This weeks prompt in 52Frames is "Line from a song" so I went with "I've got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph" from Paul Simon's "Kodachrome". When this song came out I was using a Praktica Nova B but I lusted after a Nikon. It wasn't until a year and a half ago when I found a Nikon D3200 on Craigslist for $150 that I finally had my first Nikon. I used it to take this image of the Reef Tavern in Point Roberts.
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A retro and sad feeling to this. Very effective. I’ve never owned a Nikon. Went from Zenit (only SLR I could afford at that time) to Minolta to Sony to Canon and back to Sony. Makes me feel my age, reviewing that whole process.
@gardencat I went from the Praktica to a Miranda Sensomat briefly then on to numerous Canon cameras starting with an AE1 (which I still have) and ending with a 5DMii which I traded in on a Sony A7iii in 2018. I remember all my cameras fondly, it has been a fun ride - and it ain't over yet.
@randystreat Yeah, total opposite to what he sings about in the song, the “greens of summer” and “makes you think all the worlds a sunny day”. I haven’t been inside the Reef in many years but the outside looks the same as it did in the 70’s.
@kuva Well, it’s not the Nikon i lusted after back in the 70’s. That was a Nikon F. This is a 10 year old D3200 that I got really cheap. But it is quite capable and I have had some fun with it.
