hello all, a while back i ask a question about how people deal with waining inspiration and got some very good responses. thank you all. well i found out what to do. my wife brought home a box of old cmeras from an elderly lady's house that she helps take care of. in the box are some brownies and kodak flashfun 2 cameras and one called tru-view. it turns out that the tru-view camera is a spin off of the diana cameras, those cheep plastic cameras that another thread speeks of. well i loaded it up with some 120 film got the kids and headed out for a hike in the mountains. the joy of these cameras is that you can not be to technical with them or even technical at all, you just guess at the focus and exposeure and shoot. what a blast.no thinking going on just snaping away, it was great to hear a shutter go of again. so now i know what to do when i get in a rut again trying so hard to get a great shot just load up the tru-view and hope for the best, and try to remember that it is JUST A PICTURE! happy snapping rodney

-- rodney (carcon@spinn.net), May 21, 2000

Answers

Funny ain't it. I've got a zillion dollars worth of equipment but about a week ago I went down to Wal-Mart and bought a $100 point-and-shoot to use just for fun.

-- Joe Cole (jcole@apha.com), May 22, 2000.

and I have just built a zoomable pinhole camera... sure I could get a 'better' picture with any real camera, but that's not what it's about!

-- Nigel Smith (nlandgl@eisa.net.au), May 22, 2000.

Often when I get into one of my many ruts I'll take street photos with a cheap plastic Fuji camera with a fixed shutter, aperature and focus. Only about 1 in 3 shots are printable so it's challenging. However the tonal quality and focal length are quite odd (pleasantly so) and I've never been able to mimic this with my other 'real' cameras. The best part is that it looks so touristy that no one gives me a second look when I photograph them. The freedom from the meter and focus is very refreshing.

-- Andy Laycock (agl@intergate.ca), May 23, 2000.

Often when I get into one of my many ruts I'll take street photos with a cheap plastic Fuji camera with a fixed shutter, aperature and focus. Only about 1 in 3 shots are printable so it's challenging. However the tonal quality and focal length are quite odd (pleasantly so) and I've never been able to mimic this with my other 'real' cameras. The best part is that it looks so touristy that no one gives me a second look when I photograph them. The freedom from the meter is very refreshing.

-- Andy Laycock (agl@intergate.ca), May 23, 2000.