366 Days of 2012, Day 194 - Reminiscing

Today I struggled for inspiration for something new. In-fact I almost dreaded running out of day without something I could publish in keeping with my expectations of one decent image every day!

Finally I found inspiration. While reading a G+ post from another photographer and how they made a switch from Minolta to Nikon in the early digital days. The post brought back memories for me of the Minolta X-700 which came out around 1983 and would be the SLR camera I used for the best part of 20 years before Canon wooed me away in 2003 with their EOS Rebel.

I pulled the X-700 out of the cupboard, dusted off the cobwebs and gave it the once over. Film! It was loaded! Next I turned it on. It came to life! I pressed the shutter and I took a photograph!

This all felt so strange, so nostalgic and almost surreal. I nearly forgot I needed to wind on the film when I could not work out would it why it would not take a second photo!

So here is my image today of the Minolta X-700 which served me well for 20 years of photography. So what photo did I take with the re-discovered X-700? The Canon of course!


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 194 - Reminiscing'. 6sec f/16 ISO-200 105mm