$50 Camera
October 31, 2009
Jessica (larger)
After fussing and fawning over exotic cameras for so long, I decided to go ghetto and bought $50 plastic Nikon N80 auto-focus SLR on eBay — “Just to try something vernacular for a change” — and darn it, it was light, easy, and fun to shoot with. Go figure… I guess they perfected the 35mm camera in the late 1990s, right before digital killed the entire category. I’ve been monkeying around with it for a couple of weeks now and I can’t break it, and if I did, I could buy a dozen more.
In the meantime I’ll just keep shooting with it. Sometimes you have to go exploring in order to discover the gems right in your own backyard.