New old media

As stated in yesterday's post, one of my summer goals is improving my photography as well as experimenting with different media. I always found film cameras and film on a whole to be "cool." The whole process of developing film and see it materialize in front of your very eyes always interested me, but not enough for me to set up a darkroom and search for the required materials and chemicals for developing. For now I'd rather send film to a shop and get the prints or just ask for them to develop the film and I scan the negatives myself. Of lately film has been pulling at my strings as the Youtubers and and blogs I follow deal heavily with the topic. Here a couple of my favorites ( Mijonju http://bit.ly/KPHEs5 & Japan Camera Hunter http://bit.ly/noQCIe) I tried resuscitation my dad's Pentax Superprogram he bought twenty years ago but to no avail. He said he carried it by the "best man to fix it", which I doubted at first, but I carried my 50D to him to fix one of the dials and he did an excellent job. So the Pentax is just a paperweight, a pretty one. One camera that my dad has that still works, is a Canon Ixus Z65, introduced in 2001. It uses APS sized film, which is a little smaller than regular 35mm film (pictured below), and has a couple neat features, such as indicators on the bottom, that tells you whether the film is in use or has reached the end of the spool. I intend to experiment with this camera and will post my findings.