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why hello, I am tripping on by here today to get back to normal and do what we love doing...ogling vintage goodies...

I would like to introduce you to a German friend of mine...Vron

like her?

isn't she cute?

I found her at the weekend, on the way to pick one of the Beach Cottage Kiddos up from sport, happily minding my own business I saw one of those garage sale signs strapped to a lampost..well what's the harm, I can fit it in and still get there in time...

Now I have to tell you, this was not looking like a garage sale where one might find treasure and there wasn't anything...apart from this old beauty and it's partner.

I have had old camera on my Beach Cottage Most Wanted List for ages. Mr Beach Cottage informed me later that you can pick up old cameras just about 'everywhere'. I am not so sure about that so I snapped this one up, calling my name was she, as I was about to retreat.

Contrary to my regular reason for buying old things (find more Show & Tell at Cindy's), just because I like their vintage-ness, I actually wanted one of these to play around with photography, a past-time I continually find myself enjoying more and more.

I had seen the TTVF (ha if you are not in the know that is Through The View Finder) images everywhere on the internet and rather than use the software that can turn a regular photo into one made to look like it's been taken through the lens of a scratched old thing, I wanted to try it for myself. The real McCoy.

And I have been doing that with this little beauty. Look at that lense, the lovely chunky old detail, the lettering, the precision...all wrapped up in a delicious case of chocolate leather...really makes the mass-produced, digital ones with their velcro nylon bags all a bit run-of-the-mill. Know what I mean?

For sure this is opening up all sorts of creative doors for me. There is something deliciously creative, while not having to fiddle about with bits of craft glue, about pointing ones digital camera through a vintage lens...everything takes on an obscurity...a new foggy life...things are enveloped in a scratchy haze of yesteryear...

This is a dangerous thing to do though, I do not recommend you find yourself an old vintage camera if you don't have much time on your hands...it also makes one look a little strange with digital camera around neck/in one hand and leather bound 60 odd year old vintage one in the other... you getting into strange positions so you can get said digital camera into the vintage camera and then hold this position until you click (350 comes in handy here).