It's official: I'm addicted to thrift stores.
My personal record collection has grown to a whopping four records. Two from U2, one double set of Kansas, and then the original Tubular Bells. As I write this, I'm listening to a live version of Dust in the Wind, all tinny from the cruddy record player, yet somehow posessed of a nostalgia that I don't posess myself, as though I were listening to it on a quiet AM radio.
Goodwill has created a standardized chain of clean and consistant department-store-like locations. Salvation Army has a gigantic store occupying an old roller skate rink down by the Dayton Mall. And yet, the most success I've had in finding unusual camera equipment has come from the tiny-ass little Salvation Army here in Troy, no bigger than a two bedroom apartment.
The first (and previous) time I went there, I came across the Nimslo 3D camera (which I have yet to send the film from to this lab in Canada for printing). Today, I went there, and saw an attention-grabbing hand held bellows camera. I grabbed it thinking it was maybe some sort of portable field large-format (4 inch x 5 inch neg) camera, but instead found that it was a classic Polaroid Land Camera. I'm not quite sure what to do with it, and my first thought was of somehow converting it to large format. For $1.50, I'll buy it now and figure it out later.
Long story short, it takes pack film that they still make, and which varies tremendously in price, but the black and white film I'd use is only $25 for two 10-exposure packs at Cord Camera down by the Dayton Mall. The only glitch is that it takes a weird battery that looks like an AA battery, but with snap-on connectors on each end like a 9-volt. I can buy them off ebay at about $9 apiece. Another weapon in the arsenal!
My personal record collection has grown to a whopping four records. Two from U2, one double set of Kansas, and then the original Tubular Bells. As I write this, I'm listening to a live version of Dust in the Wind, all tinny from the cruddy record player, yet somehow posessed of a nostalgia that I don't posess myself, as though I were listening to it on a quiet AM radio.
Goodwill has created a standardized chain of clean and consistant department-store-like locations. Salvation Army has a gigantic store occupying an old roller skate rink down by the Dayton Mall. And yet, the most success I've had in finding unusual camera equipment has come from the tiny-ass little Salvation Army here in Troy, no bigger than a two bedroom apartment.
The first (and previous) time I went there, I came across the Nimslo 3D camera (which I have yet to send the film from to this lab in Canada for printing). Today, I went there, and saw an attention-grabbing hand held bellows camera. I grabbed it thinking it was maybe some sort of portable field large-format (4 inch x 5 inch neg) camera, but instead found that it was a classic Polaroid Land Camera. I'm not quite sure what to do with it, and my first thought was of somehow converting it to large format. For $1.50, I'll buy it now and figure it out later.
Long story short, it takes pack film that they still make, and which varies tremendously in price, but the black and white film I'd use is only $25 for two 10-exposure packs at Cord Camera down by the Dayton Mall. The only glitch is that it takes a weird battery that looks like an AA battery, but with snap-on connectors on each end like a 9-volt. I can buy them off ebay at about $9 apiece. Another weapon in the arsenal!
posted by Grover at 8/12/2006 12:08:00 AM
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