Film Set 06
I was lucky enough to join a soccer team with some of my now-favorite people when I first moved to Austin. You’ll probably see them throughout the site (somewhere in here is Daniel reeling in sunglasses). There’s no point to any of this except I wanted to say that I get off the couch once a week to play soccer in 105 degree weather. Haha kill me.
Anyway. The Nikon 35Ti, a point-and-shoot film camera I found at a local camera store. I don’t think I’ve used a point-and-shoot film camera since I was young enough to get away with pretending I was asleep in the car so I could be carried back to the house (I had found the first photo I ever took, which was certainly taken with one).
Back to the 35Ti. This camera is an elegant brick. It’s somewhat slow to focus, has tiny made-for-thumbnail buttons, and I really enjoyed shooting it. My family visited from Brooklyn for my birthday so I decided to run through a few rolls while they were here. Then immediately continue that momentum with a quick day trip west to Driftwood, Wimberley and San Marcos with Daniel. Got to try the Nikon 35Ti with Portra 400, Gold 200 (more, please), and Tri-X 400 on the pink car at Devil’s Backbone, an abandoned house, Pioneer Town, and another abandoned school bus.
I got to push film for the first time as well, pushing the Tri-X 400 +2 to 1600. Did I get a taste of being pushy? Do I want to push all my black and white film now? Is this me subconsciously telling myself to be more assertive? The fun part is it could be all of that.
Quick note: the auto flash was pretty sensitive to thinking it was too dark and always trying to make a scene. To cancel this, you need to hold the flash-cancel button every time while pressing the shutter. That button is tiny. I ended up turning off auto flash using the input code from Nikon’s manual.
How do you turn off the Nikon 35Ti auto flash?
Make sure the camera is off. While holding SET, turn the dial up top to P. You should see ‘00 0 00’ or ‘00 0 01’. Press MODE to cycle the three sections and SET to change the digits. For always flash-cancel you’ll want to set the code ‘01 1 01’. To save the function, half-press the shutter.
Camera / Film
Nikon 35Ti / Gold 200, Portra 400, Tri-X 400
