happy friday.

make it a good one.

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shot with my Olympus Stylus Zoom 140 Deluxe/black & white 35mm film

film photos.

around Christmastime my gem of a coworker donated to my camera collection an Olympus Stylus Zoom 140 Deluxe (takes 35 mm film) and an original Polaroid camera (takes 600 film which, by the way, costs quite literally an arm and a leg to purchase. gag me).i was all sorts of excited to shoot with film and decided to use a roll of black and while film that i had hanging out in my room to shoot my Christmas and New Years with.
guys? love.

{h, tracking santa. he was up at the crack of dawn and was mapping out exactly where santa was and where he was going next. i love his innocent belief and wonder for life.}

{hi.}

new years eve:

i'm definitely going to be using more film in the future. its a lot of fun to not see how anything turned out until you've paid for it and have the tangible "evidence" in your hands. but i still have a lot to learn in a way of film. such as, a good place to get my photos developed. walgreens? yeah, not doing that again. ever.

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a few reasons why its not good for me to stay up until 3am:

i buy stuff. observe:+polaroid 600 film in color and black and white.

(boo that they only come with 8 exposures. but seriously, what is with everyone selling the actual polaroid film for $100+ that's just ridiculous if you ask me. grrrrr. but fyi the film is cheaper on amazon then it is on urban outfitters. and don't even think) about looking for the film on the polaroid site because it isn't there... or at least i couldn't find it.)

+fujifilm instax film (a two pack, so it was a good deal).

(again, fyi, cheaper on amazon then on lomography. i didn't look at the actual fujifilm site though...)

+fandom t-shirts. specifically, these two:

(i cannot wait for them to get here. anybody else love redbubble?)

see? staying up late is expensive for me. yikes.

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the continuted story of the purchasing of the cameras.

remember this sad tale?well, i think you'll be glad to know it has a happy ending. part 1 of the happy ending is this:
i am currently counting down the days until my fujifilm instax 7s (and its two boxes of film) arrives! (yes, i decided on the fujifilm instax... for now. the kicker was that it's a 7s. yay me.)

part 2 is this:
first it starts out even less happy than before and then it gets really happy at the end.
so, i went to take my holga back and they had removed all the holgas from their shelves. what?! no taking pictures that look like this:

grrrr. the girl could tell i was distraught so she even checked in the back for me. but when she came back empty handed, i knew i would have to settle for something else. so, i began scanning the shelves. and that's when i laid eyes on this:

i liked it even better then the edelweiss that i had originally picked out. in addition to that i decided i wanted to work with 120 film for the time being rather than 35mm (i'll move onto that soon enough) and so, i went home happy as a clam. but then i tried to find 120 film. and gosh dangit, no one sells it! (and by no one i really mean target and kroger which are the only two places that i looked.)
then i received e-mail notification that i was good to go on lomography.com so i rushed over and got my camera and (now, this is where it gets happy!) 3 rolls of 120 film!!!

today i checked the status of my package and WOOT! its in the dallas area which means i should have it by the weekend (aka tomorrow).
i guess today is basically tbde (the best day ever.)

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