First, I break out the Fall Catalog, because I like shopping for things in print. I can draw on the book. See that headline “Holga Craze!”, that describes my life. Only, add in Dianas, pinholes and other random Lomo cameras. Also, the Arista photo paints. I crave those daily.
Then the pdf of the new catalog is sitting in the browser where I will casually browse until Freestyle gets it in the mail. There are dreams of new Holga filters, and Diana lens adapters for my Canon.
Then this new, and expensive, Fujifilm 120 folding rangefinder has me heading over to Ebay, where I’m mildly obsessed with buying vintage outdated cameras. I blame my mom for giving me my grandpa’s Whittaker Micro 16 for my birthday.
Only after about 2 minutes of shopping for Kodak Duaflexes, I open my watch list and remember the crazy Lomo cameras I added around Christmas time. A black and pink star camera with 2 lens that shoot serial double frames.
A waterproof 35mm toy camera. Even though once upon a time, I spent $300 so I could have the Canon waterproof D10 that does just about everything except manual control.
It’s so cute.
Back to the catalog. I am really into shopping for film. Look, Infrared film, “specialty films”…
Nevermind that I have this box of film, full of expired and wonderful Kodak 35mm… and slide film… and Infrared film… and Ortho sheet film, 120 color and black and white film, and enough Arista black and white to last me at least until June.
Did I mention they have positive paper for pinhole photography. And Cyanotype kits?
This will positively be the death of me. I have a shopping list that is one page long and a to-do list for experimental things to try that is 7pages long.
If you happen to read the photo section of my blog, rest assured it will never be boring or cease to have weird photo tutorials.
If you’re just here to read about my life, then you should send help. I’m on a downward spiral of photo window shopping. Send help. On second thought, just send cash.
Shasta Betty
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