Well today I finally managed to make the time to build the camera. It's a KONSTRUKTOR SLR camera. You build most of the camera yourself only the shutter and mirror come pre-built. It was a bit of a fiddle in places but great fun to build. I of course managed to get one bit wrong and the film when loaded didn't wind forward but after a review it was just a case of a cog alignment.
It's got a fixed aperture of F10 and only two shutter speed 1/80 or Bulb and a 50mm lens, I've put in a 400 that I also got as part of my present, I'm thinking that as part of my photo a day challenge I might well use that camera for some of them as the added fun of working out exposure and timing the shutter and having to wait for the picture to come back could be fun! I will of course scan and upload the photos.
Of course the joy of a film camera is that you are limited to 36 shots per film not the 1000s you can fit on to an SD card. So you have to think through the shot a lot more. I think that's almost a problem with digital is the amount of photos you can take and the fix it in Photoshop later attitude. I will look forward to using both formats and might even try and think of my digital as an analogue and limit myself 36 frames!
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I like the idea of setting yourself some boundaries or limitations occasionally, I think it's a good way of stretching yourself technically and creatively. Liking the blog so far, keep up the good work!
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