Decided to dust my old camera off

[Penny220]

EOS 620, it was the best of the best the day I bought it LOL. Film got a bit expensive, life got in the way but it's time to get back into it. It's been so long and so much has changed that I figured this forum is the way to go. There is some really great photographers in here!

 

[john.margetts]

EOS 620 is a fine camera - I have one - apart from dusting it, what have you done with it? A couple of examples if your work would be nice.

And, welcome. Lots of good advice here.

 

[Penny220]

EOS 620 is a fine camera - I have one - apart from dusting it, what have you done with it? A couple of examples if your work would be nice.

And, welcome. Lots of good advice here.

From where I started...a few of us met up every Monday morning dropping our rolls at a special film lab, talking about our shoots, kicking around at the shop and taking our prints to the coffee shop for lunch to discuss many times including a few from the lab. Expensive habit. Life took over. I allowed my husbands daughter and my own son to take my baby out when they both got into photography. The roll in the camera is my sons, he graduated 4 yrs ago. It's been about 15 yrs since I've taken a shot myself. Digi is wonderful, take 200 shots to get one right and it won't cost a dime and our phones are actually taking decent pics these days. Now they photo correct on computers when they miss the right shot. I ran into a photographer a number of years ago running an Eos digi who had no clue about f-stops, he always used auto. To me that was DANG!!! That's a ton of money to throw down for a point and shoot. I would have LOVED his camera and truth be told I wouldn't mind going the route of digi. Phones are great for snap shots but a couple of weeks ago I was complaining over limitations per photography while a friend said there was no way an SLR could do better, especially old film. 2 days later I ended up in the Rio Grande....I got some great shots, nothing like what I could have done with my SLR. I'm from the days where a Polaroid test shot cost a buck to test a shot and we pushed films. I like the technical challenge. As I wait for my film and battery I've already discussed weather with a meteorologist. Filters and digi can fake a shot but film does not lie. Nothing replaces right time, right place. The world can hate their life, I will always be in awe of sun poking through trees in a forest or a bee collecting pollen on a flower. Memories that bore in your head but can never be captured with a point and shoot.