Picking up the camera

I haven't started divesting myself of my absurdly big collection of

cameras yet, at least not in a big way. Last month a friend told me

he figured he was never going to use his 1970s-era 8mm Nizo 156XL

camera: would I take it? Of course I would, and did. But in turn I

figured I wouldn't use it either, so I immediately put a call out on

Facebook: who wanted it?



I got a half-dozen requests right away. The first, and the winning,

request was from a friend who is doing a film about a local woman who

left fifty-odd years ago to become a (successful) bull-fighter. She

thought she could use the 8mm camera to make some nice film footage to

intercut with the higher-class video her film is mainly being shot on.

So she got the camera -- and I took a picture of her with it when she

came to pick it up a half-hour later.



This was on expired Fuji 800 film (a gift to me from another friend)

in my Olympus Pen D3. The D3 is leaking light now but this frame was

pretty good.