Click *grind grind grind*

I went to use that time camera in the aforementioned blog, the one that had slightly resembled the TIME camera. (This is the camera my dad gifted me I had mentioned) Of course I puttied a couple of different washers onto the barrel of the lens to try and get a weird black corner effect. How did my results turn out?

Walgreens always develops my pictures. Well. Not develops but processes my 35mm on to a disc so I have it for a collection. She asked me my last name and then told me... "Blank roll." I was like, "theres nothing on that roll?" She replied "Uh-huh."

What bothers me about this specific time, since this has happened now a total of like 5 times in the last few months, is that firstly it was my last roll of expired Kodak 200 film. And secondly, I wanted to see how the washers effected the exposures. 

Now mind you I would have still been flaming if it was a black and white Kodak 400 roll now that a three pack is like $9.99 even at Walmart. But it was some really really cool, imperfection covered one of four expired rolls my girlfriends mother gave me.  

And it leaves me to believe that the crunching sound and force I was getting when I started to shoot and advance, was probably the camera malfunctioning and not actually "Taking up" the film.

Speaking of taking up. My main camera the Holga 135BC was giving me trouble. And I had debated getting another one. It was not advancing my film I had brought to a family get together. After some finesse it started to work. And after I got the blasted thing to work I tried to get my cousins to take two of their kids to the park so I could take some good pictures and they without hesitation denied it in the same manner they would have denied a stranger asking to take pictures. I made way with camera bag and girlfriend in hand and skipped out of our little family rendezvous that I made such the effort to go to. Which sucked. I got a really rare steak out of it though.

All of this will probably put me on a hiatus to wanting to use the cheap TIME camera anytime soon. And the Holga is just pissing me off. I expect that damn thing to work all the time without a hitch. I am understanding with the first few rolls of film a camera eats on my behalf. But when I feel like my work horse camera is slouching and not working due to a camera defect, it will probably be a bit before I go out of my way to take pictures with it.

Maybe the cameras I have been using are too low tech? Or maybe its me expecting too much out of toy cameras anymore? 

These cameras are so simple, the results are so random, and the film makes all the difference. That and the lighting which im starting to figure out. 

*Picture provided by blogger, Holga 135BC expired Kodak 200 Expired 2005*