Cripes, you'd think I'm a moran, but I'm not

[Rabrrrrrr]

I picked up my photos from Japan today. YAY!

I have a fairly advanced 35mm and also a basic, but good, 120 film camera. I also have a Sony digital camera in the 2 or 3 megapixel range (bought it in 2000, so whatever was highest at the time, that's what it is). And I had on the trip one 35mm dispoable camera.

I am a REALLY GOOD photographer, and have been doing artistic photography for more years than I've been doing fine art painting. My 35 mm camera has had hundreds of rolls of film put through it, every roll good. My 120 camera, even though it's entirely manual, has had probably 50 rolls of film put through it with incredbile results. My digital camera - eh, the ratio of good to bad is maybe 2:1, but that's mostly because it's digitial, so I just shoot like hell knowing I'm not wasting film or paper, and I edit all the crap out later. Lots of freedom with a digital, and I like that.

But that damn disposable 35 mm - I haven't used one (except an underwater one) in 10 years or more. But I had one which I bought (as a group of about 15) for my niece and nephew back in 2002 when we went to Hawaii, but this one I forgot about and found right before going to Japan. Well, I get my pictures back, and about half the pictures from that camera have MY THUMB and sometimes my thumb and a finger in front of the lens. And my partner, also a phenomenal photographeress, took some photos with that damn camera and HER thumb is in front of more than half of the images she took.

HOW EMBARASSING IS THAT?

Okay, it's not world devestatingly awful, but it IS damn embarassing.

[fishnfla]

1. as a techno-idiot, i can relate

i know not one whit of any digital hoo-hah, so i use the disposables alot, especially the water proof ones. Somthing with the design of the grip, always gets the finger of the shooter. I'm careful with it, but anytime somone else picks it up...nice knuckle.

you have to hold those things like a teacup, fingers only and hands folded out of the way

[BlackVelvetElvis]

2. Very! Don't feel too bad though.

Those cameras are configured differently than an SLR. Easy mistake!
I hope you got some great shots and you POST them.
Not too long ago, I spent the entire day photographing waterfalls. My film was blank when I processed it. Why? I didn't load the film correctly and it never even attached to the spool. I felt so stupid.
I'm glad you had a great time in Japan.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Absolutely different than the SLRs

pain in the ass.

Never using one again. The lens is in totally the wrong spot. Still, I'm glad I had it, because my first day out the battery for my 35mm died and it took me a few days to find a place that had the battery I needed to replace the dead one.

Eventually, I will get around to posting some shots.

Sad thing is when I was there it was so *@&$()$!^! hazy I couldn't get any really good shots. Amazingly hazy. I was so offended by it. Until my last two days, but on those days our plans did not include anything that involved long distance seeing, so it didn't matter then whether it was hazy or not.

My pictures would be much better if it weren't for the haze. There's only so much one can do to cut through it, and I didn't have any of those tools with me anyway. Just seriously, shittily, hazy. From Kyoto to Hiroshima.

Pisser about you taking pictures and not having the film attached. I haven't done that - my camera won't allow it, thank God - but I sympathize.

[dolo amber]

4. *cough*

*Moran*...*cough*

;):D

At least you had a better experience than I did the last time I used one of those at a wedding...went to the Ladies...camera slipped out of pocket...into the potty. It was probably fine, it was only in there 1 second (and YES, it was before I *went* :P). But then after I fished it out (x() I was too paranoid that by some freaky twist of fate it'd gotten a pic of the underside of my bum so I just chucked it.

:D

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. LOL!

Such rampant paranoia - I love it! Pisser about the pictures you lost due to that rampant paranoia, though. Doubtful the camera took a picture, and if it did, it would have taken it while moving, so it would have been out of focus and unrecognizable anyway.

[dolo amber]

7. And probably

with the toilet bowl's equivalent of a finger in front of the lens. :D

[pagerbear]

6. I'm shocked, surprised, horrified!

No more dim sum for you, young man!