Comments | sappidus: night falls on manhattan

sappidus

night falls on manhattan

Jun 21, 2005 00:52

When it comes to photography, I am an unabashed classicist. My first camera, a hand-me-down from my father, was a Nikon FM2, a rugged 35mm manual SLR that continues to strike me as an extraordinary feat of engineering -- how can it, through purely mechanical means, consistently measure out 1/4000th of a second for 300,000 consecutive exposures? (Of ( Read more... )

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dance_aslife June 21 2005, 05:09:50 UTC

oh a manhattan summer, i've missed

sappidus June 22 2005, 13:16:51 UTC

This will be my last one. I aim to enjoy it.

- Cal

danya June 21 2005, 08:52:24 UTC

That is a nice view. You should let me move in. I would be obsessed with spying on people and making up their lifestories as I watched them in their apartments.

I am a stalker. :x

sappidus June 22 2005, 13:17:14 UTC

You stay away from the apartment and its big television set!

- Cal

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sappidus June 22 2005, 13:25:47 UTC

Thank you! You are, as always, perceptive, and receiving this kind of compliment from you is a real treat. Maybe the humility you refer to comes from my inferiority complex (not so much a "complex" as "truth") about doing any of the visual arts.

And I do get kinda lofty a lot, heh. Oh well. A hundred failures is worth getting one right.

- Cal

kemotion June 22 2005, 01:22:16 UTC

Wow that's such a great view. It seems so surreal for me, so fantasy.

I've been looking at my old film lately and wishing I had acsess to a photo lab.

sappidus June 22 2005, 13:28:52 UTC

I must say, I do like the fact that film is an actual object you can hold and keep and forget about and come upon years later. And Photoshop doesn't even hold a candle to a darkroom in terms of the fun of the process.

- Cal

lily_harris June 23 2005, 18:59:18 UTC

I am absolutely green with envy right now at how amazing that view is. Where exactly in the city is it? Like around what street roughly?

Damn I love the city. I can't wait to go exploring there this summer.

And I wish that I had the ability to work a normal camera in which you could develop your own pictures and feel connected to the moments and the process and such, but unfortunately I can barely boil water and therefore I have had to suck it up and use a digital. But you seem pretty amazing in this area so do you mind giving me the name of a camera which takes nice pictures but can be used by someone like me? Haha.

-Lily

sappidus June 26 2005, 13:57:15 UTC

Actually, I am not well-versed in the vagaries of the various digital camera lines. I bought a Canon S70 because it was compact but had an interesting set of advanced features (manual focus?!). However, for a compact camera I'd think that would be overkill for almost anyone else. But Canon's digital offerings are solid all the way through the line, so I'd take a look at them -- I'm sure they have something that can fill your needs nicely. The "Digital Elphs" come to mind.

The apartment is within spitting distance of the United Nations building (the first view is actually a closeup of its facade), so it's on the east side, on 43rd.

As for exploring the city, drop me a line if you're going to be around in July! I'm not doing anything special but exploring it myself, heh. ("LCab@aol.com" if e-mail's more convenient.)

- Cal