So I buy a new battery and clean up my old SLR.

So I pulled my old SLR out the other day and noticed I still had some film left in it but the battery was dead so couldn't get to. Finally got around to buying a new battery yesterday after the previous day when I stopped but somehow everything lined up as to the only one in the whole store was already opened up. Seriously one dam 2cr5 in the whole store and it was already opened up, nice. So waited another day and tried another store later on at night after running some errands so couldn't use it until today. Popped it in everything functioned so went about and cleaned the lenses and body as it sat for probably 4 years. Still had some frames left on the roll of film so that was pretty much why I bought the battery to atleast get that out and developed.

I head outside to take some closeup macro shots of flowers just to blow the frames off on. Boy I'll tell you I had forgotten how easy it was to take pictures since it's such a basic skill compared to creating a digital painting or 3d model. Seriously a photo is of something that is just there at that moment, otherwise if your physically or digitally painting, sculpting, modeling, designing something it's so much more involved.

May as well delve deeper into that by saying look at it this way a artist gets one chance with a piece of paper, parchment, canvas, fabric, metal, rock, clay, glass , etc to make something right? There are usually 12-36+ frames of film in rolls, talking 35mm ones. Whats that tell you? Oh you can screw up 11-35 times as long as 1 is alright. What are the others shots then gold stars for effort?

So here I framed the few shots of decent flowers around and blew the shots off. Clicked to shoot the last one and listened as it ratcheted as it respooled back into the cassette and popped it out.

Ah but wait that was too easy as everything lately it piles on. At that point I noticed it was a roll of B&W film so pretty much all the shots of nice vibrant flowers were wasted on it. Oh well not even sure any will develop so no loss.