Photo Project

In an effort to actually participate, I’m formally announcing here that I’m going to participate in Brian Auer’s latest photo project - The $50 film camera. Since the Fujica camera I got earlier this year had the shutter freeze on it and the Mayima has major issues with the focusing system, I recently set out to pick up a new film camera.

My brother is an art professor and turned me on to the Pentax K1000 (pictured), which I just picked up off of eBay for $46 (plus shipping, which put it over the $50 mark, but I’m not counting the shipping.)

The project basically has a few concepts:

1. Find a film camera for under $50 (check)
2. Shoot some film with the camera (in-progress)
3. Write a review of the camera
4. Publish a photo of the camera
5. Publish an entire roll of photo (including the duds)
6. Submit a link to all of the above on Brian’s blog here
7. Do it by September 12, 2008

The project has a couple prizes attached, namely a Diana+ camera from Lomography and a whole punch of Ilford film. I’ve got a roll of Velvia in the camera already and have taken a few frames with it.  The last time I shot some film I took forever to develop it, so hopefully this gives me some impetus to move quickly.

If you want to participate, you can check out the full details on Epic Edits.