Carol Williams
Two gents
Posted by Carol (Istanbul, Turkey) on 6 March 2007 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.
Putter from Belgium
Great streetshot, reminds me of the 'Parisian' photos from Cartier-Bresson!
6 Mar 2007 8:28am
Fred from Easton PA, United States
Nice scene, simple yet interesting.
Hey I looked at your flickr site and saw you still use a pentax K1000 !
That was my first camera all those years ago, i miss that totally manual set up with that little needle of a lite meter . Never had to worry about the battery dieing to take shots , life was good haha .
12 Mar 2007 4:50am
Carol from Istanbul, Turkey
Ho yes. Bought it second hand before I came out here and love it - a real work horse maybe 15-20 years old and still going strong. But maybe you have selective memory? took it out the other night and battery had died and the little needle wouldnt move :( Mostly recently I'm using the minolta cos I really love the wide angle (s'pose I could buy one for the pentax.... :/)
12 Mar 2007 5:37pm
Fred from Easton PA, United States
Well i wouldn't say I have a selective memory ( maybe one that fails at times hehe ) your totally correct about the light meter not working without that little button battery that pops in the bottom. I guess I should have said that the camera still functions without it.
You must admit that after shooting with a totally manual camera for years that in many cases that dumb old needle isn't needed lol. I think I went for 3 years without one .
But now..well even after upgrading to a semi automatic camera back in the day a dead battery meant no click when I pushed the button.
Wow who would ever think I'd sit around reminiscing about the good old days before all this new finagled technology haha ! I hate to admit I'm getting old but unfortunetly having those memories forces the grim reality upon me ! Ok..maybe I'm being just a touch over dramatic, but ya got me on a roll /grin.
13 Mar 2007 12:56am
@Fred: Oh yes. Back in the days when you could get two large whiskeys and a packet of fags for a fiver and still have change over for the fruit machine, cameras still worked with dead batteries :) Fine memories tho...
Fred from Easton PA, United States
Your going to make me do it aren't you ?
Ok, someplace in this house I have a camera, which even though I know it's going to be a painstaking venture to find I'm going to dig it out .
Along with it's hand held light meter who's only energy needed to give a reading was threw the ambient light that converted this energy into electricity threw the use of a solar plate . I must admit that I did have great fun with it at the time but 120 film is a rarity these days.
And if I'm very lucky I'll find that picture of the duck too...you'll see.
14 Mar 2007 12:19am
