Canadia Blog

Okay, so I’m not sure I did so well on today’s title. But at least I tried. It’ll be a nice short post today, because not that much happened. We got up, had breakfast, and then went to see my grandparents’ friend. She teaches third graders, and it’s their last week of school, so we went out to the beach where they were field-tripping and talked to her/met some of them. Then we went scouting some potential birding locations, went to Costco and Future Store (basically a Circuit City), came home and had dinner.

It is of note, though, that it turns out the new camera is not, in fact, a Brownie. It’s just a Kodak Six-20 fold-out camera: near as I can tell, there’s not much in the way of distinguishing nomenclature between all the different cameras that apparently bear the name. The Brownie, however, is sort of a dumbed down version, with a fixed aperture and only two shutter speed options. I got a piece of audio cable from Future Store, and spent a while today trying to shoehorn a Pocket Wizard into the flash system of the camera. I was getting a little frustrated with the “hot shoe,” when I gave one side of it a little tug, and lo and behold, it popped up. Turns out it wasn’t a hot shoe after all, but some variety of viewfinder holder. I guess you can get a looking-glass sort of thing to drop in there and complement the (rather shoddy) waist-level “viewfinder” the camera comes with. But of course, that was decades ago, so I’m not gonna bother trying to find one. Rather, I get to deal with finding film, which I’ll apparently have to buy online, because no one carries 620 roll film anymore.
I know it doesn’t sound like much, but all this camera business was pretty much the focus of my day. I’ll go ahead and leave the rest of the boring details out, but suffice it to say that there’s nothing more to tell about today. No photographs either, because I didn’t really make any. Tomorrow, though, we pick up that 400mm lens in the morning, so there’ll hopefully be some wonderful bird shots adorning tomorrow’s post. Hopefully.

Tags: Canadia, Drudgery, Failure, Not a Brownie, Pocket Wizard

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