Mama’s Got A Brand New Old Camera
I’m so excited I’m practically pulling my hair out:
It’s because I was gifted a new old camera from an old family friend. It’s a Pentax 6×7, or as some have said, “The Arnold Schwarzenegger of cameras – everything else is a girlie-man compared to this behemoth”. It’s a schmancy medium format film camera from years & years ago. If this sounds like a load of photo nonsense to you all it means is instead of using standard 35mm film (which is 24mm X 36mm) the camera uses 120 film, which is more than 4 times as large (56mm X 67mm). It’s such a monster that its tripod looks more like a deadly steel bludgeoning weapon than a camera stabilizer:
I don’t know exactly when we’ll have our first rendezvous because I’m currently in the Yukon and it is not, but I’m still excited. This is what the ol’ beast looks like:
