{"id":5892,"date":"2012-08-07T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T01:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2020-03-11T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T01:53:55","slug":"warming-up-the-f3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=5892","title":{"rendered":"Warming Up The F3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Left with not much time and inspiration to shoot, I recently pulled out my old Nikon F3 and loaded a roll of Lomo negatives to give the camera a &#8216;warm up&#8217;. It has been sitting in there (cabinet) for a while now and I sure don&#8217;t want it do die a natural death in there. Thank God it still works great!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/nikon-f3-lomo-neg-100-random-jul-2012\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I only have 2 lenses for the F3 and these were all shot using the Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.4 lens. The other one is an el cheapo macro lens that I realise need to be given a &#8216;warm up&#8217; session real soon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/nikon-f3-lomo-neg-100-random-jul-2012\/13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Despite my old fuzzy eyeballs, I still very much prefer manual focusing!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/nikon-f3-lomo-neg-100-random-jul-2012\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Very soon I&#8217;ll have to send my other SLR to the doctor. My Pentax LX is behaving a little strange in slower speeds and I read that many of them (the LX) has some sticky mirror problem thingie. I love the LX as much as the F3 and so some &#8216;doctor&#8217;s fee&#8217; is unavoidable. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/nikon-f3-lomo-neg-100-random-jul-2012\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/nikon-f3-lomo-neg-100-random-jul-2012\/23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/nikon-f3-lomo-neg-100-random-jul-2012\/24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since it is a long weekend (National Day on Thursday and I&#8217;ll be on leave on Friday as the kindergarten is closed), I&#8217;m gonna go burn a couple of rolls of 120. I&#8217;m planning to &#8216;warm up&#8217; my old Mamiya 645 Pro TL. Or should I just use the Diana\/Holga?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/nikon-f3-lomo-neg-100-random-jul-2012\/16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left with not much time and inspiration to shoot, I recently pulled out my old Nikon F3 and loaded a roll of Lomo negatives to give the camera a &#8216;warm up&#8217;. It has been sitting in there (cabinet) for a while now and I sure don&#8217;t want it do die &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link bs-book_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=5892\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[1679,1626,22,792,689,210,391],"class_list":["post-5892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-with-film","tag-f3","tag-iso100","tag-lomo","tag-negative","tag-nikon","tag-random","tag-slr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}