The Bipolar Otaku

It's kind of funny. Well, not funny ha-ha, but just a strange piece of trivia. Since childhood, I've had a number of cameras which my parents bought for me. First was a 110, next a 135, followed by a Kodak disc-camera (I may be one of the few people who ever owned two), and somewhere in there, I had a Polaroid, too. All of them were designed to make film changing easy, and (except for the Polaroid) they were all short-lived formats.

Then, for a period of about 10 years, I didn't own a single camera. Then in the late 90's, another (soon-to-become short-lived) format appeared: APS. I had two of those also, one an SLR (probably the least sold SLR in Canon's EOS line-up). Then digital cameras started to come of age. And now I have two.

So, I have had every single mainstream camera format except one: 35mm, the one that every serious photographer uses. Well, there's medium format too, I guess, but that's more for professionals, and one of those cameras with a (ie just one) lens would probably cost more that my annual house payments, so I could hardly expect to ever own one of those.

And why is is that I decided to entirely skip that format? Lazyness, I think. Loading the stupid stick out film strip seemed to me a useless waste of time, and even the auto-loading systems still require manual intervention.

Oh well. I just thought it was an interesting bit of trivia.