{"id":347,"date":"2012-07-12T03:18:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T16:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/347-366-days-of-2012-day-194-reminiscing.html"},"modified":"2012-07-12T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T08:21:12","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-194-reminiscing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/347-366-days-of-2012-day-194-reminiscing.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 194 &#8211; Reminiscing"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:665 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"800\" height=\"691\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/194_MG_2811.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nToday 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!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFinally 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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI 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!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis 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!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo 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! \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 194 &#8211; Reminiscing&#8217;. 6sec f\/16 ISO-200 105mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 194 &#8211; Reminiscing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/347-366-days-of-2012-day-194-reminiscing.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 194 &#8211; Reminiscing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}