BTW, Orange is a mobile phone provider in the UK.

It's the gift that keeps on giving.

Me: You're being an ass.

Dad: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. What was I doing?

Me: You kept asking "are you awake yet" over and over. Yes, I'm clearly awake.

Dad: I just wanted to know if you're awake. Are you?

Me: YOU JUST DID IT AGAIN!

Dad: Who's that girl you're friends with? The one without pants.

Me: What?

Dad: The one fighting against pants.

Me: What? Oh! Jessie.

Dad: She's hot.

Me: Yeah. I'm aware of that, actually.

Deidre and Andy are pretty awesome. They bought me a birthday present which is both amazing, and helps me not feel quite so old.

They bought me a camera. An oooooold one. Behold, the Agfa Shurshot B2!

Despite being damn-near 80 and not being terribly well-preserved, the shutter still operates and the box is still light-tight*. I had to de-gunk the shutter and exposure controls, and clean out decades of dust from the lens and viewfinders, but half an hour of careful cleaning brought the camera into a smoothly-operating state.

Even though Agfa designed the camera to use a format which died shortly after, it's so similar to 120 that the camera doesn't even require any modifications. Even better, thanks to the resurgent popularity of Holgas, 120 film and processing is easy to find. Thanks, Holga!

You would expect such a simple device to be maddeningly difficult to operate, but so far the learning curve has been incredibly shallow. The only trouble I had was trying to load the film, which was only because the camera came with the wrong film spool. Thanks to the way the camera operates, it was very easy to find a replacement.

Sorry there aren't any results to show off yet since. I'm only 6 shots into the first roll. Can't waiiiiiit!

*Probably.

P.S. Does anyone know how I'm supposed to store exposed 120 film? I don't trust the paper.

"When you wear a Tom Brady jersey, you are wearing a Tom Brady COSTUME as CLOTHING." Paul, thank you for showing me this!

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