I finally bought the Nikon manual film camera that I've long wanted - the Nikon FM3a (far below). It is a wonder of industrial beauty. I own a few similar cameras - the Nikon FA, FM2n, and FE2 - but not the one that I've wanted. It was always just a little bit out of my price range: ~$900. But then I found one yesterday in Japan for $600.
At least one writer seems to agree with me concerning the camera's desirability and has even chosen my favorite lens to argue his point [here].
Now I can stop buying manual film camera bodies, there is nothing left to want.
Nothing left in the now defunct Nikon manual lineup, I mean.
I took the images of the boy with my iPhone and the Tin-Type app.
Cato says they look like a Tom Waits album cover and I agree - dark, carnivalesque, with a hint of something satanic going on, dark voodoo of some sort.
Boy Conjurer.
I'll try to remember to point out some shots I take with the new camera once I have them processed and scanned. They will, of course, seem no different to you the viewer from any of the other ones you may have seen posted here.
Its joy derives from the shooting experience, not the photographic end result.
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