Ryan’s Obsession on Every Table

By Ryan

Some of you may know that Ryan loves collecting film cameras. This addiction is fed quite nicely by Nanger’s estate/garage/yard sale prowess.  Here is a picture of the lot of them.

Ryan's many film Cameras

Not only does he have more film cameras than he possibly could use, but he also transforms the apartment bathroom into a black and white processing darkroom from time to time: rolling film onto reels in a dark bag and shaking his chemicals back and forth.

Some of these cameras are fun plastic toys that take multiple picrures on one frame, or professional level film cameras that cost an arm and a leg when they were state of the art. Now we’re putting them all to use. Not that we don’t trust our photographer, but we trust our guests to be there and click away at the right moment. So instead of going with the plastic disposable cameras everyone uses, and paying for all the processing, Ryan’s collection will be spread out on the tables and loaded with black and white film that he’ll develop and scan himself. We’ll get artistic picture goodness for a few cents worth of chemical a roll rather than sending them to a lab.

Some of the highlights for any camera junkies:
A YashicaMat 124 TLR loaded with medium format,
A Nikon N90s
A Lomo Oktomat that takes 8 shots on one frame
A Nikon N65 that Aubrey gave Ryan for Christmas
Cynthia’s Praktica Nova1B
A Yashica Electro35 rangefinder

Please take care of his cameras and have fun when you use them.