sooooo after all my venting yesterday, i finally decided to take up a new hobby and since i cannot afford to buy a new digital camera with all the lovely features that a photographer should have (not those little 6 megapixel ones-i have one and i find it completely useless in taking nice photos coz the zoom is crap) on my student allowance-that should be over in like another couple weeks...yaaay...i decided to inherit my dad's canon AV-1 without his knowledge ofcourse....hahahaahahaha...he would shoot me if he realised am taking pictures of glasses and the clouds and biskit (my dog whom he loathes coz she's an attention seeker and hence WHINES ALL THE TIME) and seeing as how he's a BP patient errrrmmm the temper goes abit haywire....
soooo back to the camera....now for those of your that dunno a canon AV-1 lemme try and describe it to u..it's a box shape gadget, with two lenses (u havta take one out to use the other obviously) and lots and lots and lots of buttons-none of which opens where u load the film...it took me like 3 hours to figure that out and even then-i hadta go online to find out how...apparently u havta pull one of the rolly things...hahahahah...
after i felt like the awesomeness of the fool that i am and finished laughing at myself, i loaded the film-errrrmmmm it took me another like hour to do that coz i couldn't make it stay on the teeth-clearly coz i didn't read the instruction that said, PUT THE EDGE OF THE FILM INTO ONE OF THE SLOTS....errrmmm yeah so after I slotted it in...EURREEEEEKKKKAAAAA..IT STAYED...
then i tried clicking....ehhhhhmmm NOTHING....and the online manual said if the film is loaded properly it should click...sooo iwent back and tried everything but it wouldn't click....frustating huh....but wittle jazzywazzy hadn't read again-it requires a battery that had clearly passed away in all the years that my dad hasn't used his camera....
so i called up my pal and asked where i could get it-he gave me an idea...and mother reckoned the battery was proli like a gazzillion shillings by now coz the camera is quite ancient...feeling a deep sense of loss in my pocket i went to the camera shop and it wasnt too bad-250 bob....so now i had a battery and a loaded camera and VOILA...it clicked....hahahahahahahaha...
so now i had 36 exposures to practise with...i started on tasneem my friend....taking her pix when she wasn't realising...the expressions were beautiful-i just dunno if i actually managed to get the right coz eeehhhmmmmm it's not digital...so i havta like finish the 36 pix take it to get developed and then only can i see the oh so lovely pictures that i have taken...
not to mention the beautiful couple portrait that Khalil and Heena posed for...i'm hoping i didn't take one of their heads off....hahahahahahaha...
oh yeah and my dog who just look at me like am crazy coz every time she's doing something foolish am busy clicking away...ad this morning i decided to take pictures of flowers and trees (trying to be very artistic and using different positions and stuff) lets see how that works out....lmaooo...i some how think that it's gonna be one comical ride thru this phase of non-digitalised photography :)
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