What was your analog gift?

[darkosaric]

Nikkor 24mm f2.8 NC (non Ai) and 2 films from impossible (as a pioneer I got one for free).

 

[bence8810]

Got a photobook by Yukichi Watabe - A Criminal Investigation

 

[Jeff Bradford]

100 feet of Eastman Double-X 5222 and two boxes of Fuji FP100C.

 

[ME Super]

50 degree day with sunshine and only 10mph winds! I got a 15 mile bicycle ride in yesterday. Oh and I finished off a roll of 35mm Portra 400, shot at EI 3200, watching the kids open their Christmas presents. How's that for an analog gift?

 

[BradleyK]

Salgado's Genesis and Jay Maisel's It's Not About the F-Stop. And adding to the joy: several gift cards for a local book store - possibly some additional works by Salgado and Maisel? First time in several years that a gift of film didn't show up (lol); given my recent B&H order and my stash of Ektachrome, probably a good thing...

 

[pdeeh]

received: minus sixteen by Robin Broadbent

given: 5 rolls of AgfaVista 200

 

[removed account4]

to hardcover photography books
but family members got TLR camera kits ( models you assemble and make photographs )
and a pop up book that is also a camera that comes with paper for negatives.

 

[Sirius Glass]

I forgot. A safe light.

 

[Luis-F-S]

A copy of Way Beyond Monochrome, a 210 Caltar IIE (for the Copal 1 shutter) & a Fujinon 250 SF (if I don't like it, I can always use another Copal 3 shutter).

 

[Terry Christian]

My husband gave me a photo book (Andrew Moore's Dirt Meridian), and my sister gave me an Olympus OM-1n she bought for me off eBay, hoping it would work. It does, and it was quite a lucky gift because I already have representatives of most 35mm camera systems/mounts except Olympus!

 

[kanamit]

I got a Fuji instax 50S. It's fun and as someone who's never used instant film before I'm actually really impressed by the colors.

 

[MattKrull]

I'm rather thrilled. I got a Canon T90 with 35mm 3.5 and 70-210 F4 Macro.

 

[cliveh]

My husband gave me a photo book (Andrew Moore's Dirt Meridian), and my sister gave me an Olympus OM-1n she bought for me off eBay, hoping it would work. It does, and it was quite a lucky gift because I already have representatives of most 35mm camera systems/mounts except Olympus!

Your husband? So your avatar isn't you?

 

[NB23]

Your husband? So your avatar isn't you?

Never heard of same sex marriage?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Your husband? So your avatar isn't you?

 

[Luis-F-S]

duplicate

 

[Luis-F-S]

Never heard of same sex marriage?

+1

 

[fdonadio]

Your husband? So your avatar isn't you?

To be fair, I was a little confused myself, but looked into his profile and assumed he is gay. And, it seems, he's proud of it.

I feel happy for him, for some reason I don't fully understand (even though I am straight).

(Edit: fixed typos)

 

[Fr. Mark]

Randall Monroe's book THING EXPLAINER. It has an entry for picture making boxes.
Bought a house late this year, photography awaits a bunch of house projects incl. creating a darkroom and also severe budget restrictions for a while. But, I have enough X-ray film and cyanotype friendly paper and chemicals to stay busy a long time once I unpack/organize etc. it's been great having kids home from college, too.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

No gift. But I did discover McDonald's was open, so for dinner I got two Quarter Pounder Deluxe burgers and a medium size coffee (which was very good).

 

[Terry Christian]

Your husband? So your avatar isn't you?

Yes, my avatar is indeed me.
Yes, I'm gay.
We've been together since 1993, legally married since our earliest opportunity in 2009.

As for fdonadio's comment, don't worry, I don't fully understand straights, but they're alright people I suppose.

No hard feelings!

 

[cliveh]

Yes, my avatar is indeed me.
Yes, I'm gay.
We've been together since 1993, legally married since our earliest opportunity in 2009.

As for fdonadio's comment, don't worry, I don't fully understand straights, but they're alright people I suppose.

No hard feelings!

Terry, sorry I didn't me to cause offence, it just didn't occur to me.

 

[removed account4]

My husband gave me a photo book (Andrew Moore's Dirt Meridian), and my sister gave me an Olympus OM-1n she bought for me off eBay, hoping it would work. It does, and it was quite a lucky gift because I already have representatives of most 35mm camera systems/mounts except Olympus!

i got dirt meridian too, and a book of harlem renaisance portraits called o, write my name ..
i had never heard of either, and have spent hours already looking and enjoying them.

 

[rockpowered]

SX-70 with two Packs of Impossible Film one color and one BW. Loving it!

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

I got myself a book, "Picturing Frederick Douglass", which talks about how he was the most photographed American in the 19th century - there are over 150 known images of him in distinctive poses. I'm still dubious of the claim of "most photographed", but it is a beautifully produced book, and it includes several of Douglass' essays on photography (or as he called it, "picture-making"). I'm mentioned in the acknowledgements as I had a significant email exchange with one of the authors about the prevalence of Douglass' images on the secondary market.

I was given Piercing Time: Paris after Marville and Atget 1865-2012, a book of photos of Paris.

I also got a pair of PocketWizards to use for triggering my studio strobes. And perhaps the coolest of all the presents was a birdie. Yes, as in "look at the birdie!". It's a late-19th/early 20th century gilt brass birdie. The body is hollow, and it has an articulated beak and tail. At the bottom of the tube it sits on is a small acorn-shaped capsule. You put water in the capsule, then attach an air hose to the side inlet. With a squeeze bulb attached to the other end of the hose, you rapidly pump the squeeze bulb to force air in and out of the mechanism. The birdie tweets and his beak and tail flap up and down.