Hello, I hope that everyone is having a nice Sunday so far
We just got back from Saugatuck in Michigan
where we spent some family time over the weekend
Rachel and I decided to take the Fuji x100 with us
We shot all the pictures with this camera, there are a bunch of pictures and there is some footage, too
So I'm gonna make a video that is coming this next Wednesday, about this camera and about the place
I'm going through and trying to organize my camera gear after the trip
I wanted to talk about something, it's gonna be a very short video today
but it's about the way I, or we, treat our cameras
You might remember that I got this camera
the RX100, a few months ago back in Spain, I think it was 6 months ago
since then, this camera has been through a lot, literally
You can see in the outside, the screen shattered. I think is the screen protector
It is not the actual screen that is shattered. This happened in 2 drops
I dropped the camera in Utah, under the Corona Arch. I dropped it in
Indianapolis, I think, I don't even remember
Here, there is a little gap, hopefully you can see it
between the viewfinder and the frame of the camera
that happened after I dropped the camera in Detroit
Sometimes I can still find some sand inside
I dropped this camera in the sand of White Sands in New Mexico
I dropped it in Colorado too, at the Great Sand Dunes
You see this ring for the filters. This is the second one. I had to buy again because with the heat
the glue just failed and I lost the ring plus the filter that I had mounted here
it was not a cheap ND filter
talking about heat and glue
here there used to be a grip where you rest your thumb
while you are shooting
and that thing started to fail in Arizona with the heat
It got much worse in New Mexico, and it was just sliding all over the place in California
So I decided to take it off and get rid of it
It's probably not weatherproof now, it wasn't before
there's a little hole there so it probably made it worse
talking about weatherproof and waterproof
the other day on the last video, I was in Chain O'Lakes and
You might remember that I was in the car waiting
for the rain to stop
at that moment I didn't realize, but I had forgotten this camera outside
So this camera stayed outside for more than 15 minutes under the rain
with this hole and everything. It turned out to be okay, it works just fine
But it's just to show you that this camera has been through a lot
I have the other one, the RX100 mII, that went through a lot too
that was the camera that I used to make all my videos years ago
I kept dropping it because I bring it with me everywhere
This camera is so convenient to bring along that it's all over my pockets, my backpacks and everything
So it's more likely to get damaged
but the thing is, in 6 months
this is all the damage report
It might seem like a lot but I've used it a lot
I've created a lot of images, I've created a lot of videos with it
and now all these things that you can see all over
I consider them to be more like scars of war and
they bring up like good memories, actually
every time I look at the screen makes me think of Utah and
the amazing time I had there, so I'm actually proud of the
scars that this camera is showing
This is not the only one, of course
I have the GoPro that is... the screen is shattered, a little bit here on the lens
that happened in Arizona
Now the 6000 is in better condition, it's just mostly cosmetic
but it shows as well, I've been using this camera for over 5 years
the shutter button gets stuck sometimes
You can hit it hard and it comes back to working condition
the sensor, you can barely see it, but it has a scratch
I was cleaning this with the rocket thingy, to blow air, you know?
I wasn't even paying attention, I don't know what I was doing
probably just looking at the TV or whatever and I scratched the sensor
It was unintentional but... it shows in some of the images
but you can fix that in post. This camera still works perfectly fine
and all these scars, that I like to consider scars
it's something that I actually like, it gives the camera some personality and some character
this one that I was showcasing the other day, the Rolleiflex
this camera used to belong to Rachel's grandpa,
as you can see the outside, the leather and everything is not in the best condition
but I actually love that because it shows the history of the camera
it's an old camera and it's still working
You see all of this here
I think that it's pretty cool, even the noise that it makes when you wind the film
It's not doing it now I guess it's because it doesn't have any film
but it has a very weird and funny noise, like, you know, it's rotten
I love it, I just like it
This doesn't mean that I like to hurt my cameras or that I like to damage them
Something happened today, somehow
This is the variable ND filter that I use for my videos
I have it always on this lens, on the Sigma 16mm, and today for some reason
I don't know how many layers or how this works exactly, but this is a variable ND filter and I know that inside
It has a couple layers of glass that you rotate with this
it changes the amount of light that it can block
now, it got loose
Hopefully you can hear it, so it doesn't work anymore
I might have to buy a new one and this is not something I like
I don't like to ruin my gear, but I do like these little
minor cosmetic imperfections that they get over time
because that means that we use them, that means that we take them out
That's what they are meant for
It's like our bodies
They sometimes get some scars
some of those are good memories, some of those are not good memories
But it means that we live, and we do things, and sometimes things happen
At least I think that it's better than having them on a shelf collecting dust and getting old
Because we don't use them
I would love to know about you and your cameras about your story if
you have cameras that in are not in the best condition
but you still like the way they look, the way they behave
I didn't mention that my RX100 mII is damaged to the point where the autofocus sometimes doesn't work
very well and sometimes I've gotten amazing results because the focus was not
precisely accurate and that made the hole image much better
So that's a unique look that sometimes I can get from that camera
Like the Rolleiflex, the lenses are not in the best condition
It gives me a little bit of a foggy result that I actually like, because there is no other Rolleiflex like that one
only that one has the lenses scratched that way and only with that one I can get those results
that's what I would love to hear from you
even if you want to send some images and captures of your cameras
please do so, just upload them somewhere, Dropbox, Google Drive
whatever and share the link in the comments down below
just a short video for today
We'll be back on Wednesday with that video from Michigan
until then, thank you so much for watching and see you in the next one