Cameras! Yay!

I fell in love with photography about two years ago, in college, during Photo 1 (mandatory "introduction to photography" course you have when you do arts&lettres). That course gave us (in 37 hours) phototheory, the rules of shooting using black&white film, negative processing and photo printing. That course was total heaven. I loved spending hours in the dark room or hours roaming the streets, looking for subjects that would fulfill the requierements. i just loved it to bits. But, as is inevitable, the course ended (i got a great score in that class, actually :D) and i went on with life.

Back in early April, about a week after i had left my job at the factory, i went through a bit of a blue phase. I harboured the idea of fleeing to New York, to see a friend that i missed a lot at that moment. Upon thinking this idea through, i realised that it wouldn't be a good idea and that it just wouldn't help the situation. Instead, with the money, i bought a Nikon SLR. I rediscovered my love of photography. Since early April, i can often be seen with my camera, just shooting.

With love of photography coming back, i started hunting for other photographic tools to bring visions to fruition. Two days ago, in a thrift store, i came upon two total jewels. First one, a "Time" camera. It's a total plastic camera, that shoots 35mm film. I gather that it was given to Time Magazine subscribers as a gift. It has a 50mm lens that seems rather dodgy, and four aperture choices with descriptive icons (5.6 (cloudy), 8 (partly cloudy), 11 (sun shining, but not too much) and 16 (sun!!)). It was 2$CDN, so i bought it.
Second jewel, a not-so-dated Polaroid One Step CloseUp camera. It shoots 600 film and it was 5$. SOLD!

I loaded the Time camera with Superia X-Tra 400 film. I still have twelve shots to go, so i'll know in a while what the beast can do. As for the Polaroid, it's just marvelous. It works great.

So voilà, two great thingies for 7$ Gotta love thrift shops!