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I picked up my photos from Japan today. YAY!
I have a fairly advanced 35mm and also a basic, but good, 120 film camera. I also have a Sony digital camera in the 2 or 3 megapixel range (bought it in 2000, so whatever was highest at the time, that's what it is). And I had on the trip one 35mm dispoable camera.
I am a REALLY GOOD photographer, and have been doing artistic photography for more years than I've been doing fine art painting. My 35 mm camera has had hundreds of rolls of film put through it, every roll good. My 120 camera, even though it's entirely manual, has had probably 50 rolls of film put through it with incredbile results. My digital camera - eh, the ratio of good to bad is maybe 2:1, but that's mostly because it's digitial, so I just shoot like hell knowing I'm not wasting film or paper, and I edit all the crap out later. Lots of freedom with a digital, and I like that.
But that damn disposable 35 mm - I haven't used one (except an underwater one) in 10 years or more. But I had one which I bought (as a group of about 15) for my niece and nephew back in 2002 when we went to Hawaii, but this one I forgot about and found right before going to Japan. Well, I get my pictures back, and about half the pictures from that camera have MY THUMB and sometimes my thumb and a finger in front of the lens. And my partner, also a phenomenal photographeress, took some photos with that damn camera and HER thumb is in front of more than half of the images she took.
HOW EMBARASSING IS THAT?
Okay, it's not world devestatingly awful, but it IS damn embarassing.
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