{"id":2752,"date":"2015-05-10T03:08:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T10:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2015-05-10T03:08:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T10:08:03","slug":"call-me-old-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/?p=2752","title":{"rendered":"Call Me \u2018Old School\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It is 2015 &#8211; and I bought a film camera. Most readers won\u2019t even know what a film camera is. let me put it this way &#8211; it is &#8216;Old School&#8217;, just like the rotary telephone, VHS tapes, the \u2018walkman\u2019 and LP records. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Yes &#8211; I am \u2018Old school\u2019. I used all those things as a kid, and now in my adulthood, there is a certain pleasure in using them again. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The camera I bought is as old as I am; there is no autofocus, no flash, no light meter and no batteries. It is a simple, though incredibly heavy &#8211; all metal and glass rangefinder camera. There isn&#8217;t even any plastic, and not even a place to attach a neck strap &#8211; it weights as much as a brick !.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">It was made in the USSR, again, most readers won\u2019t even know where that is, unless that happen to have heard the Beatles song\u2026\u2019Back in the USSR\u2026\u2019 (Dad &#8211; Who are the Beatles?). The USSR no longer exists, a legacy of the Cold War, and the camera (Revue-3) is based on the German Leica cameras from designed and built before World War 2.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Although I do not expect to get professional quality results from this camera<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I do expect to have fun, to play, and feel youthful even a bit nostalgic\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is 2015 &#8211; and I bought a film camera. Most readers won\u2019t even know what a film camera is. let me put it this way &#8211; it is &#8216;Old School&#8217;, just like the rotary telephone, VHS tapes, the \u2018walkman\u2019 and LP records. Yes &#8211; I am \u2018Old school\u2019. I used all those things as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,237],"tags":[791,790,792],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear","category-life-the-universe","tag-film-camera","tag-old-school","tag-vhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}