The history of photography part 3.

Today Mr Nut said he wanted to go to a playground, and as luck would have it, they were having a fair in the school opposite, so we tootled off to allow him to buy as many toys for 10p as his little heart desired (2 helicopters, on racing car, one really quite big wooden tractor and a 'little ball!') and also I got a working v tech kiddies laptop for £1. He can't work out how to get the games going (to be fair, it took jim a while) but if you set one going he'll play till the batteries run down.

Then I went to the Andy Warhol exhibition, and I took some shots (illegally) but I didn't have a memory card in so I don't think I can get them onto the computer, so you are stuck with this picture of Jim I took when I was 19.

After the colorsnaps 35 died, I replaced it with what I have just discovered was a supersnaps snappit (i saw one on ebay. They don't do the film any more, though) and then I went to Uni to study astronomy, which required you to have a manual SLR, so my dad finally gave me his Zenit. It's in the attic somewhere. The department gave you a roll of film to shoot, so you could learn how to process so this is Jim posing in the grounds of Southampton university, which is full of pretentious sculptures. It's a technical marvel because

1)I did the exposure on the camera correctly (despite its dodgy lightmeter) and also the focussing
2)I processed the film without cocking it up
3)I exposed the negative properly. I quite like the wonky framing.
4) It is properly pretentious like a black and white photo should be.

In fact, I was a bit put out jim didn't like my masterpiece on account of it not being very flattering.

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