Oh my!
Youngest son arrives with the camera still in the wee gadget bag that I used to carry the AE-1 with a 35 - 70 zoom, a Vivitar Thyristor zoom 3500 flash and a few accessories around in. I pulled it out of the bag and re-familiarised myself with it. My, aren't slr's small.
Remember, I haven't used this camera since mid 2000.
I click it on and raise it to my eye. A gentle squeeze of the shutter and ...
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it bursts into life! Really? WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Moving the camera about I can see the needle popping up and down as I move across the ceiling light, the flashing red leds for under / over exposure, and even manage to focus using the screen. That needs a clean.
I slip a couple of Duracell AA's into the flashgun and attach it to the camera. I turn the flashgun on. After a few seconds it bleeps to tell me that it is ready.
I point he camera at mllePB, focus, then hit the shutter button. The flash pops, the viewfinder light goes green and the flash gives me the 'correct exposure' long beeeeeeeeep. There is still a film in there too. It is an Ilford 400 which I put in there in 2000.
I am incredulous at the fact that it all works still after nearly 16 years in hibernation.
I'm considering buying film and taking her to Malham.
