one we have.
I don’t know which camera it works for yet, but it looks really cool.
Auto telephoto Mr. Roboto.
By the way, my great-grandfather’s Polaroid isn’t an SX-70. Whoops. It’s actually a wee bit older (like, four decades or so), not even close to the SX-70. It’s so old, it still has the leather telescopic foldout thingy that cameras used to have. I’m almost positive it’s a Model 95A. It’s also in near-perfect condition, but I don’t think I would want to use it – it’s more of a look-we-have-something-that-could-be-in-a-museum item, y’know? What that really means, is, it will probably sit in my closet or our attic, again, until one day later in life I re-rediscover it and say, “whoa, look at this! dude, I blogged about this when I was like, 13!” If that’s how I talk in the future… I might have a robot voice and robot eyes and legs and arms. WE MIGHT ALL BE CYBORGS (or Autobots). God, I hope not… That would totally demean the awesomeness of humans and mankind (once again: and you thought I was a misanthrope!), however stupid we may be right now. (*cough* really stupid…) Dude, I’d much rather have a human brain than a robot brain. (And you can quote me on that.) Even though I’d probably be able to do math supah-fast (psshh, I can already do that) and play video games and go on the internet AND TWEET… AND BLOG from inside my head. But that’s what computer-contact-lenses are for! I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again. Sometimes I kinda wish I was alive during the 60′s, etc etc, or that I lived/live in the woods. I mean, technology is great and all – incredible communication, health care and whatnot – but wouldn’t it be nice to just, I dunno.. have a pet bug or somethin’? ‘Tis a conversation for another time, I think. Anyway, here’s the Polaroid:
The original carrying case, with the manuals and stuff.
The guides.
The instructions.
It, closed.
It, open, with flash (missing bulb, though).
Notice how the meter is on 4. Could there still be film in there?!
Pretty cool, no? There are more pictures of all the cameras and stuff on my new Flickr account. I just bought the Pro because I figure, if I’m going to start sharing a lot of photos I ought’a have one, right? It was highly advised by a lot of Flickr aficionados, so I think it was a good decision.
Anyway, C U L8R, G8R. CN U UND3RSTND WAT I SYNG? Oh, and don’t worry; this isn’t going to be all obsessed with photography all the time. ~diversity~, y’allz.
