This could very possibly be the last roll of film I ever shoot with my trusty Pentax ZX-30 35mm. I got the camera for Christmas in 9th grade, and it couldn't have costed more than $300. Until about three weeks ago, every photo I shot was taken with this little guy. In his last days, I accidently dropped him on some rocks at Krause Springs. With a few minor repairs, he made a great comeback. Then, at the Meyer Ranch, where these last photos were taken, I again failed him by leaving him sitting on a table in a torrential downpour.
As he was soaked to the core (no D200 weather-sealing with this soldier), he hung his head, snapped one last photo and recoiled all remaining film into it's canister as if to say, "I gave you so much, and even though you treated me like crap in my final hour, I'm going to take this one last photo for you, sacrificing myself to make a beautiful picture." To my knowledge this is the only photo ever taken autonomously by a camera. What a poetic end to a beautiful life.
Pentax ZX-30
December 25, 2000 - July 29, 2007
may your cheap plastic body rest in peace.
4 comments:
those photos alone make me want to shoot film. the meyer ranch was lucky to inflict the coup de grâce.
Well versed.
quite a eulogy.
indeed
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