It's been a year since I first got my Nikon D70, and it's been a great first year. 21,992 shutter releases later, and I find myself getting just a little overwhelmed by the sheer volume of photos to edit through. And a little tired of the grind, feeding the constant demand for new work, internal competition with others and myself. I think I need a little break, and so I shall.

Which isn't to say that I'll be leaving flickr. I probably will spend a little more time. I just won't be taking new digital pictures for a little while, perhaps a month. But I can't stop taking pictures. So I'm gonna slow it down a bit, take some advice from others, and try to make some time to get the feel for a place before I snap a picture or two. Film seems to still be the best at imprinting that atmosphere, a mood of the past, and that it happens to be the perfect brake for my snap happy hands is a nice plus too. It'll be hard making the adjustment to shooting a roll of 36 when I've become addicted to shooting 150 shots a day.

My first camera is lost to the yardsales of the past, but the first camera I've ever had where I starting taking pictures to take pictures, my brother just found in storage in Arizona. It seems like a good place to restart. 1/125 sec fixed shutter speed, manual focus, 40mm f3.8 - 16 adjustable f-stop. Primative LED lightmeter built in, as well as flash. The battery contacts are loose, you need to squeeze the body when you want power; and there's the sound of loose items tumbling about when you move the camera at all. When I hold it, I love it's broken obsolete frame like the little child I was.

Kodak Safety Film 5062 isn't sold anymore as such, but I've been told that Kodak Pan-X is essentially the same thing. It'll be very interesting to see how much or how little I'll have improved since I was 10.

Wish me luck.