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Didn't want to lug the SLR around this morning, so of course I see some guy walking his pet tortoise. Slowly. Ever had one of those moments? Time to buy a small and light film camera.
 
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I’ve had worse (at least to me it seems worse)… camera, great potential image and no film left.
 
The only time I regret not having my camera with me was when I was dropping off some stuff at Goodwill and there was a Rolls Royce in the parking lot. I forgot my phone had a camera. I wonder if the OP had his phone with him and forgot it had a camera too.
 
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I have also been ocasionally caught out without a camera. For a while now I have had a selection of 35mm pocket cameras from the 80s and 90s and I like to carry an Olympus Mju 1 when out and about. That and the XA3 occasionally. Downside of the Mju is that it takes a while to rewind and reload and is noisy whilst doing it. For that reason, I have been known to carry two of them as a "Newyork reload", so as to make life easier.
 
I was sitting in my Bug at a stoplight, stopped right next to the county courthouse and jail. Across the street from me was an apartment building with a huge wave mural painted on it. In an upstairs window I could see two women with their clothes off, flashing the men in the jail across the street. Wish I had my Rollei with me!
 
That's definitely worse than missing a pic of a tortoise. And since there were two nudes, that makes it twice as worse. We saw a lot of stuff like that during Mardi Gras, and you didn't even need to go to jail to see it.
 
My problem isn’t lack of a camera. I usually have a Minox, Rollei 35, or XA in my pocket when not carrying a larger camera. Oh yes, and the phone. My problem is that I can get so caught up in the scene that I forget about my cameras. I would make a lousy news,photographer.
 
I was stopped at a light yesterday and saw a guy in a convertible parked on the other side of the road. For some reason, I thought it would make a decent photo. I had a Mju iii with me, so I turned it on, rolled down my window, click. Flash. I instinctively yanked the camera inside the car and looked up at the sky. Why would the stupid camera flash with iso400 film in it in full daylight?
 
I try to always have a camera with me for "those" moments. Currently I am using a Rollei 35 or a 6x6 Nettar, those practically always fit into my backpack somehow.

Also, now that I almost always have a camera with me, the problem seems to have shifted to not be fast enough to take a good shot
 
A nice M with a tiny 40mm summicron is easy.
 
BrianShaw said:
I’ve had worse (at least to me it seems worse)… camera, great potential image and no film left.
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OR having the range finder camera loaded with film, cocked and forgetting to remove the lens cap.
 
SLR doesn't have to be in "lug around" size. I had Nikon EM and it was great everyday, everywhere camera with one of the small Vivitar wide primes on it.






Way better than crappy Minox 35, cumbersome Rollei 35 and XA. Had them all as well.
 

How do you stuff an SLR into a pants pocket? Never without a camera. A Minox 8x11 takes almost no room at all.Rollei 35 and XA easy to carry around. Of course, when intending to shoot I carry Leica, Nikon or MF.
 
I'm thinking of making up a nice big photo book of blank pages so I can display all the shots I've missed over the years. Maybe just have captions to give people a good idea of what isn't there.
 
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momus said:
I'm thinking of making up a nice big photo book of blank pages so I can display all the shots I've missed over the years. Maybe just have captions to give people a good idea of what isn't there.
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I like that idea, a lot!
 
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Situations like this are why the GR iiix is looking more appealing to me.
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A lot of good photographers came from Wichita. You, me, W. Eugene Smith, Tommy Siedhoff's brother.

Probably lots of others.
 
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momus said:
I'm thinking of making up a nice big photo book of blank pages so I can display all the shots I've missed over the years. Maybe just have captions to give people a good idea of what isn't there.
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The most comprehensive collection, crammed!
 
momus said:
I'm thinking of making up a nice big photo book of blank pages so I can display all the shots I've missed over the years. Maybe just have captions to give people a good idea of what isn't there.
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Not only do I like your idea, but it has financial possibilities.
This is the kind of conceptual art that sells for big bucks at high end galleries.
 
momus said:
I'm thinking of making up a nice big photo book of blank pages so I can display all the shots I've missed over the years. Maybe just have captions to give people a good idea of what isn't there.
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I like the idea a lot. I have a notebook page of negatives I know I took that I can’t find.

Some have shown up as I look for other things.

Some drive me nuts because I want to try a better print.

And so the hunt goes on.
 
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