It's summertime, the livin' is easy, and the Shutter Brothers, Kelley and Kevin Lane, are back with a brand new episode of the Uncle Jonesy's Cameras Podcast. After taking the month of June off due to a busy vacation travel schedule, Kevin tells the sad story of how a good camera, his beloved Minolta X-700, went over to the dark side - literally. When he developed the first batch of vacation photos, Kevin found himself staring unbelievably at partially obscured frames like this:
With some help from online photography friends, Kevin learned that the ruined photos were caused by a malfunctioning shutter. You can read more about this problem and how you can help a good camera from going bad by going to Kevin's blog post
here.
Next, Kelley introduces us to his newest fascination, and it's a very moving subject indeed: home movies. While it hasn't been discussed previously by the Shutter Bros, Uncle Jonesy actually had a third camera in his collection, a Bell and Howell 8mm movie camera that he made fine use of while the Bros were kids growing up in Chattanooga. The camera and those home movies are still in Kelley's collection today. Kelley has recently acquired an Argus/Cosina 708 super 8 movie camera and some newly released Kodak Ektachrome super 8 movie film, and he plans to make a movie of his forth-coming beach vacation this month.
Home movies on film are starting to make a comeback of sorts with inexpensive cameras readily available in antique and thrift stores and online and both b&w and color film available from online sellers like the Film Photography Store. Kelley breaks down the different formats, developing and scanning, and the costs involved.
Finally, Kevin gives a big shot out to the fine folks who have donated cameras to be used by his students at Woodstation Elementary School. The Film Photography Project donated eight 35mm point and shoot cameras that will be used by fourth graders to learn film photography basics, and listener Jay Buie recently donated three Nikon N60 SLR's for lucky fifth graders to shoot for the yearbook. Many thanks to both for your generosity!
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