The Whole Shootin' Match
Feb. 23rd, 2026 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thatsjustjenna Been down the rabbit hole lately with my new AuAdhd hyperfixation. Been wanting to get back in to shooting 120 mm film again, but the problem is that I haven't shot film in so long I've kind of forgotten how to do it!
So I bought a vintage camera off of Etsy and it's in awesome shape- except for the fact that I can't get the lenses to move. I'm sure I'm doing something dumb, at least I hope that is the case and not that the camera is borked. I've been trying to learn how to fix it on my own, but I think I might be at loose ends. And I've even bought film! D'oh!
I've been looking into camera shops that might be able to work on it. My best bet is in Raleigh- I'm going to message my old photography professor from college and see if she can't point me in the right direction. If anyone would know- she would! So at least I have a resource.
If the camera, a Super Richoflex tlr, doesn't work out I still have my old as the hills Holga camera I got in college when I was first introduced to 120 mm film. I miss using the really nice camera we had for class that we could rent out from the department. But that was in the thousands and thousands of dollars and that was twenty years ago. (I still can't believe it's been almost twenty years since we've graduated! Still blows my mind.)
I'm eager to get out and shoot, and I'd like to do it sooner rather than later. I think I've got the winter time blues. This would be a first for me! I usually love the winter so much! I'm allergic to absolutely everything out in nature: grasses, trees, the sky probably. All makes me sneeze. I get seasonal affective disorder in the spring time and it usually lasts until May or June. Right in time for the rag weed to start! But winter. Ahhh, winter! Everything (practically) is DEAD! (Except for pine, which I am also allergic to.) (Sigh.)
Until then, I am going to try and make up a list of places I can take pictures at. I want to take some out in the old cemetery behind the library where I work. I haven't been back there in years and I know it has some perfectly creepy old graves. The other one in the center of town has some too, and I'd love to go and photograph over there as well.
One of the people I follow on socials is Liz Z. Pardue, she's also into 120 mm film as well, and that makes me giddy. She seems so cool- I'd like to think if we had met in person naturally that we would be good friends. Hell, I'd like to think that we'd eventually be good friends no matter what. But we are respectful of internet personalities and do not bother them. (I'm convinced I'm bothering people whose sole job is to be on the internet. I just don't want to come across as creepy.)
But she was one of the reasons I got back into it- her film photography account was on my recommended followers page. So naturally I added her- it's a public page too. I don't know why I'm justifying it to myself. Yeesh. I don't know- I need more artsy friends in real life that enjoy doing weird shit like this.
That's yet another reason why I am so excited to go and see Sha and her girlfriend this summer! I'll be off from school and in a better mindset, I hope. By then I should have a working camera and several more rolls of color film at my disposal. Sha is also an artist and a writer. She's brilliant- and I know that word gets tossed around so easily. But it's the honest truth- I have never been amazed at someone else's art work the way that I am amazed at hers. Her writing is equally sublime. I aspire to her level of creativity.
I really enjoy this part about being in my 40's too. I get to have weird, quirky hobbies again. Only this time no one critiques them. Not like in my 20's when you got shit for straying outside the lines even a little bit. Especially in a small town- very few people here new the difference between a tlr and a slr. And the ones that did were my friends. (Well, most of them. One was a neighbor that was an ass. Glad he's gone!) But yeah.
Another thing I'm going to have to relearn is f-stops and apertures and all that. I remember some bits, but not enough to feel confident to wield the camera even if it was functioning properly.
Ahh well. All with time!
Now to get off this carosel and see if I can't do some homework before the night is over.
Until next time!...
So I bought a vintage camera off of Etsy and it's in awesome shape- except for the fact that I can't get the lenses to move. I'm sure I'm doing something dumb, at least I hope that is the case and not that the camera is borked. I've been trying to learn how to fix it on my own, but I think I might be at loose ends. And I've even bought film! D'oh!
I've been looking into camera shops that might be able to work on it. My best bet is in Raleigh- I'm going to message my old photography professor from college and see if she can't point me in the right direction. If anyone would know- she would! So at least I have a resource.
If the camera, a Super Richoflex tlr, doesn't work out I still have my old as the hills Holga camera I got in college when I was first introduced to 120 mm film. I miss using the really nice camera we had for class that we could rent out from the department. But that was in the thousands and thousands of dollars and that was twenty years ago. (I still can't believe it's been almost twenty years since we've graduated! Still blows my mind.)
I'm eager to get out and shoot, and I'd like to do it sooner rather than later. I think I've got the winter time blues. This would be a first for me! I usually love the winter so much! I'm allergic to absolutely everything out in nature: grasses, trees, the sky probably. All makes me sneeze. I get seasonal affective disorder in the spring time and it usually lasts until May or June. Right in time for the rag weed to start! But winter. Ahhh, winter! Everything (practically) is DEAD! (Except for pine, which I am also allergic to.) (Sigh.)
Until then, I am going to try and make up a list of places I can take pictures at. I want to take some out in the old cemetery behind the library where I work. I haven't been back there in years and I know it has some perfectly creepy old graves. The other one in the center of town has some too, and I'd love to go and photograph over there as well.
One of the people I follow on socials is Liz Z. Pardue, she's also into 120 mm film as well, and that makes me giddy. She seems so cool- I'd like to think if we had met in person naturally that we would be good friends. Hell, I'd like to think that we'd eventually be good friends no matter what. But we are respectful of internet personalities and do not bother them. (I'm convinced I'm bothering people whose sole job is to be on the internet. I just don't want to come across as creepy.)
But she was one of the reasons I got back into it- her film photography account was on my recommended followers page. So naturally I added her- it's a public page too. I don't know why I'm justifying it to myself. Yeesh. I don't know- I need more artsy friends in real life that enjoy doing weird shit like this.
That's yet another reason why I am so excited to go and see Sha and her girlfriend this summer! I'll be off from school and in a better mindset, I hope. By then I should have a working camera and several more rolls of color film at my disposal. Sha is also an artist and a writer. She's brilliant- and I know that word gets tossed around so easily. But it's the honest truth- I have never been amazed at someone else's art work the way that I am amazed at hers. Her writing is equally sublime. I aspire to her level of creativity.
I really enjoy this part about being in my 40's too. I get to have weird, quirky hobbies again. Only this time no one critiques them. Not like in my 20's when you got shit for straying outside the lines even a little bit. Especially in a small town- very few people here new the difference between a tlr and a slr. And the ones that did were my friends. (Well, most of them. One was a neighbor that was an ass. Glad he's gone!) But yeah.
Another thing I'm going to have to relearn is f-stops and apertures and all that. I remember some bits, but not enough to feel confident to wield the camera even if it was functioning properly.
Ahh well. All with time!
Now to get off this carosel and see if I can't do some homework before the night is over.
Until next time!...